Time to put my feet up… Definitely. I have just put a couple of phone sockets in, and installed an ADSL modem. Let me explain. The first bit involved installing another two sockets in another room in the church manse. This was probably only 2m away from the closest socket, but that is still a long way. It involved drilling a couple of holes in the floor to put a cable in. This was fun in itself as the 2nd room needed a 20cm long drill bit to get through the wood of the floor.

Then I needed to feed the cable through. This is the part I hated most. Whilst under the house seemed to be cool once I got further under it conditions got worse. The height got lower, and the number of cobwebs did not get any better. The cobwebs were the worst bit – I really really hate them. Cannot stand them.

Once I eventually got the cabling installed I needed to install an OptusNet ADSL modem. This was a pain as well. They have a CD to set things up, but it did not set up correctly. So I rang up and I was amazed to get connected within 30 seconds. They said ‘you should be fine now’ and five seconds later I had a problem…. One where they said I needed to call Optus. This time it took about 15 minutes to get connected, and I think they just told me to try again and it worked.

All in all I think it took me 90 minutes to do everything; quite productive really.