And so today I whisked the men in the house to Circuit City so that we could buy a thing to connect the Tivo to the home network. Rob and I'd gone to Best Buy and he bought some stuff, then when we got home and I asked how the LAN was supposed to hook into the Tivo's USB, Rob looked perplexed. We looked up the Tivo instructions again and Rob said, "See! It says you just need this LAN cable!" while I read the line that followed, "...connected to your USB converter." Rob paused, then put his mouth on the side of his face. He does that when he's been caught at something :)

In order to get the Tivo connected so that I don't have to run the phone line from the Tivo across the living room to the nearest phone jack any more, we decided to do the network thing with it. While at Circuit City today, Rob browsed the various connection things and the cherubs and I looked at video games. Rob pipes up, "Say! Does your laptop have a wireless slot?" "Yes," I said, "But we don't need wireless to hook up the Tivo, do we?" We discussed. Rob considered. Then he dived in for the kill, which means that this post is brought to you by the wireless network Chez Sheep.

Only my laptop is on it right now as somehow the Tivo sees the network but doesn't want to get involved. I'm sure it would love it if it did join the cause; this thing is speedier than the cable network and I don't have to unhook one of the PCs and run the LAN line to the living room any more. It's pretty cool!

At the law firm, I may get to help a new attorney (they hired another one while I was away at Con) prepare for a trial. This is civil court, not criminal, which will be fine with me. I'm not interested in trial work, I want to be a contract person. Still, trial experience is valuable for any paralegal. Although it was a bit disheartening when the new attorney said there'd be lots of late nights and even some weekends in my future. Oh joy.