Well today began as any other Sunday morning… Kids were grouchy from staying up to late on Saturday night, and every one was frantic about making it to Sunday school by 10 am.
We made it with no problem to Sunday school and Church was great. I however had a note, and a form on the sound board to fill out.
The form was from our new copier machine company who was coming on monday to install a brand new industrial strength copier. They wanted to find out details of our church’s intranet system. This fell on my plate, because 4 years ago, I built the church network, and computer 
systems. The current configuration is simple, a “BIG OLE Network switch” that all the computers hook up to, powered by a Yahoo/SBC DSL line. This configuration works awesome…. and, is a relatively cheap internet solution for a church.
This request for information related to the Church’s network setup, made me realize that the new copier is coming in, and we do not have a network drop in the secretary’s office to connect it to the network.
I quickly filled out the form, and signed off on it, basically approving them to hook it up to the church’s network
I visited my good friend Ted at StarTac computers, and picked up the essential hardware I needed to do the new “Network drop” for the copier… Essentially just a 50 foot CAT3 cable.
I had originally installed a 40 port Linksys Network switch in the supply room, I new we would need to expand eventually.
The install of the line took like no time at all, it was easy, because it is all “Drop Ceiling”, so I ran the cat3 from the switch, to the copier area.
What took me longer was that the secretary had a hanging plant that of course was hanging from the ceiling and as soon I touched that tile, it fell, spilling dirt all over the office area. Spent more time vacuuming up the mess, than the actual running of the copier drop.
Total time to make the copier line drop? 20 min, total time to clean up the “Plant Spill”? 40 minutes…
The moral of the story? Take the time to move the plants hanging from the ceiling.
Thanks for reading…
Jim
