Extra long holiday
I stayed home today, taking an extra day to burn through some of my PTO. I have been bumping up against the cap all year, so I have been pre-loading vacation. The only downside is that I’m normally back against the cap by the time the vacation actually rolls around. What I need to-do is take a couple weeks, but that has been hard. My new boss actually suggested taking the week of Christmas and the week after this year, maybe I’ll do that.
Anyhow, today was productive. I got the MythTV installation to actually show TV on the screen. I had wanted to only run the backend on my desktop, because I don’t plan on watching anything there, but it appears MythTV doesn’t like that much. I finally caved, installed the frontend and then walked through the same directions a couple times until it started working. I’m pretty sure it had nothing to-do with the card/drivers and everything to-do with getting the right sequences of defaults picked. But as soon as the option to scan the channels un-ghosted, everything started working. Now I need to give it a real antenna, a set of rabbit ears in the basement, pointing the wrong way just isn’t going to cut it.
I also got some radio stuff done, but nothing much in the success area. I need to locate a service monitor which has a deviation meter. Everybody says that is what you need to align a 9600 baud UHF modem and I’m tired of trying to-do it without one. I also got the back brakes done on the Pathfinder, but that was more dropping off the car and waiting.