Tom & Nan Dot Com

Been to a car show, three weddings, got a netbook, and I’m learning Morse Code all since the last post.  I guess since I post once every 4 months I need to work on it a little more frequently.  Lets take it from the beginning…

1. In July I bought a netbook computer.  The wireless card seems like it disappeared from the laptop we bought for the Alaska Trip.  I do like the battery life on this thing.  I close it and it goes to sleep… I open it and unsuspend and it’s good to go again… I get about 5 or 6 days out of a charge on the battery.  It’s a Toshiba NB255-250 and it’s pretty sweet.  Does everything I need it to do, the only drawback is it’s got a copy of Windows 7 Basic on it and I’m considering putting a different OS on it.

2.  Wedding 1:  Daniel and Holli got married on September 5th… I put some of the pics on facebook.  Since I’m not near the main PC, I don’t have access to all the pictures I took that day.  But Nan and Sueann did an awesome job putting the wedding together… It was the nicest wedding I’ve ever had the opportunity to attend and they put it together in a mere 3 weeks… it was a crash plan wedding as I call it.

3.  Wedding 2:  My Mom and Stepdad renewed their vows for their 25th anniversary.  We were there and got to be the only people (other than the two of them) who were at both of their weddings.

4.  Wedding 3:  Friends of ours in the local Scikotics chapter were married on the 29th of October.  Work kept us away but we did attend the reception.  It was a nice reception.

5.  One Love car show:  On Saturday Oct 30 our local scicotics chapter hosted One Love 4.0.   The show was shorter than last year and I got to participate as one of five judges.  My first time ever as a judge in a car show.

6.  Morse code:  The FCC stopped requiring Morse Code exams for the higher amateur radio classes in December 2006.  I’ve since upgraded my license to General and then Amateur Extra without knowing Morse Code.  In September I started going to Monday night code classes to learn to send and receive morse and have since been able to pass what would have been the FCC Morse Code exam so people can’t call me a no-code extra any more .

That’s about it for now.

Well, I got word from my brother and he seems impressed with the movie that I posted last month.  I need to recapture all of the film because I captured it as regular 8mm and it’s actually Super 8mm.  The sprocket holes in the film are smaller.

I had a hard drive failure over the weekend and had to replace the drive in my primary machine, fortunately I didn’t lose anything.  In an attempt to move away from pay-for operating systems like Windows, I’m giving Ubuntu Linux a serious try.  I loaded it up on this maching and so far I’ve gone 5 days without having any problems trying to find a piece of software to do what I would do on my windows machine (except the video editor).  Will follow up as time permits.

We bought a new game for the Wii called Wii Sports Resort.  Lots of fun… We’ve had what seems like ALL of Chris’ friends over almost every night.  It’s actually fun having them all around.

For now, that’s about it… I wanted to test out a new theme that I found on the WordPress themes site.

Haven’t done much with the blog  because I’ve had a lot of things going on…  We did go Geocaching a few weeks back and I FINALLY dropped off the bugs that we picked up on the Alaska trip.

Currently, I’m in Omaha, Nebraska on business and I got to see snow fall from the sky for the first time since 1997 when I was in the Air Force in Germany.  It came down pretty hard yesterday and I estimate we got 8 inches in about 9 or 10 hours.  The roads were horrendous when we left work but that’s because we were out driving when it was still coming down.  I didn’t do much most of today day, but I did get out around dinner time… went to a place called Jason’s Deli and had an awesome Reuben sandwich… roads are a little better today… for the most part dry… but some slushy places on the main roads and a lot on the side roads.

Anyways… I’ve downloaded the upgrade to WordPress and will try to an upgrade soon.

FYI: we didn’t abandon the site… We’re alive and well… just been busy.