We Knew Jack

Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 12:49 a.m.

First, World Cup stuff.

If you are following the 2010 World Cup only peripherally, have I got a link for you.

On the official FIFA site, here are the remaining matches, shown in chart form, with no dancing baloney unless you want some.

FIFA.com - The Matches of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Now, I'm probably going to have my hat handed to me on Saturday, but as of this writing, I think Germany could go all the way to the final.

It's anybody's World Cup now, because the 2006 finalists Italy and France are both out.

In 2006, Germany was third and Portugal was fourth.

Let's see what happens.

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Second, the pre-switch-on DSL self-installation is done.

It took three hours and two selfs, namely me and John.

The main phone jack, where the DSL filter goes, was behind our most formidable piece of furniture, namely the Credenza Of Doom that Danny Lopez put together for pizza and a great big pinch back in 1993.

The Credenza Of Doom is over five feet long, at least two feet deep, and it's made of particle board, which means it weighs just a little less than our car.

So as near as we can figure, nobody has touched the main phone jack in about seventeen years or so; all I've been doing is noodling around with extensions and splitters and extensions on those splitters and connectors and what have you.

All of that spaghetti came back to haunt me last night.

What we ended up doing is clearing off a Brin-sized area of the desk, so I could lean my spotty fat ass over and reach down behind the Credenza Of Doom, and install the splitter that contained two jacks; one for the DSL line, and the other for our regular telephone. I fastened a five-jack splitter into the phone half of the jack, and praise Ghu and pass the ammo, the phones are all still connected.

There's a little more surgery to perform soon; one of our phones is being replaced by another one in a few days -- but that's nothing compared to the entertainment that two perplexed and out of shape adults can find when they're trying to install their own Inter Tubes to save a hunnert bucks and a visit from Buttcrack T Lineman.

Bulletins as events warrant. So far everything looks like it's going to be okay, which concerns me mightily.

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I think that's it. Have a good Monday.

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