Monday, August 15, 2011

The Saga of The Sewing Room

Heavens! So up this morning, breakfast of toast and over-easy eggs for me and smoked salmon over cream cheese for Kelly and we were set to DO the Sewing Room. We had started this project two and a half years ago and quit in order to allow Kelly to sew the wall clothing for the downstairs rooms. That (almost) done and today after the Guest Potty and Her Kitchen came the Sewing room wallpaper job. Simple vertical stripes in yellow and cream, beautiful and no pattern matching to do. A very sunny feeling to the room makes her very, very happy indeed! She's in there right now as I write this blog entry cutting the extra lengths off the top and bottom of the last BIG piece. There IS a small strip that will need to be put in place over the window frame but that will be trivial. Sure. It does look great though!

We had a lazy do-little Sunday, not ever a Sunday drive to distract us from our laziness. I twiddled with the SFR account having learned there was a Hotspot in Lignieres I could use to go fast...10mb/sec instead of this measly 265mb/sec that is our connection through a lousy 2G SFR account. Yes, we pay for 3G. Don't ask! So I found the Belkin USB Modem...and got a driver from Belkin's site and installed it. Yes, it worked and indeed there it is! Not a great signal but it was there and would connect. The end came though when I went to sign into the damned SFR account. It wanted a password of course and I haven't used a password on the SFR account at all before, I have a key number and that's all. Anyway after trying every combination I could think of and sending copious messages to bad email addresses to see if one would work...I gave up. They even sent an SMS message to my dongles supposed phone number! Dumb, dumb, dumb. The help site was not up to the task either with some damned computer robot girl answering basic questions. Oh well. We will cancel this turkey before we leave and get something new when we return next year.
If we get a dongle again I'll either get a HotSpot type one or a Cradlepoint Router that allows one to distribute the 3G data to other machines nearby.