The Treehouse Blog

I’m contemplating making an offer on the house of my late great uncle. It’s a small place, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to consider it a “cottage.” Nothing definite, but I do have a cautious optimism for the situation (sortof like tomorrow’s election…). It does have the potential for one essential feature… cable Internet via Kuhn. It might not be Comcast, but it’s got to be better than ISDN… and cheaper too, if you can believe that. Having my own place, and some more room to spread out is appealing, albeit at the cost of immediate access to the peace of the gamelands. Chris would be very nearby (perhaps some wireless?), and Ship (and therefore Doug) would be somewhat closer as well. So, I’ve been playing with mortgage calculators and monthly expenses projections. Fun stuff.

In other news, Axim task list is at 39, the Palm is now sold (yeah!), and Stargate is still consuming too much of my time. We’ve had two NetMRG releases and Doug and I spent Sunday in Caledonia doing amateur radio stuff. So, stuff happening to some degree.

The car is inspected and repaired now. A weld gave way on the front end of the first catalytic converter, which has been corrected… by welding. Not bad, considering. Ridge Road east of 233 has now been added to the Escort’s blacklist (‘locked out of the dialing program’ in SG-1 parlance).

Chris has Kuhn cable internet now. I helped him set up his firewall tonight. Pretty fast. Might just have to move into the neighborhood to get me some fast ‘net…

Axim’s tasklist is now at 30. Really need a way to graph that…

The car’s in for scheduled inspection, and hopefully to remedy the exhaust leak resulting from Sunday’s trip that Doug had mentioned. Fall Break wasn’t very breakish as those days ended up filled with work instead of school. Watching Stargate, trying to knock off tasks on the Axim, etc. Looking into some graduate programs… rather disappointed that Ship has neither masters programs in Physics nor Math. Unfortunately, regardless of the degree, it’s probably more valuable for the resume than the learning. PSU’s programs are all out of State College of course, which isn’t really desirable. Oh well, plodding along for now.

Yep, not much. Chris and I did some walking on Friday and Saturday. Tried some nifty long-exposure-time pictures on the camera. I still haven’t gotten any good fall foliage pics yet.

School’s a pain. My math and film classes certainly top both CS classes in amount of interest.

Got the passwords moved to the Axim finally. Using it’s TODO capability a good bit. Of course, the volume of incomplete tasks is a bit depressing.

Well, not much. The family went to Chincoteague/Assateague, VA from last Saturday to Tuesday. I went to CTI on Friday to work with Doug on phone switch changes (nothing new there, really). Chris bought a barebone system and I was helping him with that on Saturday. We also walked around a bit in the mountain today… not nearly as warm as it has been recently. Nice, clear views of the valley though.