Friday….
I took today off and planned to spend it with Isaac, but he wanted to go to Steve and Kate camp so he wouldn’t miss the 5th of July parade.(little ouch) So today I started the deck clean up project. Managed to wash and strip the whole thing before getting Isaac, tomorrow we can start the staining process. I’m very happy I paid the money for the plastic floor boards, because only the railing has to be stained.
After picking up Isaac and getting him a hair cut, we stopped by the Apple store and I bought a new Airport AP. Required a little hoop jumping to get it going, but I now have all the laptops and iOS devices in the house on 5Ghz. Biggest pain was getting the dumb devices like our Nest thermostat and my Fitbit scale moved over to the new WiFi SSID. Everything seems faster, since I can see about a dozen SSID’s on 2.4Ghz from the living room, I’m sure there was a little interference going on before.
So I’m typing this update on my new iPad mini. I sold my Kindle Fire and the hand me down Gen1 iPad a whole ago. The plan was to replace them with something, I just wasn’t sure what. I spent a long time thinking and finally decided the mini is the perfect size for what I need/do with a tablet. The full size iPad is to big and I wanted the speed, something the Kindle Fire doesn’t have. I’m very happy with my choice. I can finally read QST now online!
This weekend it is just us boys, since Rosie went on a backpacking trip.(left this morning early) This is something that happens quite a bit in July and August, since Rosie loves hiking. We always have so much fun doing what ever, I am including a few more ‘chores’ this year, now that Isaac is bigger. But we will do lots of fun stuff, we both are looking forward to the new despicable me 2 movie and getting to eat at places Rosie doesn’t like.
It is just about the perfect evening tonight, sitting on the deck with the lights all off. Still just enough light for a picture of out neighbor HF beam…