Running Cables
It's days like today that I wish most houses came wired with cat5/6 by default. It's unheard of for a house to not have cable tv. In fact mine has two separate cable installations in every room. Last weekend there was a guy going around door to door offering a free installation for yet another cable provider (and they weren't going to share the internal wiring from either of the other two). And while all of these providers offer network service, they're not interested in running network cables (the new company did at least offer a wireless router though a big part of their sales pitch is boasting that you can have download speeds that are in excess of the speed of the wireless router that they're offering).

So today I ran a couple of cat5 cables from the second floor to the basement and another from the printers on the first floor to the basement. I also ran coax to the basement (the one place that my current provider didn't cover though the other provider does). Now I have all of my comms based out of my basement instead of my bedroom. I'm tempted to put a small server in the basement so that I can turn my desktop off at night (though my current desktop is rather quiet when it's not under load). Entertainingly I mostly just used existing holes in the floors and walls to run the cabling. I don't know what the holes in the floor have been used for in the past but I'm not complaining (though from their locations and size, I'm guessing a previous installation of cable tv). The extant holes in the walls that I used were just from oversize holes for pipes.

The other tasks I've started working on are setting up the my stereo and piano in the living room. Hopefully I'll have those done tonight.

Unpacking and setting up a new house sucks :-)