FCC Auction

Most people know that coming in Feb 2009 if you use an antenna to watch tv (as we do), you will have to have a newer tv to get free television channels. A lot of people aren't happy about this. Although I am not excited about paying for a new tv, I am excited about the opportunity that this brings to all of us.

This has made a very large section of the wireless spectrum available and the government is going to auction it. It is expected to get 10-15 billion at auction.

What this means is that someone is going to buy it and use it to provide new wireless services. The people who are looking at buying it are mostly cell phone providers but the one that I am mostly excited about is google. They will likely use it to provide wide spread wireless access that will have a huge range compared to what is available now.

I heard roomers that the government is going to make restrictions that will keep portions of the band available to anyone who needs one. This means that in the future when someone develops a new wireless device they won't have to be a giant company, they can use part of the 700mhz band.

Can't wait to see what happens. The auction is suppose to begin before the end of the month.

YOu can win a bonus point if you can tell me who the person is in the picture.

Things that wake me up

I am often awaken (not sure that is the right word) by grand thoughts, problems, and things we will not understand until we get to heaven. This morning was no exception. Here is what I woke pondering.

I wear a blue shirt and my belly button lint is blue.

I wear a red shirt and it is red.

Yet when I wear a white shirt, it is grey.

I got dibs on asking Jesus when I get there.

Tim

I am free

I went to the ear doctor today (turns out my ear doctor(Dr. Manning) is Becca Mayo's brother(for those of you who know her)) and he took a big hunk of "packing" out of my ear. He said that I am not %100 healed, but that it looks very good. He finsihed by saying that I have no restricktions. So now I can lift whatever I want and do what ever I want.

5 months ago I decided I was going to start swimming, shortly after that, I ruptured my ear drum, no swiming.

Then I decided I was going to start running, shortly after that, I broke my leg, no running.

Once that healed I was going to start lifting weights and running again, then I had surgery on my ear, no straining at all.

Now "I am free to run, I am free to dance" (I don't like that song, but I like the message)

I will wrap up with some updated pictures of my deer. Note the six foot long sausage I made. Good times.
This pile is about half of what my deer made.
IN the oven with my meat thermometer.

Thanksgiving Hunt

About a month ago when Genessa was in Baton Rouge, I got bored and decided to take the hunters education course online.

This last week I got my first deer the night before Thanksgiving out at our land. It was a big doe. Here is a low quality pic. It was fun.

I have surgery tomorrow at 9:00am in Springdale on my ear so be praying for us.

Thanks,
Tim

You heard me

4 months ago, I was wake boarding and loving it. Until I wiped out and hit my ear on the water and ruptured my ear drum. That by the way didn't hurt to much, except when I put alcohol in to dry out the water (never do this). I ended up blowing out about 25% of my ear drum and loosing about %40 of my hearing in that ear.

I went back to the doctor yesterday to see if my ear had healed and the good news is that some of my hearing is back. The bad news is that I still have a hole in my ear drum and I will have to have surgery to repair it. With the surgery it is possible but not guaranteed that I will regain some more of my hearing.

All that said I am having surgery sometime on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Tim

Black Friday

If you are like Genessa and I, you don't pay full price for anything and you only buy big big bargains. Coming up is Black Friday and some of the ads are creeping up on the internet. I prefer scanned in ads and here is a site I found after a quick search.

http://bfads.net/adscans

I would still like to see Wal-Marts ad. I am in the market for a supper cheap flat panel. But I bet I will have to wait another year before they will be in the range of what I am willing to pay.

Tim

Much needed update

I will try and keep my descriptions short.

We are buying a 100 year old house just off the Bentonville square(MLS #515229). That is if we can sell our house in Springdale (MLS # 521473).

We have settled with the insurance company for the bus, it is now mine again and I need to sell it.

We still have to settle for Genessa and my medical bills, some $10,000.

I am walking more now that I am a week and a half off of the crutches. I currently have what is called pitting edema. I don’t know what that really means but it is fun to play with. My leg swells a lot when I walk especially on Sundays (my biggest walking day).

I don’t like making the bed.

I love my wife.

You can watch more shows than ever for free online. Including some discovery channel shows and starting this season "the office" and "my name is earl".

My favorite “NEW” show is "Pushing Daisy’s". Which is a sure sign that it will last only one season. It is a love story at its heart but it has some weird elements that will keep people from watching it. You can check it out at www.abc.com

I will wrap up with some pictures of my shrunken leg and other random pics

Our dog Cho Cho in a box. And our other dog Sam 's tail on my leg.
Shrunk left leg.(I don't want to hear any jokes about how they both look the same to me, you heard me)
House in bentonville
Violet, placemat.