Wow

I went by the office where they moved the furniture around on Friday, and discovered that the PC is on the opposite wall from the Ethernet jack, and the Cat-5 cable is running across the middle of the office, about a foot off the floor. You have to step over it to get into the desk chair! I need to go get a longer cord for that office and run it around the wall, don’t ya’ think?

I suppose this is what I get when I’m not here to “supervise” these things. On the other hand, maybe they should have waited until I was…..

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