I did a search on newegg.com by most reviewed and came away with these two. What say you?

LINKSYS WRT54GL – $45 but not Wireless-N :{
D-Link DIR-655 – Comes with a high gain antenna

I then went looking at outdoor antennas and came across this HAWKING HAO9SIP for $90. Will it work as one of the antenna for either of the routers above?

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On a side note, the Linksys can be bundled with the ooma VoIP phone (meaning the router is $6!). Tsan uses the ooma and loves it. She no longer pays for a land line and says her calls are clear as a bell! Since we are thinking of dropping ATT, I was going to grab one from Costco to check out. Newegg, of course, offers a better deal. Do you have any thoughts on this product?

I was struck at the high level politics of the conversation, because a big part of my construct of marriage is very low level and personal. I noted in the conversation that tradition is tradition for a reason – it works. It may not work any more and that’s always something we have to think about, I was not advocating blindly follow tradition for its own sake, but before we do throw it out we should think hard about what we are tossing. Among other things, I think what makes marriage so useful in a selfish sense is that it is a path to personal growth, and its a kind of growth that leads to wisdom and fulfilment.

You can achieve significant personal growth in the ‘cauldron’ of marriage through intimacy, through commitment, through living life and facing its daily challenges, small or large, together (or not) There is something that comes of working together that is hard to get alone, and its not necessarily an easy thing to obtain, in fact I’d argue it takes a lot of hard work as does anything worth achieving. Its when you have differences that the growth opportunity is most available. While you can certainly be married and opt out of that (and not committing would be the biggest opt out, no judgement applied here), its pretty hard to have this kind of growth outside a committed relationship. We are social beings after all, and that’s why I think we obtain the most wisdom and maturity through working with each other.

I’d make the same argument about having kids, it provides a whole new set of growth opportunities that is pretty hard to access outside of parenthood.

tOOtie

Barb