UMTravels

Nothing like nitrous oxide on a stomach with 4 cups of coffee in it. Cleaning is done — final crow placement in a couple of weeks. Nice — a couple of weeks without pain.

Discovered a strange little park this morning — pulled their to finish my dog from Uli’s Meats in the Market. I had the lamb with everything (mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, and kraut). Nice lunch for $5.40 — but they aren’t quick since they are grilled to order. Anyway — the park is between the Coast Guard and the Princess Cruise Line terminal. It was just two post office trucks, and me. No tables, but water access (about a street wide length).

Left the house at 12:45pm after packing up all the supplies for camping at the condo. Three steaks, asparagus from the market, salad from my garden, with raspberries from my vines. Tanqueray Rangpur and tonic for pre-dinner drinks, Curt is bringing wine, Chris is bringing coffee and cash for camping at the condo with Curt — OK, it was just too tempting.

The condo is about 2500 sq. feet with a hot tub and BBQ on the deck that stretches 60 feet along the front of the complex overlooking Birch Bay — your basic 180 degree view, but we are only on the second floor (rather than third), and there is the main drag between us and the ocean — we are even with the upstairs deck of the Blue Crab restaurant.

Doing some telecommunications testing before the boys get there. The Sprint EVDO card is getting -85db EVDO Rev A and -94db on 1xRITT. Lower is better.

With the paddle external antenna, the numbers are -84db and -91db. With the 3-watt booster on it and the antenna in the same place — a whopping -43 and -51db. The final positioning is in the window by the hot tub — pictures to follow of the installation and the condo.

Chris called a half and hour ago frustrated and stuck in traffic south of Everett (where I got stuck as well). Curt said 5pm — so I was surprised when the desk called at 5:20pm and said he was here. Chris may be another story — he was ready to turn around when I talked to him.