Last Saturday
It was a good thing I had all the parts ready. Jason, Meredith, Bob, and I had 5 hours to build a quad directional antenna before the t-hunt. Finally, it is finished! Time to hook it up.
Jason hooking up the ICOM-2200H 2-Meter Radio to the quad antenna.
A T-hunt is where ham [...]
Well, on my way to Awana the SHO got nailed. The light turned yellow…I used to run yellows when there was a car behind me but lately I’ve been conditioned by the Loma Linda red-light cameras to stop when the light changes…mostly because the yellow is real short. In this case it was [...]
The church I attend, Immanuel, wasted invested money in a PhoneTree machine. Of course I was annoyed that a machine would interrupt my day. I told the PhoneTree to not call me again. It disobeyed by calling me later thus violating the Second of the Three Laws of Robotics [...]
Date formats are so inconsistent, sometimes you can’t even tell what field is what.
09/13/06 (mm/dd/yy) American
13/09/06 (dd/mm/yy) British
Neither one is really good. So we should all use Ben’s standard date format. Here’s my proposal:
06/09/13 (yy/mm/dd)
Why?
If you make the year 4 digits (2006/09/13) it is easy to sort.
Its direction of measuring larger values to [...]
The San Jacinto Peak was a blast.
Cherise finds a Geocache so I trade a carabiner for a monkey…
We hike up through thunderstorm and hail…
The view is beautiful and so is the line of site so we make radio contacts…
Cherise sprains her knee (didn’t know that was [...]
I converted to wordpress. It’s kind of sad to leave the simple “journal” engine I wrote in 2001, but with my time being eaten up I had to find something and Wordpress seemed like the easiest option to suit my needs. The other runnerups included: Drupal, Typo, and MODx. MODx probably would have been my [...]
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