woke up around eleven am today, having gone to sleep at 6:30 am, just
to get a head start on the day.
went to circuit city, bought about a hundred dollar’s worth of coax,
speaker wire & plugs.
came home and started screwing the surround speakers up on the rafters
in the basement here, then started laying and stapling the wire.
get to the next to last speaker and guess what, ran out of wire.
so i stop there, fuck it, buy more speaker wire tomorrow. got the
center, sub and two rear speakers already hooked up to the receiver and
i decide to fire it up.
nothing, nada, zilch. not even a hum. the shit kicker is that the
led/osd on this thing went out about a month ago so i have no fucking
clue what settings are screwed up if any.
ok, fuck that too. i can live without a receiver until the summer time,
when we get caught up with all these other expenses.
so instead i ran some straight over the air antenna lines to the living
room and guest room. discovered i could see straight into the
boiler room from the guest room closet. i could like drop a pack a
cigarettes between floors.
then i start fooling around with that new satellite receiver that
came in yesterday. popped in the latest firmware and literally 2 minutes
after that, i’m flipping through dish like nobody’s business. but this is in
the basement, i want to put this bad boy in the bedroom. i found old
cabling in the wall that was rg-59, not satellite rated, but it was
splitting into a newer rg-6 line that ran right up into the master
bedroom. the trick was to get from the boiler room to that rg-6 line in
the den through the rafters and underneath the stairs.
but i just finished and feel like i actually got something done.