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I'm so tired. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. There's nothing like a freshly sneezed cat loogie in your face to make you wake up...fast. Arnie was sharing. I cleaned my face and managed to fall back to sleep just in time for the phone to ring. It was Alex wanting to tell me about the new phone plan he found...at 4:30am Central Time. So now I'm sitting here at my desk at work with my eyes barely open staring at the internet...for hours on end. Occasionally someone comes in here to ask me a question or I get up and walk around the office for a few minutes but then I'm right back here...staring, yawning and dreaming of a nap.

It's 2:15 here now. I think I could probably convince my boss to let me go an hour early today. Sounds like a plan....

Oh what a tangled web we weave...

So. today a new phone that I ordered arrived and I excitedly rushed home to set it up. It's one of those phones that let you use Skype to call anywhere in the world for free and allows you to NOT have to be tied to the computer to do it. I opened the box, took out all the stuff, turned my behemoth of a PC tower around as far as I could so I could see back there amidst the giant octopalian mass of wires and realized that this wasn't going to work at all. I didn't have a spare Ethernet port. I checked the back of my cable modem...nope...none there either. I chose some cherce curse words and said them loudly and frequently.

I needed a router.

I bundled back up (it's friggan' cold outside) and rushed out to Radioshack to pick up a cheap router. They had them...two of them. I bought one and rushed back home. Following the instructions on the handy dandy instruction CD that came with it, I, again, turned the beast around, unplugged this and that, replugged this and that, fought Arnie off all the while as he loves dangling things, and, VOILA, it was all connected. Except that there was no indicator light on the mini-tower thingy that came with the phone so I had no way of knowing if it was working.

And then....

Booo-beep! From across the room, the phone itself came to life! IT'S ALIVE! MY CREATURE IS ALIVE!! MWUAHAHAHAHA!!!

I shoved all the escaping cords back behind the computer table and out of sight. (It's damn scary back there! Sheesh!) I know that doesn't really fix the horrible mess that is laying in wait back there but out of sight, out of mind I say!

What matters is it's working, and I did it. It took me three hours and a trip to Radioshack and probably made my neighbors consider calling the cops what with the colorful language coming outta me BUT I did it! Me, the most UN-technical person in the world. Me, who can't even figure out how to connect the DVD player to the TV. Me, who once gave away a George Foreman grill because it was just way too complicated for me. Little 'ol me! I am so proud.

And the phone works...and it will save me oodles of cash...and that's the important thing! Yay for me!