Bring the pain
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2006
A hard hour of Krav Maga tonight. You know it’s a good class when you’re wreaking of somebody else’s sweat, it hurts your chest to breath, and your throat is bleeding. More please?
Monthly Archive for September, 2006
No 857
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2006
I went to the ham shop (“the candy store”) on Saturday all excited because I was going to buy a Yaesu FT-857D for the truck. Much to my disappointment, they were all sold out as of Friday. I hope to have my grubby hands on a unit this week sometime. I hear the Belton hamfest […]
KE5KOA
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2006
The FCC issued my callsign today. I’m KE5KOA.
Wiring up the apartment
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2006
This has been a geek weekend. I discovered that I have cat 5 ran to all the phone/coax outlets in my apartment and terminated in a distribution block in my closet. This is significant in that it finally solves my age old problem of getting wired internet to the bedroom for high speed file sharing. […]
Passed Technician tests
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2006
Yay! I passed my element 2 and element 3 amateur license tests! This will give me a Technician license whenever the FCC gets around to processing it over the next couple of weeks. When I solve Morse, I’ll be able to get my General license. They let me keep taking tests until I failed, so […]
Stuff
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2006
The question (to myself) finally arose as to what I’m doing with my old Powerbook and why I don’t have a massive amount of storage in my apartment somewhere. So, last night I went to Fry’s and picked up a pair of 300 GB hard drives and a firewire enclosure. It’s proving a bit impractical, […]
Burning Man Aftermath
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Back in Austin, yipee! Ah, my clean apartment, my clean kitchen, my clean rugs, my bed, and my downstairs neighbor’s yapping dogs. I got in about 1 PM and promptly went to sleep again. I dropped off four rolls of film this afternoon, so I should be ready to start selecting and scanning in pictures […]
Ozona, TX
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Somewhere in Texas. It’s rainy, my catnap at Fort Stockton did nothing, I’m still four hours from home so I gave up and got a seedy motel room. 1,100 miles at 75 miles per hour is 14.67 hours, easy right? Every time I’d recalculate the time it would put me 10 hours out, grr. Somehow […]
Blythe, CA
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2006
Somewhere in California, I’m absolutely wiped. On the way back home I decided to try the route Google and my Garmin recommended, which was to go over to Sacramento, catch I-5 down to LA, and over to Phoenix. The idea was that it was faster, there’d be less curvy mountain roads and I wouldn’t be […]
