07-12-2026 — Corner the Network

Howdy all. It was a beautiful start to the morning outside. A lovely 70 and sunny. Kitty was gleefully sitting in front of the open window (screened in) and listening and watching the birdies.

I managed to do a couple of things (not much) outside, yesterday afternoon. I had to bring the hummingbird feeders inside and give them a good hot water cleaning. Blasted ants had discovered the sugar water stuff for the hummingbirds. To get to the feeders, they went up a six foot pole, across the top, and down the outsides of the feeders. Many crawled in through the beak holes, and drowned, spoiling the food. Ugh. Before cleaning the feeders, I sprayed some animal safe bug killer all over the bottom of the pole, and the soil around the base.

While out there, I ended up replanting about a dozen flower bulbs that the various critters had dug up out of the bed looking for bugs and seeds. I put the bulbs in the planters out there that have fake flowers jammed in the soil. When it is their time, the bulb flowers will gladly pop up through the plastic flowers, and should look great (maybe next spring?).

And, I then did a weed spray down the driveway and to the road and the walkway and such. This wasn’t much, but I have been almost inactive the last couple of weeks from the various dental-medical issues.

This is my new corner shelving unit I purchased to hold network equipment and fit in behind the TV unit.  It can hold 150 pounds per shelf and has a set of outlets on top along with a couple USB ports. 

I can easily get two UPS boxes on bottom shelf and then various gateways and routers and WiFi on the second shelf and on the top.  And the T-Mobile 5G cellular gateway will be on the tower to get as much height as possible.  That corner is right beside the front windows, and they, more or less, face the T-Mobile tower.

It has taken me well over two weeks to come up with the initiative to assemble it.  It sat in its box, on the living room floor for most of that time, Then I got it out of the box about 4-5 days ago, and set the pieces in the chairs you see. When I finally did the building, it took about an hour for me.  For a person with some grip strength, they could likely do it in 15 minutes. 

Very sturdy when built.

While my legs haven’t completely recovered — I guess it is taking longer than expected to get the prescribed poisons out of my system — they are doing better. And my knees are not feeling as bad either.

Oh, and I even had meat in my soup today. Things are improving. It may be temporary, so I better Enjoy Life