Hell of a week at LeAnne and mom's place. First the rod in mom's overstuffed closet comes down ...
New swinging equipment rack (swings out for rear access)
My badly in need of update electrical panels.
Project start
board re-mounted to entertainment center
Addes some power strips (the next day)
Completed
FTA dish, front view
FTA dish, side view
The controller. Three boards in there all made by Uddle Systems!
Chris's repeater and the contorller I am putting together.
FM TX showed up today. I bought this one because it came with a really cool groundplane antenna that breaks down into a small package. This pic shows the transmitter doing 6.5 watts into a dummy load. It also has a 1.75w low setting.
Yes, it really does exist
I'm all setup for taking credit cards at hamfests now.
Found on a camera I hadn't used in a long time. OMG I can't remember the last time that the workshop was that clean. No idea how old this is.
LeAnne's award from the NFB
Mega size me please!
Tried to get a pic of the big wagon near where mom's storage areas are. Just caught a corner of it.
The official "rock duane got for keao" pic. This was requested by renee.
Hey, look, half an airplane
The lovely Kelly (Chris Peterson's girlfriend) and Christina (aka "the tuna"), former wife of bbb fred. Click on the pic for the correct aspect ratio. Hmmm, another thing I need to fix.
Doug finds this person inspirational
The new reader. It's nice! Power zoom, power focus, auto exposure, and a laser pointer to highlight where it is looking at. Runs circles around my old one which I had already given up on anyway.
The mess that happens after taking the stuff out of the boxen
The big boxen just delivered
Equipment mounted in new racks. See uddle.com/mobile for a pic of the racks before the equipmetn was put in. Nothing is hooked up though.
Studio all taken apart
Studio as it looked before I took everything apart.
When DSL lets you down because the squirrels chewed the phone line for the 3rd time its the verizon PDA and the Cradlepoint router to the rescue. Yeah a TOS violation I know :-)
2nd half
The Funzone really gave Uddle Stream Recorder fits today
Mom attempts cleanup
How do we explain this to the management company after they just fixed LeAnne's door?
Nothing in the kitchen is safe.
She's really mad!
Michelle's path of destruction
The exercise bike assembled
Price in the front of the store
Pieces parts
Price of the bike in the back of the store!
Michelle's medication
Plumber fixing LeAnne's sink
This is what I found on LeAnne's door when I got to Chicago .. ehhhh!
This is Araceli (Mexi77 on twitter)
Lady being silly at an NFB meeting
Byron being silly at an NFB meeting
New lady computer donated to the lady by Duane (who got from work)
New lady computer donated to the lady by Duane (who got from work)
Michelle ordered chocolate cheesecake at Olive Garden but someone mentioned "birthday" so they brought it to me. Good thing the camera was handy. I did let her have some :-)
Plays "Being With You" when opened
Birthday card from the lady
Main street in Ackley. Too bad I missed the view on the way to Iowa Falls. We turned around. Didn't even make it.
Anyone seen outside?
It is like snowing out there
The replay threw me a curve today. This one took me quite by surprise. Didn't know the ReplayTV had any of this stuff in it. Appearantly it was a stray bit. The recording was a 60 minutes and the signal was very bad that night, multi-path (due to weather probably). The message kicked in a few minutes into the program.
The all night Byron and Patrick call. I actually killed the phone. Look at the talk time!
Old washer. Probably just had a bad belt :-(
Got the old one out
Bringing in the new one
Here it comes
Installed and running the cleaning cycle
Packed in Byron
FTA show / AA booth
Chris and his new shoes. Um, Chris, they're pink!
Steveo trashing me on air
Chris dancing with Augie to the Polka Bob music
Polka Bob!
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Broadcast setup
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More of Chris's new shoes
Rain banquet
Here you go brian
Finally!
Well, it will do for now. At least it works.
Ralf says I should go out and work on my dish today. Um .. NO!
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Access America dish. Mounted but not working .. YET
How it turned out
Starting to modify
Emptied of stuff
How it looked at the start
The disclaimer on the box. Uh, not to pick on you too much Byron but I think that should be leopard not leper (which he also misspelled) :-)
My present from the Byron
A confident job interview Byron dressed for success.
Living room .. looks a bit better now
Mom's bedroom .. OH NO NOT AGAIN!
Mom actually cooking in her new apartment
Michelle in her new room
Hallway with some junk in it
LeAnne's new big empty room
LeAnne's new big empty room
Still waiting for the DSL to start working. It's 7:06PM as I post this and they say "by 8PM today." I"m nervous.
Renee said it was in the basement unused and Byron said "I doubt you have one." You're both wrong. It's on the front porch unused :-)
The RF remote that will one day be my remote mark-that and skip control. I have big plans for this.
Sorry Pat, I just don't see it
Woo Hoo, I got my Win 98 transport copy of Microsoft Image Composer to run on 2k. Only had to copy 2 DLLs.
At long last it's in place!
Some humor from Doug
Had to do this one to make the job complete.
I finally got out the chainsaw and got rid of the fallen tree limbs in the front yard
Yes a blind man with a chainsaw.
Too bad I didn't take a before pic
the humble beginnings of Hot Button. An Uddle Systems program
showing what happens when you make it smaller
sump pump
The 20x20 A/V switcher and the new Uddle SC1 board that will eventually control it. I have 4 of these A/V boards. They were $30 surplus a few years ago.
As soon as I saw this I called the power company
Oops, went out to get the mail this afternoon and found a little surprise in the yard.
Official everyone heading out the door Twitchfest 2007 group photo taken with self-timer
Fred
Blair and Twitchie
Looks like she's having fun
The big meeting
Matt and Keao
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Breakfast at Pinky's Diner in Ackley on Saturday morning .. on me.
He's decided to do it!
He's thinking about wearing them
He's showing them off
He's pulling them out
Presentation of the shorts to Byron
Livingroom sleeping arrangements
A crashed Wayne
A trashed Chris
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
mmmm food
Wayne removed a broken bulb socket from my front porch light so the pizza guy could find the house.
The "me taking a pic of wayne taking a pic of me" pic
"These people are geeks. I'm glad I'm a dog"
The audio setup in the living room
Dr. Peterson
Wayne. This whole trip was his idea.
Byron
Matt
From Doug. LOL!