On the weekend of the 24 and 25 of July I helped out in the PVGP again as a ham radio operator. I have a few pictures you can see them at http://photos.mikeoconnor.net/thumbnails.php?album=55 (also for the record I did not take these pictures, one of the flag operators took them for me, I am having trouble remembering his name I will have to look it up and I will post it once I remember his name.)
Matthew Harrison defeated the old pres of the synod, maybe we can get the synod to go back to it’s confessional roots.
This is truly a gift from God
With the attempt of the old president attempt at a power grab, this is just poetic justice. This just might be the start of the path back down the right road, after all the years that the so called “church growth” movement hurting the church with their heretical ways and “teachings”.
Well I needed a new Battery for my VX-5. I went into a Batteries+ plus store and find that they are now $104, to much if you ask me. So I decided to be cheap…
I built a new Battery see the pics below
As you can see from the radio display it is getting 13 Volts, this should do nicely, now I just have to rig up a holster to hold both the radio and battery, and a way to be 100% sure that the power cord does not come out.
Well to truth it really is not a battery as the radio is concerned but a portable charger.
Finally I am off of comcast. When I called in to cancel the comcast account talk about hostal, the person tried to tell me I did not know anything about computers and my setup was all wrong and I was causing my own problem. At that point I got angry and told him 1) I know what I am doing tell him I am not an idiot when it comes to computers, listing that I am a programmer and have a BS in CS 2) their own technicians saw my setup and said nothing about it.
I am just glad to have canceled the service (both internet and TV)
The speed results, not the fastest but if it stays stable it will be better.
6 more days and my Verizon DSL will be up and I will be able to cancel comcast. I hope they get it up faster then by the 20th, I got the modem today, I just have to hold till they turn things on.
As I type this post I am on hold with verizon, I am going to dump comcast and get DSL. Why am I dumping comcast, well I am tired of horrible connectivity to no connectivity. it is every day from 6pm to 8pm. I finally had it today when I called in for the second time today about the outage. Guys solution was to send another guy out to try to fix it, at that point I said don’t bother I am calling another ISP and hung up. I am getting tired of it. Some of my friends on line call comcast comcrap and I can see why.
Just some music I have played recently, hope you all enjoy it, I know I am not the greatest player but still it is some nice music and I enjoy playing it.
For the last 2 weeks I have had the most unstable internet connection, if it was not for the fact that comcrap had a monopoly here I would drop them so fast, but there is on other option, no fios, no other real high speed options, if fios ever comes to Indian Head MD I will be canceling comcrap so fast. I am a very dissatisfied costumer.
For anyone that reads this in MD I urge you if you have the choice go with any one (ANY ONE) else you will thank me when you have a stable connection.
List of bad connections
Wed Mar 17 6pm to 7pm no internet
Thu Mar 18 6:45pm to 8pm no internet
Sat Mar 20 6:08pm to 7:30pm no internet
mon Mar 22 8:38pm to 8:50pm no internet
sat Mar 27 5:00pm to 8:50pm unstable internet DCing every 5 minutes
sat Mar 27 8:30pm to 9:18pm no internet
sat Mar 27 9:18pm to 12am unstable internet DCing every 5 minutes
sat Mar 27 12am to who knows (I went to bed at this point) No internet
Yes the blog still lives, don’t update much, but I have been updating it a bit more lately then before. Working on fixing the links to the right.
Well this morning I am on my way to work. Driving up to an intersection (going maybe 5 MPH) some one in front of me coming to a Yield sign, we both look to the on coming road and see traffic coming, the person in front of me stops, I go to stop, nothing, try the breaks again nothing, shit there is ice. I look to the left, if I go there, I will get rammed by a car, if I do nothing I will ram the care in front of me, look to the right, see a snow “wall” thinking well that should stop me. I turn my wheel to the right, and pray that I can still control the car, while keeping my foot on the breaks. Well I do hit the “wall” of snow, but instead of stopping it breaks, turns into a ramp and
Good news is that no one hurt, and no damage to the car.
I love the hymn that I titled this post after, the church I am going to in Alexandria, VA we sang it on Sunday and it has haunted me all week, I just love that hymn.
The music http://www.lutheranhymnal.com/lutheranworship/lw126.mid
here are the lyrics
I wish I could play this hymn on my Tin Whistle, but the problem is that it goes down the middle C and the tin whistle stops at the D just above the middle C. I guess I could try to transpose the tune up a few steps to the key of D (going from the current G and go up to the key of D) But I fear if I do that I might also move some of the higher notes in the hymn above the range of the Tin Whistle.
It is such a great Easter hymn, we sang it as a Eucharistic hymn on Sunday, and it does fit both well, but when we sung it on Sunday I was drawn to Easter, but of course we should be drawn to Easter every Sunday as in the the Sacraments we receive the gifts of the Death and Resurrection of Christ.
Well today I meet up with 2 friends and we played some music together, it was a bunch of fun. Jess was on the Guitar, and Joe on the Alto Recorder and me on the Tin Whistle, it was a blast, I love playing music in a group.
I am so pissed at comcast right now. I get told we will have a tech out there tomorrow, be home from 1 to 5pm. So I have to take time off work, well I am there from 1 to 5 no one comes, I call in and get “oh you did not have to be home it was the technician for outside” I still don’t have high speed internet. I am so pissed that I called verizon to see about fios (and for those of you that know me, know I hate verizon) and that is not available in my area. Now wondering what my other options are.
Edit: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23220976-How-to-get-service you can see some people tring to help me work it out at that post (I am mpop, like I need to tell any one that would read this site)
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