Very busy, fun Sunday

Wow.  What a day.

Isa
It started off with a visit to my sister's house to see about fixing a problem with the AOL software installed on her computer.  I managed to install something called 'AOL Desktop' and typically (of course), my sister *hated* it and made NO ATTEMPT WHATSOEVER to get familiar with it.  More on this at a later date.

Pedro
Later in the early afternoon, Pedro, my uncle stopped by the house on his motorcycle to pay us a visit.  He stayed for a few minutes and I showed him all of the home improvement stuff we have done to the house.

Street Sweep
After Pedro left, i spent the next 30 minutes sweeping the street and sidewalk directly in front of my house in my continued vain attempts to win the war of debris that the tree in front of our house is waging against us.  I lost again because an hour after I was done, there was a messy crapload of leaves all over the street and sidewalk again.  Why do I bother??

Wifi Signal Extended: Victory!
Later in the afternoon, I found a Linksys product that looked like it might help me finally get a usable WiFi signal into the Den:  Linksys makes a Wifi 802.11N PCI Card that has IT"S OWN ANTENNA that you connect to the back of the card.

I picked it up at the Hawthorne Best Buy for like $86.00 and brought it home and installed it .  BINGO.  The signal coming into the house is more than OK (on average about 55% signal strength) and wireless internet access at my wife's PC is snappy and working great.  Nice.