Wireless, Lunar Eclipses, and Anatomy

I'm so cheap that I'm stealing an email from my friend to post here.  It was a good summary of a few things I've been up to.

So I took the eeepc down to my inlaws the last weekend here, and coming back from the topsham hannaford, left it on the dashboard and did wireless scans all the way back to bowdoin.  Quite the surprise to see all the wireless systems out there!  I think a neat app would be something that combines gps with wireless scanning.  It wouldn't be too hard to code an app that put scan in a flat file for uploading to a website that posts where hotspots are.  Maybe one already exists!  I haven't looked.  All I have to do is retire, then I'd have time to play with stuff like this.  I don't think my 401k is quite up to snuff yet though :).

Lunar eclipse coming up on Wed if you like to photograph things like that.  I have no idea what the weather will do though.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/13feb_lunareclipse.htm

I have tomorrow off, so we'll be redoing the bathroom a bit, oil change, and maybe I'll try buying some pellets from Tibbetts to see how cheap they are.

Also I had to look up leg anatomy the other day.  My left  calf muscle, near the front just to the right of the large bone (), hurt a little bit.  No bruising, but I've been working out and could have pulled something.  Not sure on the muscle, but it seems better today.  Always interesting to throw in a little anatomy once in awhile though.  Wikipedia wasn't bad for it, but I kept searching around for a little more details on pictures.

A new way to blog

This is my first blog posting a new blog way, via email.  I thought this would be easier to keep things up to date, and I don't have to login to the blog site.  The latest and greatest is that I just got to see my Uncle Ken, who I haven't seen in almost 9 years.  It was great that he came up to visit and we had a great time over at my Dad's with spaghetti.

Currently the kids are still growing like mad.  We play some tetris like games lately on the computers against each other.  I also get a kick that they really enjoy the gladiator show.  They end up picking a favorite from each team and cheering them on.

We went sledding this past weekend at the inlaws.  That was also a really good time.  The drive down and back were both filled with crazy roads, and cars in the ditch.  On the way down, near Waterville, a large tractor trailer was off the road partially jackknifed into the right lane.  On the way home, heading north, we passed a gas truck in the median between the two highways.  But the sledding was nice and we stayed at Sara's aunts with the two younger ones to lessen the cat hair effects on their allergies.

I'm about to fade off to sleep, but a few last things on the geek side to mention.  One, try google reader.  I was introduced to it by a friend and it is a great way to keep up on the rss feeds.  I call it the ADD(attention deficit disorder) reader, per Greg and my coining of the phrase since you can flip through 100's of articles very quickly.  But it really is a great piece of web-ware.  And I've started playing this online game called travian, which is a very slow online game similar to CIV.  The fact that it is slow is appealing because I don't have a lot of time to commit to any gaming right now.  So this game you make about 2 choices per day, and then you've used up your resources and you wait until tomorrow.  Not a bad idea for the busy person.