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Byron at nfb audio table |
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visiting byron I get to sit in the pink
chair of honor |
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I finally signed her cast 8 days before it gets removed |
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they got me wired up at the sleep clinic |
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8/2 update. this is how it looked when we left
on Sunday a day after we
were supposed to be out
she says she is going back! |
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last one. she thinks she is going back tomorrow. |
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this is how she left things |
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10:30pm when we walked out |
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well this is what her bedroom is looking like
at 8:45pm the day AFTER she was supposed to
be out of the apartment |
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I wish I was good enough to torch this apart
and weld it into the frame for a 1/2 scale
radio controlled vehicle.
I wanna build a MALP! |
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oops |
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7/31 update |
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Hey I found this in Lady's desk. Should I be wondering where
she has been going out to at night?? |
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I finally stepped in and started boxing up stuff in her bedroom.
This is how it looks as of 10:40PM and I give up. There are 4 pieces of
furniture that need to come out of that room and none are really accessible.
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Who here thinks mom's room is ready for movers tomorrow at 9AM? |
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It's not as good as Stephanie's but its was only $19 |
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Byron finally finds an apartment he can afford |
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My corner has been scaled down as
we prepare to get out of here |
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Pic mom took of Byron and me in matching back belts standing
by the trailer about to start unloading. Nice shot of her
thumbnail eh? |
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We bought a pair of these laptop stands today at Wal Mart.
Byron already found a use for his. |
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Someone is sleeping in lady's bed (and snoring). |
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It's almost ready to go |
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Assembled and connected |
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It's together. Took a while as everything was small and
several of the parts were unfamiliar to me |
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New minibox system as it arrived in peices parts |
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ewwwww! |
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Strange sense of humor some sellers have |
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Awww, its duane and twitchie |
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The official "what I got at the hamfest" pic |
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Hey, look, its the big clock on the wall! |
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The perfect buffet to hit after a hamfest |
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Is this guy an Indian (native American variety)? |
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Wow, that's a big pair of headphones |
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I think mom is starting to lose it |
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Custom made spicy ranch (thanks Lady) |
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Mom's 1st room |
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Mom's 2nd room |
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Blair and Byron laptops at NFB meeting |
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How the hell did the Pinacle usb tv tuner manage to do this????
Ok, wasn't the pinacle. Turns out there is a key sequence
that does this that I hit by accident. |
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Tested DTMF boards durring Wayne's show. Uddle Systems case
is all ready to go to Chicago. Credit card terminal, shipping
supplies, boards in cases, boards without cases, relay boards |
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Fan that I made installed |
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window open from the top with completed board in down position |
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Here you go Renee, the foot lockers you were looing for. Ooh,
looking at the pic I just noticed they shrank! |
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The 1st one installed |
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Productivity flowing. Been meaning to do this for years. This will allow the blinds and the curtains to be lowered from the
top. This will let the windows be open from the top. |
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Yes, I tried to get Access America with this |
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How's this for a stack of Barixen? |
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for rob. About $800 worth of barix streamers. I also have 2
other $400 units (announcicom) |
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Digital storage scope |
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Ok now wayne is done |
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Looks like chris is done |
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Mmm, meat! |
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Rebecca, Kelly's friend |
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chris's girlfriend Kelly |
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Big bin sale at Wal Mart. $5.50 for huge ones and $4 for big
ones. Great Deal. There are 2 more inside you can't see.
Spent $46. |
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muncheis for the secret show |
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The new embedded computer. |
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Fedex just showed up. Oh boy another mixer. This makes me
think of doing a show. Noooo, that's just crazy talk.
/me goes back to giving up and quitting. |
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This bit of productivity (4-21) is dedicated to Danny Mac,
whose show I was listening to when I accomplished it. |
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new studio rack. Those boxes to the right are the rack shelves |
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new studio rack |
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Bruce, who I ride to Buddhist meetings with |
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Talking on irc at the hamfest |
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Joanne |
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Doesn't this look like Hugo from lost??? He says he gets that all the time |
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Steveo and mike |
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Cane convention |
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:-) |
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Mom birthday lunch at OCB |
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Linux humidifier! |
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Pre-LTUAE ocb with byron, duane and lady |
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Lady in the "Fred" wheelchair at the sleep clinic |
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What else Michelle did |
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What Mickelle did |
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My Thanksgiving dinner. You may start
feeling sorry for me now |
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Bonanza's mascott |
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The Big Buddha (such as it is) |
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Sale on soda at Wally World |
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Say it onion rings! |
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Duh, huh? I've pounded on the drive as hard as I can and
I can't get it to go in the usb slot the other way :-) |
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mom left me stocked for the winter |
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Oh Jeff! |
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"Hey let me out of here. I feel like Keao trapped in the braille jail" |
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NFB choir |
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Don't I look sharp... NOT} |
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Byron looks good |
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Byron gets a back rub from Kristy |
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Byron has had enough |
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NFB |
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Shutgun mic for picking up the crowd |
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Audio table |
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Mackie 1402 |
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a group of Tibet Buddhists I met at Frys |
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Well the kitty is packed an ready to go. |
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Look KeAnne, it's my dark cloud |
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What's left |
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I'm not worthy!!! |
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I feel like a puppet |
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they done wired me up |
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that's one hell of a wheelchair |
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LeAnne says "it just happened" in the middle of her washing the dishes. It was twice as high as this before I managed to get to the camera. |
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Drool |
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Eee PC streaming the 5/10/08 NFB meeting just running on batteries and using the restaurant's wifi. I was bored. And that's my lunch next to it. |
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Testing Eee PC, mobile speaker and 12v cord for the Eee. |
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February 17, 2009 is coming! |
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Even more |
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More stuff I hung up |
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This was done almost 25 years ago and I gave it to the lady as a present |
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Stuff I hung for LeAnne |
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Wow look what the lady brought me for the show! |
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Three orders shipping in one day. Another milestone for Uddle Systems! |
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Here you go ric just for you! |
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Whew, emptied one |
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A new home for Byron |
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the 2nd one. |
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lots of work to do |
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Byron says its his TARDIS |
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One garbage can had been removed before I took the pic. Like $100/month to store this stuff??? |
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The guy who delivered the things. Mike, I think |
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Taking it off the truck |
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The taking down the forklift |
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Delivery of mom's two pod storage thingies |
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Uh oh, we came home to this. Looks like my sister had a bad day! |
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What do you mean I have to move for Byron? |
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Hey, Byron, we got something warm for your bed |
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Mom dumped the peanuts from Lonestar right into her purse! |
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Official Lady and Blair birthday pic. Mom couldn't hold the
cam steady so I had to hold it out at arms length myself. |
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The gang who showed up to sing happy birthday to LeAnne. She crawled
under the table. |
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Lady at Lonestar |
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And after all the work is done Michelle comes back to put the magnets on and
take credit for all the work :-) |
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Waah, the new one is smaller! |
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Getting ready |
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Hey the food has to go somewhere |
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Still works but the gasket was shot and all the brackets were
missing from the doors. |
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Old fridge I convinced the management company to replace |
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Router, modem, switch, access point, voip |
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The headend at the new lady apartment |
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Squoze that kitty! |
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The lady headend near completion |
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The kitty has found LeAnne's end table |
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Ok, Michelle, TAKE IT! |
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My sister stopping in for a visit durring the show |
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The lady station |
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The Blair station |
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Living Room |
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Living Room |
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bedroom |
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Bedroom |
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Bedroom |
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Bedroom |
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Ok, maybe this is a bit silly |
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The unit itself |
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The new H2 is here .. the new H2 is here ..
I'm someone! (apologies to Steve Martin). |
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The Big Buddha .. in pieces. After a new case and a programming
mod it will be going to Byron |
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It's finished! |
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The Uddle SC1 board. This is a swiss army knife board that connects to a
PC serial port or external modem and can control or monitor stuff. |
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Onion Rings! |
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The big moment |
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The coolest beverage serving area I've ever seen |
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Matt got pissed off |
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JABBP (Just another Byron Bathroom Pic) |
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Pic of Wayne's vehicle taken from Freds just because I can. |
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Pic of Wayne as we passed him. Fred drives over 1,000 MPH you know.
Hey that's what find-u.com says. |
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Byron got sucked into the clothes rack by a lady on the other side |
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There you go, Renee. That was the big purchase at Big Lots.
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Mom's bedroom |
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kitchen |
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Living room |
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It's the kitty! |
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Byron interviews Brandy |
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Byron's underwear drawer |
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This week we sit down for a face to face talk with Byron |
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We're not gonna make it in this big van! |
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10 Buddhists on the way to Chicago |
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Hey, Chris, I built your test board and it works!
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DTMF-2 test setup
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Final location of weather station keypad
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Was just showing someone what I use for audio in the workshop.
Got to have some good stuff to listen to when attempting productivity!
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The new mini bluetooth GPS. I'm just a little software away
from being able to report my position to my web page via the pda. |
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Ground view of the wind sensor. Oops guess I better bring in
that ladder before the show.
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Byron drives this leg of the trip. The braille t-shirt is
a nice touch :-)
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Newly installed rain guage with home-made mount. I'm not great
with woodworking but I thought it was a decent job. YES it's
got water seal on it. |
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Wind speed and direction sensor on top of the pole that has the
Big Buddha antenna on it.
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APRS station |
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w0kie booth located right across from
the rest area |
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and right by the scooters |
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"Low battery!" |
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Uhhhhhhhh .... |
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Thurs. lunch at golden corral |
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Can you believe he brought a laptop to
a beffet? |
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Radio six (motel 6) 106.9 is on the air.
Someone make an ID!
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He's trashed and it hasn't even started. |
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Byron's comment was "the drink of Rob" |
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leanne is packed |
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She must be stopped! |
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Yeah, I'm about to be back in Iowa |
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The back seat
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corn corn corn corn .. look a tree ...
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Motivation is ALIVE! |
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Michi says I haven't done enough mobile
updates lately
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I had to have LeAnne take another pic with the better camera to
proove to Renee that I don't have a bald spot. I do seem to
have lots of hair though!
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Paying homage to Pat's BIG 45 minute opening. |
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The Barix streaming to mallard.dishnuts.net:8000/barix.
Very cool .. stream in a box.
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It's here!
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Rubber ducks at the fest |
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The talk-in station antenna |
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hap (big geek) holly |
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Danger Will Robinson! |
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LeAnne finally opens her Christmas present. Now are we gonna
see her dance around like they do on TV? |
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Paying Homage! |
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Kristy expresses her feelings |
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The Steak and Shake chowdown
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Lester studdies the menu
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Now Lester, I know you are glad to have your new TV but you are
taking this a little too far! |
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Lester finally gets his TV! |
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The fence has been fixed. |
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The doorbell that you heard about on LTUAE. Hot gluing to
brick is not easy and the large envelope in the mailbox is
the parts order I've been waiting for!
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Michelle demanded an update so .... |
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Oh no Darryl has fallen asleep on his own show! |
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More drunken Byron
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That Byron done had too much to drink
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Duane just after LeAnne told him the champagne was all gone
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A threeSOME???
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Kristy and her new girlfriend
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Byron and his new girlfriend. |
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Oh no, we KNEW it would come to this!
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It's a passed out Darryl |
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Mr. Bob |
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"What do you do with a trashed out Byron?"
"What do you do with a trashed out Byron?"
Michelle woke him up at 3PM .. shame shame |
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Hey who is this bozo?
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Ah, Byron is there something we should know??? |
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Looks like the party has already started! |
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Byron strangles me with his headphone cable for trashing his show |
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Byron trying to do his show with me trashing him on another stream
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A serious geek! |
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Late Night tech party
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Police inspecting damage |
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Lester at the CBC |
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Big bottle lester got me for the water cooler that Carmen got me.
Should I keep this by my bed?
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Lester got hisself an ouchie.
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Present opening aftermath |
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Lester, they go on your feet you hillbilly!
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Damn we are messy |
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Lester passes out presents |
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Carmen is a bit tired even before things get going |
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Santa's helpers |
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CBC tree and presents |
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Why does this remind me of Byron? Lester passed out with
a listening device on. |
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Lester doing his show.
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Truer words were never placed on anyone's door |
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Lester's new gloves. Dammit boy, you moved. |
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He insisted I take one without his eyes covered but I think
the last one if funnier.
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Lester gets his present from Kristy early |
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LeAnne tricked me. She said "hey go upstairs with your camera
Kristy has put up the tree."
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Kristy climbs in bed with Byron.
I bet Michelle is jelous. |
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Aww, Byron didn't make it. |
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"Hi Lester!!" |
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The singing frog
(went fot $25)
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Byron burns a CD at the NFB meeting |
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Byron's new murse
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Byron eats his headset trying to get a dense ACB broadcaster wannabe going
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Byron thinks some of my irc comments are cold |
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Cutting the cake |
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LeAnne's birthday cake |
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LeAnne's birthday dinner |
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Official mobile funzone picture! |
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Byron's porta show |
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Nooooooooooooo! |
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Peek-a-boo |
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I cut open the box with the keys to my scooter ... look, its a Dell! |
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Thanks dad! |
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The secret overnight show ... shhhhhh!
Note the H4 being used as an external soundcard. |
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Uh, Byron, that clean laundry you say you don't have is
right in front of your table! |
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YABP: Yet Another Byron Pic :-)
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The two love birds |
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Sorry Byron, we ate it all before you got here |
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Mmmm, CBC din din |
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A turkey stuffed Byron
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Charlie playing "air broom" |
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Byron you are a witch |
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Ooops a deviled egg exploded on LeAnne! |
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Mom and Michelle |
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The finished product |
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Byron continues work on the deviled eggs |
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Someone's in the kitchen with Carmen ...
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CBC turkey update |
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Aaaand now we present the egg juggling Byron ...
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Fancy toilet seat Kristy bought |
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Error: 404 Byron Not Found!
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Ehhhhh, I ran out of content! |
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Fee Fie Foe Fum! |
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When does this happen in the stream? |
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After mom leaves
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What happens when mom comes to visit for one day!
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Its the Byron cocoon
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Yar matie!
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Time to do a show |
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The lazy co-host |
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Sometimes ya just feel like wringing his neck
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Kristy gets Byron |
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Help its stuck!
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Byron!!!!!!!
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CQ Blair :-) |
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GQ Byron |
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See that lady! |
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Kevin Worley |
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Scholarship winners
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OMG I won!!!!
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Byron and I are geeks. We can\'t deal with the banquet. |
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bbb Danny! |
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NFB banquet |
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Byron hold it still! |
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Because I'm white and nerdy ... Im just so white and nerdy
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ |
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Hey, Byron, this girl is from Macomb. Give her a call. |
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This guy gave a great speech. He wrote a book called
"I'm blind .. so what." He reminded us of Matt |
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my little corner |
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Byron didnt make it through idol :-)
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Saturday Morning at NFB |
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The Audio Table
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The Friday night setup |
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Byron can't deal with the "idol" competition. Maybe he is
having a ringo flashback
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Friday evening session |
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Audio table at NFB |
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Click on the secret spycam and see Byron brushing his teeth!
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Hi Michelle you sexy thing. |
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When 900 years old you are look as good you will not eeeh. |
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Quit clowning around Kristy
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LeAnne got attacked by the junk |
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The temp area |
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The bad news is that the other one is overflowing. |
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The good news is we emptied one! |
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Mom's apartment -sigh-
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Now what we have here is a NEW lady lava lamp. If you act
now we'll throw in a Grandstream VOIP adapter and, of course,
the w0kie McGuire card
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Just think Byron .. it can be yours as soon as I hear from
Lester that he has his stuff. |
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It looks so empty
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stuff it in |