Making progress on the wiring. I've taken the face plate off of the old phone jack in the front room and the current wallpaper is overlapped over a lot of the cavity. Fold it back and I found a piece of apparently older wallpaper, a shiny metalic gold with some kind of flocked jaguar print. That would be gawdy. Thank you, whoever put in the current woven stuff. It is very attractive.
I've set all of my plugs in the closet, cleared off the lower shelf, and I'm going to put the router and modem in there and run it out to all computers from that point. Easier for wireless reception than from my office, and if in the future someone wants to designate rooms differently, this office as a bedroom, for example, it won't be encumbered with all of the electronics in the corner.
I mowed and trimmed the entire yard yesterday, and my neck and shoulders can really feel it. It's a great workout, so I need to give myself a lot of points for a couple of hours of steady pushing the mower.