Baby steps

Two landmark events happened on Monday. First, I made a facon and egg sandwich for Wendy. When is the last time I did anything close to cooking?

The reason I was home was because I had to be there when the cable guy came to install internet. Since moving in in 1996 or so, I've been living without it because (1) I've never been around and (2) DSL isn't available on our block. Now that Wendy is home on maternity leave, I had to bite the bullet. Turns out that it costs only 30 bucks a month with no contract. Not so bad!


To get us going, the cable guy had to crawl under the house and up a telephone pole (look out the window in the pic). Somehow, I rigged up Wendy's silver laptop and everything was good. I gave him a banana and glass of water, but didn't get free cable TV. Oh well. Later on, Wendy's cousin came by with wireless router and hooked up my handed-down G3, too. Thanks, Mike!

From massive cleaning to giving/throwing away a ton of stuff to getting internet installed, this homemaking concept is growing on me. Not exactly Dwell magazine material, but baby steps are not inappropriate for the situation.