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Another home-filled work weekend for us.

Saturday I spent a few hours under the house putting down a vapor barrier. In case you were wondering, it’s very dirty and spider-webby down there. I should have taken photos. On a tip from my mom, I picked up a disposable coverall, which was a great idea. As you can see here, I got very dirty. This process completely sucked and I’m bruised and sore today as a result. Plus, I hit my head so hard on a floor joist, Lori heard it in the house. The opening to the crawlspace is pretty high, around 3 feet, but further in it gets down to about a foot. It was especially tight around the A/C ductwork. Shit, I’m a homeowner.

We closed out the evening with dinner with my parents at Steinbeck’s Oyster Bar. The Bluepoint oysters are awesome and the blackened grouper sandwich is insanely good. I’ll eat both again. My dad also helped us install a new bathroom light, which was awesome. After we dropped off the old timers, we headed over to Marcos‘ house for an end of summer party. This portion of the day was great.

Even though Sunday was originally scheduled to be a no-work day, we managed to wake up and get to Costco to buy a new mattress/box spring set and rent a truck from Home Depot to get it home. Then Lori took the lead on the completion of the master bathroom hangy-thing installation project. The woman will have photos later.

I’m going to have a rum and coke, enjoy macaroni Sunday and watch a horror movie.

We’ve gone wireless in the new house, which meant a wireless card for my desktop. I ended up with a TRENDnet TEW-443PI from Newegg after reading many positive reviews. The important thing was that some stated it worked well with Linux.

Some reviewers also recommended dumping NetworkManager in favor of wicd to manage the wireless connection. I did and it rocks.

According to the website:

The official releases are for Ubuntu, but it has been known to work in Debian. It may also work in other distros. wicd will work on any version of Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 and above.

So, if you’re having problems getting your Ubuntu to connect wirelessly, give this a look. Of course, I only used NetworkManager long enough to download wicd, so I never really had any problems with it.

Ok, the real reason I wanted to post this was because of the title.

We’ve got the Internet. Rejoice.