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Right now I’m sitting waiting for the quarterly all hands meeting at my company to start. This is my second one. I won’t be able to call this the ‘new job’ much longer, if at all. I am certainly now past the point where I get slack for being the ‘new guy’. Yup. I’m entrenched. Now just need to get Brandy and Amy out here and get the house sold. We moved arond the desks. Slightly less cramped now. We can now both sit comfortably. As it was originally we were only three or four inches apart when sitting. I am at the desk in the back left.
Feels very cramped. Oh well. I’ve got a backlog now, and must catch up… then perhaps stop these. We shall see. UN Broadcasting Treaty seen as severely limiting essential freedoms “Innertube” leaves local affiliates in a rip tide Mount St. Helens: There She Grows In Washington State, Online Poker Players Equal to Sex Offenders What’s a little debt between friends? Some more… Fired for Blogging? — Extraconstitutional Speech Protections Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Bill Attacks New XM2go Devices Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together
The view there is actually of the location for the 110 satellite. The 119 satelite had it’s moment a little later in the evening. It isn’t quite as clear a shot, but should be fine too. Because I didn’t think of checking all three until after the time for the middle one, I missed checking the first of the three, the 101 bird. I actually was outside around that time, just didn’t know I should be looking. I think it was fine though, with perhaps an even clearer shot than the other two. I’ll get a second shot at the 101 tomorrow though, so I’ll double check. 101 is actually the most important if I recall correctly… quite a few channels are on that one. In any case, a quick double check tomorrow, but looks like we should be good. Whew! This will carry us until the HD Cable Card Dual Tuner Tivos come out late in the year. Then it will probably be time to dump DirecTV and go with that. We shall see. All depends what everything looks like in 6 months or what not. I like DirecTV, but I have DirecTV for the Dual Tuner Tivos, not the other way around. (The new Dual Tuner SD Tivos are cool, but aren’t 100% if you have premium channels… the cable card one will be the way to go for sure.) A sample seven day period logging all items with calories that I knowingly ingested: Wednesday – 3 May 2006 * 5 UTC: Chicken Club, Fries, Coke from McDonalds Thursday – 4 May 2006 * 6 UTC: Half pound pasta with margerine and cheese Friday – 5 May 2006 * 0 UTC: Klondike Bar Saturday – 6 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Chilli’s chicken crispers, corn on the cob, fries and two cokes Sunday – 7 May 2006 * 1 UTC: Denny’s fiesta chicken with corn, green beans, rice, garlic bread and 2 iced teas with sugar Monday – 8 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Red Robin Bacon Cheeseburger, Fries and two cokes Tuesday – 9 May 2006 * 2 UTC: Cheddar Cheese Omlette with 3 pancakes and an OJ Five more for the road: Speed of light may have changed recently Cargo of nails spills onto I-95 Archaeoacoustics – pipe dream or possibility? McCain Says “Clean Government” More Important Than First Amendment UN cooking podcast-killing treaty Our listing is up on Brevard MLS now. The listing should start showing up on other online locations soon. I’ve been looking at the pictures the last few minutes, along with some others Brandy sent me that didn’t get into the listing, and I sure will miss that house. :-( I do hope I get to visit it at least one more time! (Yeah yeah, those of you thinking I should stop whining about the house can just suck it…) It really is too bad I can’t just commute to here from there so I could have this job but still live there. Oh well! I asked about just moving the whole house here, but apperantly that would be hard. :-) A bunch of pictures are on the pictures link off of the listing. But I’ll also just post them here as well as the others Brandy sent me. I don’t have the originals at the moment, just the low res ones, so these don’t look as crisp as I’d like, but here they are. If you want to buy our house, let us know!
Friday I got to work at 15:15 UTC. I was the first one in the lower lot. Wow! |
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Tonight was the night where for my location the moon was directly in front of the location of the DirecTV satellites. I had planned for weeks to go outside and look when the moon was in front of the middle of the three. And there it is. The moon from a spot where we could put a dish. Clear as a bell. Basically, this means we shouldn’t have a problem getting a signal when Brandy and Amy move out here and we get the dish installed here. I specifically chose an apartment complex that was clearly dish friendly. The only remaining question was if we could see the satellite from a location where we could put our dish. Yup. Sure can. 
