Football on the Tele.

Since I have FSC I hardly watch anything else. I have decided the EPL beats the hell out of the NFL anyday. 60 minutes in an American football match, 2 minutes of commercials every 3 minutes, damn thing is stretched out to 3 hours. 90 minutes in a football match, one commercial break for haltime(20 minutes or so), whole things done in 2 hours. If your football team sucks, at the end of the season they get relegated to a lower league. Thats what the Bears and the Cubs need to light a fire under their asses. Suck and you lose your major league status, a year in the CFL would be what the Bears deserve. Speaking of The Suck, your national team faces Mexico on Saturday, so find a pub and a pint and enjoy.

Home at last.

I spent a hectic 4 days in CA. I was in LA, but had so much work to do I wasn't able to drop Lou or Alex a line. Busting our ass should make it so that I don't have to work when Sean rolls through around Labor Day.

Slow boat to China

I managed to come back early from NM, so I got to give CK her birthday beats, proper like. It was a relatively uneventful trip, got some work done, was unable to complete other work. There was an indian casino down the road. A real dive, but it had a 4/8 game going so I spent most of my nights there. They wouldn't bring booze out of the bar. Nothing like gambling dry to keep the losses down. 4/8 limit hold 'em is a really different game than what I usually play. At that small amount of cash everybody chases and plays just about anything. The secret to beating that kind of crap is to hold out, be patient and don't play mediocre hands. For instance, last hand I played pocket 3's for cheap, made my trips on the flop and bet them. This got everyone who had been paying attenyion to my previous betting to fold, but the bimbet at the end of the table hung on to make an 8 high flush on the turn(four clubs on the board and the 8 in her hand). I new she had done it, so I folded. Life is rough.
In better news CK got her delivery from the birthday flower gnomes. I also added some more chocolates. They have a See's Candy in the A terminal at Phoenix Airport, It was like Allah was trying to tell me' get the wife some more chocolate'.

SWR

My next band is going to be named '2 meter band plan'.
I dropped by the storage unit last night and fished out my 2m handheld and all the associated peripherals. I also stumbled upon 2 mag mount antennas and a couple of 144Mhz SWR meters. Upon inspection of the antennas I found they were reflecting way to much of the transmited signal, so I thought the meters were afu. Then my dummy load was reading perfect 1:1, so I took a closer look and the cable to one antenna was sliced where it had been passing through the door of the truck. The rubber Ducky(3:1) and other mag mount(5:1) were sucking, well, because they suck. I discarded the mobile, but kept the rubber ducky as a back up. I hope to replace them with something that will work better than if I just stuck pasta noodles into my BNC jack.