Wait, why did I get DirecTV?

I got this whole satellite dish mess because I wanted to watch football. I suppose I did that last night when I watched the Ohio State/USC game and the end of the Oregon State game. I got the NFL Direct ticket and I watched almost no NFL football today. The reason is because the DirecTV made me realize that I needed a phone line and network cable upstairs, and that made me realize that the mess the contractors left me with dangling phone lines was unacceptable, and so it was time for me to mess with the wiring again.

If you’ve ever dealt with a sysadmin or a network admin, you either get the guys who wire things up and leave them messy, or the ones who are constantly trying to rewire things to look right. Really, you can’t mess with it much if you want to keep your computers working. In any case, I’m just doing as little as possible but when there are a bunch of things dangling from their cords, you have do do something.

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It took all day. I went to my friend Greg’s house to get the scrap of plywood, but he didn’t have anything though he thought he did. We ended up working on his deck for a bit. I called another friend, Brad, who had some but the wrong size. We chatted with him for a while. I went to Home Depot for parts and, as usual, they have ALMOST what I need. I finally got home around 5PM and started in on the actual work. I finished around 10:15PM. I should probably sleep, or watch ESPN to see what I missed today, right? I really did miss Lou Holtz when I didn’t have ESPN.