SQUEEEE!

I have Internets! In my very own apartment! With a Zip drive and speakers too! *pauses to do dance of squee around the room* All thanks to the thoughtful, knowledgeable, and generally fabulous Mike. He took 3 hours out of his Sunday afternoon to come into the city with me to install my router, and gave me a wireless card, a Zip drive, and speakers--it worked out well actually, because he and his equally fabulous wife Tina are getting ready to move, and need to get rid of stuff. He was going to install an external cd burner that I had, but couldn't get the cover off of my CPU. The guy I bought it from used (in 2001 or 2002) put it together himself (and Mike says it's quite high-end for when it was made) and the cover seems to have completely stuck together. But getting that to work would have been "gravy on the cake" (as I said before I quite realized I was mixing my metaphors). I am more than thrilled to have in-room net access, and very thankful to have kind friends like Mike, especially since it has been an incredibly busy week for him, since he and Tina are closing on a townhouse.