Building With Bay West Homes

The journey of building a new house...

Monday, August 27, 2001

Wow, how time flies! It's already the 27th, and we haven't updated this site in a week. We're still trying to get caught up to "real time" - some of these pictures are a couple of weeks old now, but I wanted to get them up and talk about some of the things we've faced so far. They still haven't dug the hole in the ground yet for our house, so we have time to get caught up on things.

Monday morning is our big meeting with Bay West - we received our official blueprints a week ago, and this is the meeting where we talk about the changes that we want to make. Electrical outlets, TV cables, telephone jacks, etc.

Being the geek that I am, the wiring is pretty important. However, it's not as important as it once was now that I've discovered the wonders of 802.11b wireless networking. I've been using my Fujitsu laptop lately with 802.11b, and it's wonderful! Extremely fast, reasonable range, and totally wireless - you couldn't ask for anything more! So in the new house I'm making sure we have cable drops in the right spots, but I expect to be using at least half of the PCs wirelessly in the new house. I can't wait - it should be very cool!