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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2006
So there I was, sitting in a hotel room in Reno waiting for the parts store to open tomorrow so we can get a water pump for the Land Rover. BM has been a bit rough, it was very hot on Monday and has been windy all week long. Dust, wind, dust, wind! It was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2006
Phoenix. 1,005 miles in about 15 hours of windshield time. I was feeling pretty good (and still do) so I passed up staying in Tucson. This whole “we’re normally on mountain time, but we don’t do daylight savings so we’re on the same time as California” is silly. I should go over to Scottsdale and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
19 hours to go before I hit the road! I had abandoned my solar project because I was concerned with the cost and time, today I suddenly revived it. While I was picking up shipping blankets today at Harbor Freight, I saw they had a 45 watt solar kit for $250!@#$@ It had three 15 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
I got my Yaesu VX-7R today. Rigged up with the 50 MHz extension, I was flipping through the shortwave radio stations from my apartment. I managed to pick up Radio Nederland (very faint), Radio Italia, China Radio International, and some French station. Went outside and picked up 5-6 stations really clear. So awesome, it was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2006
I saw Snakes On A Plane tonight. I was expecting it to be cheesy, and it didn’t let me down. I laughed hard, a lot. The entire audience erupted into cheers when Samuel Jackson said his hotly anticipated line. After a while I got the idea they were going to use the rapper’s anti-bacterial lotion […]
