Wednesday, May 23, 2007

 

Wireless home networking


I was asked by my old boss at work for wireless home network issue he is having. He wants to be able to sit in his backyard and still access his network. I originally recommended getting a wireless range extender or relay which essentially just takes a signal and boost it. So imagine it like adding another lilly pad between you and the land so you can hop there and then make it to land. Relays though have to be in range enough of your wireless router to boost it. Depending on how far away your going to be or how many walls are in the way you could end up needing more then one. So while search for them I found these. Pretty cool little devices that plug in your electrical outlet and your router and then you plug the other end in the area you want to get a wireless signal. So as long as he has an outlet or extension cord that can run outside he should be all set. Pretty cool little devices.

Monday, May 14, 2007

 

Congrats to Sarah and Dave

My sister and her boyfriend, Dave, got engaged on Friday night. They are going to be getting married on the same day as my parents and my grandparents. I guess we know if Sarah and Dave have a daughter which day she will be getting married. They will be in Chicago this weekend though sounds like Friday night and Saturday afternoon/morning are your only times to catch them. After that they are going out to my parents house.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

 

Today


So I biked to work again today. Took a different route which I thought was faster but ended up taking the same amount of time. Only downside is that there a few more slight inclines.
On Tuesday I have class at the Lincoln Park campus. I got to class earlier and since I usually don't get home from class till after 9:30, I tried to eat a snack prior. I went into McDonalds and orders one of those snack wraps. While standing there I looked to my right and saw this letter taped to the wall. Sorry its such a crappy picture it was from my cell phone. Basically is says to keep your receipt otherwise they won't give you your food unless you show your receipt. However there were numerous mispelling. Some words needed to be switched around. Just like as if I wrote it myself. They fixed it by crossing the bad parts and writing what it should say about it. Then I noticed another one on another pillar. Same issue. The dumb part is that is was just a normal piece of yellow paper taped to the wall. I could not believe that they would not spend the extra $0.20 to fix it and print new piece. I am not always a person that believes image is everything but sometimes if you let even the small things slip then I will say that it just doesn't look good.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

 

Bike to work

So I finally did my first bike to work for this year. Since I am working out near O'hare my bike trip is actually a little more then double. I googlemapped it and it was about 11.7 miles. So not a bad day of excercise yesterday with 23.4 miles. Thats alot for me. Today I did not bike in because I was tired and because I have school tonight. The trip to and from work only took one hour each way. Which my normal commute is around 45mins to one hour.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

 

BeerFest

I will be out of town this weekend so I will be missing it however if anyone goes please let me know how it is. Sounds like hell of a good time

BeerFest only comes once a year to Chicago. I had never heard of it before. There is about 100 brewery's that come and if you purchase tickets beforehand I believe its about $37.

If you click on the tickets section my favorite comment is "tickets include unlimited beer sampling." mmmm that sounds good.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

 

LEAN MEAN working machine

So this project LEAN that I was bitching about last week is not to bad. So far I have met a whole bunch of people who I had talked to on the phone but never met in person. The other advantage of being able to use other people as resources. The point is to cross train which has been kept to a limit at this point.

Also I have been trying to eat better and use the stairs in order to lose some weight to get more LEAN.

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