One of the first things I'm going to do to the new house is, of course, rip the walls up.

OK, that's a bit dramatic. But I am going to tear out a lot of the baseboard, install cable conduit behind it, and wire the place for networking, surround sound, and assorted other nerdery. In preparation for this, I ordered a bunch of conduit, wall plates, cable, etc. and the first large shipment of it arrived today. The only person home when the UPS man showed up was Bob's friend Bill, who is visiting from Philly.

Bill asked the UPS man if he should sign for the package and was told, "Naw, that's OK. I know you guys." ...which is odd, considering that he has certainly never seen Bill in his life.

I guess this explains why, on UPS's packing tracking website, it said that the package had been delivered and signed for by "Customer Man."