Starting to get settled in to the new place:

• Got a digital cable box (with analog channels only) that allows my TiVo to work. This was an ordeal in itself as first AT&T told me (on Tuesday) I could pick up and install the box myself, only to tell me that I couldn’t and that they didn’t even have the box at that location after I drove half an hour to their office in south San Jose. Have I mentioned how much I despise AT&T cable/broadband? Many times now, I think.
• DSL service should be hooked up by Wednesday or so. Given my experience with DSL Extreme’s support service so far, I’m expecting good things from this ISP.
• Mostly unpacked, minus 4-5 boxes still in the living room (books, CDs, DVDs). Need a new bookcase in the living room as I put the old one in the guest bedroom/home office; “technical” (computer books and manuals, textbooks, etc.) and “recreational” books will go in separate bookcases. Also looking for a new CD storage rack of some sort, as the old one (which will now store only DVDs) was seriously overflowing.
• With most boxes cleared out of the living/dining room area, my dining room table is finally in place (as opposed to leaning against the wall). With the decreasing clutter, my living room seems increasingly bare of furniture… Need to make a trek to Ikea soon…
• One computer unpacked and connected, two more to go… I’m really waiting to get DSL up and running so I can finalize my network topology. Not to mention there doesn’t seem too much of a point to setting up the computers, without any Internet access.
• I’m starting to get the X10 controllers installed. The first thing I wired in was my bedroom lighting, as I had grown so used to controlling it via remote control while in bed.