High-tech hijinks

The curmudgeon just moved his printer up from the basement.  No sweat, carry the thing up, plug it in, and you're off!  No more racing downstairs to pick up that valuable coupon from Best Buy


Hah.  Not so simple. It (of course) is wirelessly connect to the pc.  In keeping with the curmudgeon's need for a stronger signal for his hotsy-totsy new Apple TV (waiting every few minutes for it to suck up enough information for the NEXT few minutes of TV was really getting old).  So the Cisco wireless modem had to come up too.  No sweat, it weighs at least 6 or 7 ounces, is the size of, well, a Cisco wireless modem, so up it came - plug it back in and you're off!


Hah.  Not so simple. This "wireless" thing still needs to be wired to the printer.  OK, that's a pretty short wire, but it needs its connection to the internet


So the cable company's modem had to come up.  No sweat, it's the size of a small book, but it needs its feed cable, so the coax had to be unearthed and brought up


Then there's the telephone connection.  I think I need a nap.