Friday Cleanup Day

I'm very tired of the lousy internet connection that I get at the shop.  I hop onto my next door neighbor's wi-fi signal when I can, but it is a dirty signal and drops every 10 minutes or so.  Not fun.  Yesterday I wasted more than an hour just trying to get connected.  I finally ran out of patience and phoned Comcast to get a true internet connection.  It will cost me $60/month for a business connection, but it would be something that I and my Manager have been wanting for a while.  I'm going to go ahead and sign the digital contract this morning and arrange for installation.  That means that today will be a clean-up day.  I need to get my little slip of office space cleaned up because it is one of four points that I want available for my internet connection.  As I recall (and if I take my home business installation as a template) they will install the cabling and the modem which can support up to five connections.  I think, at that point though, it will be up to me to run cable from the modem to each of the four locations that I want to be able to have computer access from.  I will be buying cable.  I like the fact that it will be a hardwired connection.  I could buy a wireless modem, but I have always preferred hardwire for security. 

I'll be buying a lot of cable to connect our
computers to the new modem. 

So, today I will dress down.  I have been assured that I will not have to go onto the sales floor, so I can dress in stretch pants and a t-shirt for the purposes of cleaning like a madwoman.  I will have one day to get my area fixed up and that's not a lot of time.  The one thing I really want to do is get my lightbulbs replaced so that I have light again.  That is one of the hardest things in my little area - the ladder is huge to get up the 12+ feet to my ceiling and my space is extremely cramped.  I'm not even sure that it will fit at all, but I have to try.  I need light!  Then I can start working on the website again, while I seek out a good programmer to develop an upgraded website for my shop.  I need to find a few good people and get some quotes so that I can budget that for 2011.  I hope you accomplish a lot today, I know I'll be focused on doing that :-)