We got home from our trip south at about 8:30 local time. We lost one of our Akitas while we were gone. No, he did not get out and run away. He died. He was a good old age for an Akita. They do not usually get above 9 years old, and that is what he was. Somehow I feel a little
disappointed for him that he did not make it to 2011. By just 1 day. Isn't that the way It goes sometimes. We still have a female left, but she could go at any time. She is close to 11 years old, so she is already living on borrowed time. We feel our next dog should not be over 35 pounds. I would like to have a Jack Russel. I think they are smart dogs and good with kids too.
We enjoyed our visit down south. The weather was nice and the visit was too. I got to eat at the Pickle Barrel this time. I love that catfish! Many of the friends asked us if we were moving back, and a few said they had work for us if we wanted to move. But at this time the family is greatly benefited by living where we are, and we can not afford to give up those benefits at this time.
But a move back south is not forever totally ruled out. One never knows where he will land on the big Plinko board of life. I am just a Plinko chip, plinking around.
The weather is getting right for making Maple syrup. I am gimg to tap trees tomorow if I can get a chance. We need to make a lot of syrup this because last year was a bad year for us. We need about 2 gallons of syrup. Each quart of syrup takes about 10 quarts of sap to make. So as you can see, it takes a LOT of sap. But boy is it ever good!!!
We came home to about 60 degree weather. It was so slick with snow when we left there was a very real danger to driving. Now the snow is gone along with Cyrus my Akita male dog.
So it is now bed time and I have many things to do tomorow.
I am still looking for a better truck... We got a little over 25 mpg in our MPV mini van this trip, according to my last fill up. Not bad for 60-70 mph all the way home in windy conditions.
Good night from the mini Indiana farm.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Took a lil' trip
Well we had a chance to run down to Mississippi and so we took off. I am down in the big shop at the moment. I have put a wifi repeater in the shop so that they have full strength wifi in side the metal building. Now they have wifi anywhere in the shop. It pretty easy to do, once you learn how to do it. I suppose tight rope walkers, trapeze artists and pipe fitters say the same thing.
It's easy, once you learn how.
Josh and Nyle are running around in here. Phil has built a nice fire in the oil burning barrel stove. I need to but one on of these oil cans on my barrel stove and get me some used oil. It sure makes a piece of wood go a long way.
Phil started up the old Dodge Dart. I told Nyle Uncle Phil had found Lighting McQueen. When Nyle heard the car, it was dark and couldn't see it, he said, "Did he really find Lightning?!" The Dart still sounds pretty mean when cranked up in the dark.
The weather here has been coolish, but dry so far. I expect it will start raining tomorrow as the weather man has predicted. I suppose we will just have to stay inside then.
I got a call today from the lady that has my nanny goat. She had a buck Boer or is it Bohr.. Whatever, anyway the old girl is supposed to be ready to drop us some kids about April. We are going to name one of the new ones Zumi, after the one the neighbors dogs killed. I've still got to get that problem taken care of. I've had a few friends give me some ideas as to how to handle the situation. It sounded like good advice that I will take.
Well, there is supposed to be a football game on and so I think I will go watch it on Phils Big LCD TV.
It's easy, once you learn how.
Josh and Nyle are running around in here. Phil has built a nice fire in the oil burning barrel stove. I need to but one on of these oil cans on my barrel stove and get me some used oil. It sure makes a piece of wood go a long way.
Phil started up the old Dodge Dart. I told Nyle Uncle Phil had found Lighting McQueen. When Nyle heard the car, it was dark and couldn't see it, he said, "Did he really find Lightning?!" The Dart still sounds pretty mean when cranked up in the dark.
The weather here has been coolish, but dry so far. I expect it will start raining tomorrow as the weather man has predicted. I suppose we will just have to stay inside then.
I got a call today from the lady that has my nanny goat. She had a buck Boer or is it Bohr.. Whatever, anyway the old girl is supposed to be ready to drop us some kids about April. We are going to name one of the new ones Zumi, after the one the neighbors dogs killed. I've still got to get that problem taken care of. I've had a few friends give me some ideas as to how to handle the situation. It sounded like good advice that I will take.
Well, there is supposed to be a football game on and so I think I will go watch it on Phils Big LCD TV.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
IPCONFIG
I feel sorry for anyone who had to learn what the title of this page means. IPCONFIG is a DOS command that lets you see to what your computer is connected to, such as the inter net. Or in my case, what it was not connected to. A few days ago our laptops quit surfing the web. This was just about the time I started moving a bunch of my radio and computer stuff out in to the shop. We are going to lay some hard wood flooring in the loft where I had all my play toys. And besides that, Ham radio and tinkering makes a bit of noise so it made good sense to "take it outside."
So I moved my desktop and other stuff out, and that is about the time Jens laptop quit surfing the web. Hmm, I wonder why that happened, I thought. So I started trying to get it back on the net, and of course, got mine to where it would not connect wifi either. Then finally I got it to where I could not hook directly to the cable modem and surf. Yeah, I broke the Internet! Bummer.
So this lead me to spending the better parts of 4 days wrestling with this issue. but now..... I am back! How did I do it??? Well..... a bit of reading, tinkering, thinking,, a lot of frustration, 6 pots of coffee, a nervous break down, a bull dog attitude of not letting it beat me- called perseverance- and determination. I find solace in the fact that I read many many posts of others pulling there hair out trying to get there Linksys router to "talk" to Comcast. Comcast support will tell you to talk to Linksys, and Linksys will tell you it's a Comcast problem. Well actually, it is neither one....
Lightin'......
Just like lighting, this can strike you if you've got a cable connection. Here is how it works.
An ISP (Internet Service Provider aka Comcast) wants there system to connect to 1 and only 1 AP (Access Point) Comcast does not want to see a bunch of individual computers connected to there system. They dont care if you connect more than 1, but they dont want to see them. I guess it looks messy with my 5 computers connected..... So what you do is you register 1 computer with them through a Cable modem. So you hook your PC directly up to a cable modem via a LAN cat 5 cable that is connected directly to the cable line that goes outside and off to comcast land. Nothing but PC and cable modem.. got it.
But before you do this, first hold the reset button on the back of the modem for 30 seconds minimum. Let it boot up, then unplug it, then plug it back in, let it boot up, after all the lights stop flashing as if keeping time to Disco Duck, connect the pc to the modem.
And wait. Wait. Wait. Eventually it will see the modem.
Now if you have you winsock configed right, (and probably is) you should be able to connect to the net. Surf over and look at Google and Google information about why you cant WIFI comcast!!!! And you will see a lot of different posts about it, but here is the skinny..
After you connect with the Internet, this means that Comcast just "registered" your computer as it's client/customer. You are on the "inside" and a registered member of comcast land. How do they know your computer? Well each electronic device has a "finger print" number assigned to it. Yes, it's big brother. It's known as a "MAC" number. It looks something like 12:05:a5:23:df
This is not a real MAC number, I just made this one up, but that's what they look like. And your computer has it's very own, and Comcast knows it. It will let is network ONLY talk to a machine with that MAC number. ONLY ONLY ONLY!!!!! So how do you get 5 different computers on the net in the same house. You got to put up a curtain so that only Comcast sees the original "registered" MAC and your other machines work behind, and through this "curtain". Where can you buy an electronic curtain? It's in your router, if you know how to hang it. So this is what you do. After you've got one of your computers "registered with Comcast, disconnect your CAT 5 cable from the Cable modem and connect it in to a LAN port... NOW it has to be a LAN port, and not a WAN port.. LAN ports are the ones you have more of like 4 or more. The WAN we will use latter. After connecting the PC to the ROUTER LAN port, open your web browser ,,like Internet Explorer. ( I could have said I.E I.E. but that might have been confusing)
Now since you do not have your router connected to anything but your computer, the Internet will not pop up. No Google homepage.. not yet. IN the address bar of IE type this:
192.168.1.1
This will bring up your router. Another words you will be looking at the router setup menu/s of your router. It should say something about the router you own....
In the Basic Setup you need to make sure the Automatically assign DHCP or some such verbiage is checked, or selected. Automatic is nice, huh. After that look for a tab that says something like "MAC Cloning". You are going to clone your MAC! No test tubes required.
So you click on that tab and click a menu button to "Clone MAC". This is your curtain. Basically what this does is assigns your PC MAC number, to the router. Now save setting and un hook from the router. Now run a CAT 5 cable from your modem to the WAN and yes IT HAS TO GO IN TO THE WAN PORT!!!!!!!!!!! I've never used WAN until now... But there is a reason you must you use it..
So you now have a cable from the modem going in to the WAn of your router. The Modem sees the cloned MAC number it got from you "registered" PC that you connected to COMCAST a few steps back. So now Comcast sees your router that has the "registered" MAC. When you plug the modem in to the WAN port it keeps all of the LAN MAC numbers of you other PC's, on"the other side" of that electronic curtain. So now you can WIFI in to the router, as the WIFI is also on the other side of that curtain, or CAT 5 Connect to the router via a LAN port. Either way, you're on the net now. Except....... Jens laptop runs Vista..... It would not connect............??????????????
After several hours of set-reset-set. I thought.. Why not MAC clone the Vista machine and see if you can get it to WIFI the net?" Viola! It Worked!! Not only that but my PC will surf too.
So I am back on the net.
And to think, just a few days ago I din;t know hardly anything about MAC's , LAN,WAN, 30-30-30 resets and so on.
I am sooo Happy!
Ignorance is bliss
So I moved my desktop and other stuff out, and that is about the time Jens laptop quit surfing the web. Hmm, I wonder why that happened, I thought. So I started trying to get it back on the net, and of course, got mine to where it would not connect wifi either. Then finally I got it to where I could not hook directly to the cable modem and surf. Yeah, I broke the Internet! Bummer.
So this lead me to spending the better parts of 4 days wrestling with this issue. but now..... I am back! How did I do it??? Well..... a bit of reading, tinkering, thinking,, a lot of frustration, 6 pots of coffee, a nervous break down, a bull dog attitude of not letting it beat me- called perseverance- and determination. I find solace in the fact that I read many many posts of others pulling there hair out trying to get there Linksys router to "talk" to Comcast. Comcast support will tell you to talk to Linksys, and Linksys will tell you it's a Comcast problem. Well actually, it is neither one....
Lightin'......
Just like lighting, this can strike you if you've got a cable connection. Here is how it works.
An ISP (Internet Service Provider aka Comcast) wants there system to connect to 1 and only 1 AP (Access Point) Comcast does not want to see a bunch of individual computers connected to there system. They dont care if you connect more than 1, but they dont want to see them. I guess it looks messy with my 5 computers connected..... So what you do is you register 1 computer with them through a Cable modem. So you hook your PC directly up to a cable modem via a LAN cat 5 cable that is connected directly to the cable line that goes outside and off to comcast land. Nothing but PC and cable modem.. got it.
But before you do this, first hold the reset button on the back of the modem for 30 seconds minimum. Let it boot up, then unplug it, then plug it back in, let it boot up, after all the lights stop flashing as if keeping time to Disco Duck, connect the pc to the modem.
And wait. Wait. Wait. Eventually it will see the modem.
Now if you have you winsock configed right, (and probably is) you should be able to connect to the net. Surf over and look at Google and Google information about why you cant WIFI comcast!!!! And you will see a lot of different posts about it, but here is the skinny..
After you connect with the Internet, this means that Comcast just "registered" your computer as it's client/customer. You are on the "inside" and a registered member of comcast land. How do they know your computer? Well each electronic device has a "finger print" number assigned to it. Yes, it's big brother. It's known as a "MAC" number. It looks something like 12:05:a5:23:df
This is not a real MAC number, I just made this one up, but that's what they look like. And your computer has it's very own, and Comcast knows it. It will let is network ONLY talk to a machine with that MAC number. ONLY ONLY ONLY!!!!! So how do you get 5 different computers on the net in the same house. You got to put up a curtain so that only Comcast sees the original "registered" MAC and your other machines work behind, and through this "curtain". Where can you buy an electronic curtain? It's in your router, if you know how to hang it. So this is what you do. After you've got one of your computers "registered with Comcast, disconnect your CAT 5 cable from the Cable modem and connect it in to a LAN port... NOW it has to be a LAN port, and not a WAN port.. LAN ports are the ones you have more of like 4 or more. The WAN we will use latter. After connecting the PC to the ROUTER LAN port, open your web browser ,,like Internet Explorer. ( I could have said I.E I.E. but that might have been confusing)
Now since you do not have your router connected to anything but your computer, the Internet will not pop up. No Google homepage.. not yet. IN the address bar of IE type this:
192.168.1.1
This will bring up your router. Another words you will be looking at the router setup menu/s of your router. It should say something about the router you own....
In the Basic Setup you need to make sure the Automatically assign DHCP or some such verbiage is checked, or selected. Automatic is nice, huh. After that look for a tab that says something like "MAC Cloning". You are going to clone your MAC! No test tubes required.
So you click on that tab and click a menu button to "Clone MAC". This is your curtain. Basically what this does is assigns your PC MAC number, to the router. Now save setting and un hook from the router. Now run a CAT 5 cable from your modem to the WAN and yes IT HAS TO GO IN TO THE WAN PORT!!!!!!!!!!! I've never used WAN until now... But there is a reason you must you use it..
So you now have a cable from the modem going in to the WAn of your router. The Modem sees the cloned MAC number it got from you "registered" PC that you connected to COMCAST a few steps back. So now Comcast sees your router that has the "registered" MAC. When you plug the modem in to the WAN port it keeps all of the LAN MAC numbers of you other PC's, on"the other side" of that electronic curtain. So now you can WIFI in to the router, as the WIFI is also on the other side of that curtain, or CAT 5 Connect to the router via a LAN port. Either way, you're on the net now. Except....... Jens laptop runs Vista..... It would not connect............??????????????
After several hours of set-reset-set. I thought.. Why not MAC clone the Vista machine and see if you can get it to WIFI the net?" Viola! It Worked!! Not only that but my PC will surf too.
So I am back on the net.
And to think, just a few days ago I din;t know hardly anything about MAC's , LAN,WAN, 30-30-30 resets and so on.
I am sooo Happy!
Ignorance is bliss
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Sick Day
Today was Sunday. I usually go to the meeting every Sunday, but not today. I felt ill and so I did not go. I did however call in and listen. Nice talk and WT lesson on respect and honor of your brothers. I liked the point how respect is how you feel on the inside towards someone, but honor is what you DO towards a person. Both are important aspects of being a Christian. I suppose you can actually honor someone without respecting them. Like a Judge for example. You might not care for the person he is, ( perhaps they live an immoral lifestyle) but the protocol dictates the he/she be shown honor, even if you do not respect them. But I don't think it is possible to respect someone and not show them honor. I'd never really thought about it before. That's what meditation is supposed to do for me I guess.
It was peaceful here this morning with everybody gone but me. Here is a pic of peaceful.
That is looking out on to the balcony from my Sunday football stadium seat in front of my T.V.Right now I am watching the Packers give the Patriots all they want to handle on the field of play. Tonight, I am a Packers fan. I am for anyone who has the chance to beat the Patriots because I am a Colts fan. As you can see we still have a lot of snow.
But it's getting the time of year to start thinking about making maple syrup, and planting seeds to transplant in to the warm earth in a few months. We may me experiencing cold weather now, but it wont last. It is time to start thinking about getting ready for the spring. This takes planning and preparation.
Jen and I really like the Brandywine tomatoes we grew last year. Some were over a full pound, and lots of them. They were also very tasty, which is unusual to get both big size with big taste. So we are planning on planting more of the same this year. I picked a seed catalog out of the trash today and Jen was looking through it. She said there is a tomato in there that is the only one to consistently beat the Brandywine in taste and size, so we are going to order some of those and test them out. I will post the results. In the meantime, go ahead and get you some Brandywine tomatoes and enjoy a great tomato in 2011.
On another note- I am trying to convert my phone vids to something that Windows Movie Maker can edit. They still make things too hard when a program will not auto convert a commonly used video format and edit it without have to first find a converter, download it, install it, learn how to use it, and it STILL NOT WORK! Phone video is 3gp type. You would think that the tech world would realize that it would be highly efficient if they would incorporate the possibility to edit 3gp video in to a commonly used video editing software. It's probably some violating of trade right for them to do it though. Lawyers complicate life. There will be no lawyers or doctors in paradise. No need for a doctor and I don't think anyone will want lawyers or tax collectors there. I would rather live by a trash collector than a tax collector. I hope we all make it there. (paradise) Just give it up after you get in, ok.....
Game update: The Pacs have a rookie QB as Mr. Rogers is out tonight with an injury. The rookie is really playing well 3rd qtr 1:05 left and down only 3 points -24-21 The GB boys are playing them tuff tonight!!! Way to go!They are just about to score in about 5 yards....
Well, I think I will watch the game.
I hope all is well with you.
73 OM es gud day to u
P.S. I figured out the Movie Maker deal I think.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Update For December 2010
Today we are iced in. We had some snow last night and then ice. The snow is a crunchy-crusty frozen mess. I got the Gravely out and scraped the drive. I had to put a concrete block on the blade to have enough weight to break the ice.
I think in my last post I said we had goats. I took the big doe to get her bred in Bloomfield, and in the mean time the neighbors dogs came over and killed all my chickens and the little male whether goat we had. I called the sheriff and made a report. I found that Indiana law says you can shoot an animal if it IS attacking your livestock. So next time I will have to take care of it I guess. I spoke with the neighbors who are letting their dogs run loose. They said they would take care of it. The dogs have been in my yard everyday since then, so.... I guess I will have to take care of it myself. I am out of options on that.
I recently obtained a laptop. I am enjoying it a lot. I can blue tooth vids and photo from my phone now. Maybe I can get more media on the blog now.
I think I will include a pc of when I went and got some hay for the goats.
I had the lil Suzu loaded. It will also haul wood too. So you see, the old truck gets a work out. When ever this one goes out..if... I can get a new one, Jen said so. :)
I loaded wood on it today and backed it up to the door here on the house so I don't have to go over the hill with a wheelbarrow and fetch wood any more.
I built an antenna for the T.V. it worked really well. It's called a "coat hanger antenna". The plans are all over the Internet. If you need a uhf antenna, then this one works really good and it's easy to build. I need to add uhf to it so I can pick up the rest of the channels.
I am in the process of moving all the ham radio gear out to the shop. We are going to use the upstairs for a bed room I think. We both have laptops now, so we don't need a computer room. Besides, I can't ham it up in here because the kids make too much noise and vica versa for me.
I try to be quiet, but I make more noise than comfortable. I seem to like to "ham" at 1:00 am too. Not conducive to a peaceful environment.
I got to go to MS school this past week. That was really nice. The C.O. mentioned a bit about Nyle from the platform, in fact, all the B'field kids. He made some very positive comments about the B'field kids during the elders school, I heard. HE really liked Nyle, but whats not to like??? He's a good boy.
Well I guess that is enough for now.
Snow and ice today. Oh well...
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