Current location: the living room downstairs.

I’ve got my laptop computer that Benthic Creatures gave to me to do my job with. I’m sitting on the couch, listening to “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus on Spinner, staring at the cat on the piano, chatting with my sister on Instant Messenger, and generally enjoying the wireless network that I’ve just finished setting up.

Yeah, baby, yeah. The geek groove trucks on.

Of course, there are a few things I should probably have done differently. I should have hooked up the rest of our computers to the 8-port hub along with the wireless access point instead of to the DSL router. That would probably have made it easier to get the wireless-up laptops to see our LAN. But I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got. For now. Tomorrow will probably be different.

My only regret is that the laptop computer is running Windows XP. If I had my druthers, it’d be running Linux, of course, but there’s probably a limit to how much I can mess around with this work-issued laptop.

We went to the library last week, and I poked around in the marine aquarium section. I’ve been toying with the idea of a marine aquarium for a few months now, and since we went to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, the idea has a firmer grip on my imagination. I checked out two books, and read through them both. And it seems that while a marine aquarium — or a reef aquarium, which would be even cooler — would be a bad idea right now. They need daily maintenance, especially in their early months, and with this job of mine that’s going to keep me on the road 50% of the time or so over the next couple of months, daily maintenance just isn’t going to work out.

Maybe I can make a goldfish bowl work. Or maybe some sea monkeys.

My friend Purplkat pointed me at this webcast station, KNR’s Old Time Radio, streaming from Live365. I remember back when I was a kid, I used to listen to some of those old radio shows that KSFO would play on Sunday nights as part of some “old times” feature. I even had a few old episodes of Suspense and Dimension X on tape. Right now I’m listening to an episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes… very, very cool.

Nothing else to report. It’s time to get to bed.