So I went into Frys Electronics with $3000 cash in my pocket, but managed to come out with $1900. I bought me a HD projector, projector mount, projector screen, 25 ft DVI cable, and a DVI to HDMI adapter. Shortly after getting home, they were hanging from the ceiling 
100” screen for about $1100!!! Cables will be run through the ceiling/wall soon.
Russ and I were finally able to get some cables run here in the house. In the end I ended up giving him a color laser printer that I had for his help, and I provided all the materials. We ran 19 Cat5e cables, 18 of which are for data, the other one is for sound so that I can listen to music from my computer in the office in the living room. Here is a breakdown of where all the ports went: 1 in the bedroom, 6 in the blue room for servers, 3 in the living room, 2 in the dining room, 2 in the garage, and 4 in the arcade. Also in the bedroom I pulled the old phone jack and coax that were coming out of the wall and put all of them in the same plate as the network, ignore the numbers, I reused plates.
Then we have the living room, with the three network ports, and two RCA connectors for left and right audio.
And we have the two in the dining room, which are next to pre-existing cable and phone.
And the garage.
And two of the four that are in the arcade, you can prolly guess what the other two look like.
And where do all these cables go? To my patch panel and to the switches, I’m using two D-Link switches, a 24 port, and a 16 port. I have plans to get a 24 port gigabit switch soon, I have a small 5 port, but my desktop, servers, PS3 and several other things support gigabit.
I know, I know…Why? Why not, don’t ask why I did this, I like to have lans and hate to have cables everywhere, and the arcade machines need to connect to the network as well. I do have several access points as well.
Who will win? Well, the coke machine did. It ended up taking a chunk out of the coffee table when I moved it into the house and it fell over. But anyway, I will let the pics do the talking.
Well, I’m the proud new owner of 2 new houses! They had a 2 for 1 deal at the title office! Anyone need to rent a house? Just kidding, I had to buy Chester a new house because he somehow managed to burn it down destroy his again.
I got the truck payed off today, so no more payments on any loans…for now. The money that I was putting towards the truck will now go towards my house payment. I should close on it sometime this month, and needless to say…I’m quite excited!!!
Just wondering, how many people actually read and keep up with the site. I know Trevor, Cole, and Tylor do, but is there anyone else? Just leave a comment. There may be a reward for it later!
