Things fix/finish around the house

caulking in the kitchen and downstairs bathroom
replace burnt bulbs throughout the house
– fix trim in kitchen and dispose of it
– sand and paint radiator covers
–> need to buy some paintbrushes
– finish front step (apply the product to the right side)
–>now need work on smaller areas that require attention.
–> Need to find another product (garage floor paint?) to cover up the steps.
– stain coat rack in front hall
– frost front bedroom window
– frost baby bedroom window above change table

– finish master bedroom -> closet, paint, baseboards, fix hole
– finish basement fireplace surround
– put up suspended ceiling in basement
–>need 20+20 cross Tees, and 5 wall railings. Total sq.footage is 360 sq-ft.
–> install panels.
– paint railing in front of house
– get a latch for the door to the furnace room
– install an ethernet connection to the spare bedroom.

PAP2 dial plan

It has always bothered me that I need to dial 1 in front of any long distance number witing north america.
Found a dial plan that supposedly eliminates the need to dial the one. Just dial the area code and the number.

Old dial plan: (*xx|[23456789]11|0|[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxx|[2-9]xxxxxx|1[2-9]xx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|011xxxxxxxxxxxx.)

New dial plan (Aquired from HERE.): (*xx|[3469]11|0|00|[2-9]xx xxxx|[0]xxx xxx xxxx|xxxxxxxxxx|xx xxx xxx xxxx.|*xx*xx.)

A shift in my way of thinking.

I don’t even know why I decided to write about this…
I think I just wanted to remember and archive this memory.

Going back to my late grade school days (I was in Canada at the time, so after grade 7) and probably up to early high school… (can’t remember exactly how long this lasted) I remember times when I used to get bad marks in class. Continue reading

Kaiser (Tilt) Radios

Radios I’ve tried:

1.56.21.18 – Came with the AT&T WM6.1 OS.

1.71.09.01 – Latest Kaiser OS. Reception seems crappy. Missed a call at work, and in the basement reception was poor while talking tonight.

1.70.19.09 – Recommended to work well on Rogers and WM6.1. Installed 09March09. Next morning the battery was 1/2 drained.

1.65.20.29 – Recommended to work well on Rogers and WM6.1. Installed 10March09.

Ran 1.65.20.29 for a couple of days, but it seemed like it would disconnect from the network, and take forever to regain a signal. And when it did regain it, it was full strength… weird.

Battery life didn’t seem to improve much. It improved much more once I turned off the Exchange sync which was set to automatic.

So on 13 March,  I went back to 1.70.19.09.  It seems dislike not being connected to a 3G network. If I turn off 3G in the Comm Manager, it just searches for network…

To do list

In no particular order:

– Get the office section of the basement sorted out.

– the Traction Control module for Rod.

– measure power draw of file server computer (all computers?) over several days/weeks

get the CARPC finalized

Get caught up with the pictures sorting.

move the emails back to the Spa computer

Mobile data usage

Feb01 – Updated the weather

Feb02 – Updated the weather, added the gmail account to the phone. Dowloaded 6 messages

Fef04 0 Updated weather, and updated email account (2 emails)

30March09 – Synced the Android contacts and calendar

31March09 – Synced the Android contacts and calendar