
So,I'm getting help setting up a wireless network in the house and having fun bribing geek friends with food. I find I really enjoy trading my skills for others, since I really try to do it right. Grilled lobster with chives, ginger grilled scallops and tuna steak, roasted asparagus with balsamic vinaigrette for siggy on Saturday night. I I was under the mistaken impressions that when comcast said they would get us broadband cable that meant they would hook us up right to the computer, and we'ld be good to surf....Wrong...then I thought that I would ask my friends what I needed to get to hook up a wireless router and all that. Corwin helped me with that(I owe you cookies, do you like chocolate or not?) and told me what to buy. Off I go to Compusa where I get seduced by the words "Plug-n-play" which then betrayed its promises, because it was certainly not that easy. And I had been feeling so technobutch up until that point. Desperate sries of help go out, and that's how siggy got here with bridget on saturday night. All was going well until Mark trashed it all by casually mentioning"hey, how hard would it be to hook up the Linux box too?" This is where things when to hell, and I have to return the usb adapter and get an ethernet adapter. Luckily siggy sent me the actual part # and I printed out the spec page to bring with me to compusa. I wonder if morels are in season yet. Morels sauteed with shallots, a little cream, served over papardelle. That would be fun, and he wasn't into red meat this week. BTW, this is a shameless selfadvert of my techno cluelessness and culinary strength in an attempt to have people lined up the next time this gets screwed up and siggy is too busy to help me.