My Nephew and Son

This is a picture of my nephew holding my son almost 14years ago! They both live with me now, and we are all three students.

My Friend's Son Enjoying My Pool.

Coggan was enjoying my pool last summer!

My Swimming Pool

Here is my swimming pool in my backyard. I am ready for summer, so I'm posting it in hopes that summer will be here soon. I am definitely a warm-weather person.

Wireless Home Network

I never saw the need for paying for Internet service since the University of Illinois graciously provides that service to its employees, so I took the bad with the good, had free service and paid the price by waiting for the very slow download speed of dial-up. That all changed last week.

My nephew decided to move up to Champaign County and live with me so he could finish his college degree. He is taking 5 total classes, two of which are online, and I'm taking 3 classes, one of which is online, and my son is certain he needs online constantly for whatever reason he can come up with, so I knew I had to make a change.

I have since been wired for cable Internet for only 30 dollars a month. I can handle that price since it is a necessity now. Then we went to Circuit City and bought a wireless home-network so we can all be online at the same time. With rebates, the total of the wireless home-network is about 84 dollars. Still good on a single income! It is working out really well for us. We have a wired desktop, a wireless desktop, and my laptop all connected to the network. My IT person has helped make sure it is a secure network to avoid any unfortunate unpleasantries.

The one problem we've run into is printer sharing. I have printed out many pages of instructions on this, but nothing seems to help. I print fine from the wired desktop, but I cannot seem to print from the wireless desktop even after setting both desktops with the same settings under printers and faxes on the control page. I will type later if I find a solution to this problem.

In the meantime, who would have thought I would have a wireless home network? Never in a million years.

Enjoy your weekend!

Debbie