I've been forced to re-build my entire home network from the ground up over the past week. While I've appreciated the opportunity to start 'clean' as it were, and being able to structure things better, it's also been rough trying to do so in a fairly compressed timeframe in/around my day job. Because it's not just getting a new router online and hooking up my laptop; it's somewhere between 150-200 smart home devices that are all interconnected using a combination of wi-fi, bluetooth, zigbee, and z-wave.
I don't mind telling you that it's been frustrating and exhausting, and I hate that I have to be my own IT department.
(I'm certainly not an IT specialist, but I do think I'm more adept with this kind of thing than most people and I seriously have no idea
who aren't technically savvy manage to operate their homes any more. I mean, you can hardly find a new appliance that doesn't try forcing you to connect to the internet any more.)
In any event, since I started this week's blogging with Don Martin, I figure I'll end the week with him as well with just a small sample of his onomatopoeia representing what dealing with all this technology feels like...
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