Wireless
Around this time last year, I wrote about how getting cable internet service at home changed my habits. At the time, I was using a desktop computer in a corner of my office/guest bedroom/sewing room, so while my connection was much faster, it was still rooted to one spot in the house, and only one person could use it at a time.
Now, we have made the next big step of setting up a wireless network, which it seems has made just as big a change in our computer habits. First, we can both be online at the same time, which means we aren’t rushing to finish up whatever we’re doing as quickly as possible. Second, the connection is portable, so I use it for different things. For example, if I’m cooking and need to look up a recipe I found online, I just set the laptop up on the dining room table. (I won’t bring the laptop in the kitchen because I’m a messy cook.) Third, I keep my laptop in a corner downstairs, where I spend more time, so I’m more likely to turn it on and chat with my brother while watching TV, or blog about something I read in the paper while I’m eating breakfast. (Obviously this isn’t happening much with this blog, but more so with the blog I contribute to for my local newspaper’s web site.)
And perhaps most importantly, we have become those people who log on to sports web sites while watching the game. I’ve always wondered who those people were, and now I know. They are us.
I thought we would just use it to monitor games we weren’t getting on TV, but yesterday during Superbowl 41.5, we had the game on TV and the stats on the laptop.
