Pushing my art

Since I have decided to dedicate my self to crochet and have started crocheting at least 5 hours every day and track my progress in my new blog I am launching. I am starting to get all these balls of leftover yarn. I also noticed in the cheap one pound skeins of yarn I normally get two places where the yarn is tangled in a manner you just have to cut. So I am going to start a scrap blanket. If you have crafted one of these before share with us some pictures of yours.

Baby Blanket

Here is a baby blanket I just recently started crocheting for my new nephew.

My first afghan.

Salina, KS

Just a little over 1k left. Today was a long time in the car for so few miles. Rane is doing our nails, while we sit in the hot humid day. Plenty of shade, so that is a blessing.

Day Two

We had a great nights rest. We really enjoyed the little cabin. The KOA's on the far side of Kansas didn't havee any available, so we decided to just push it to Salina KS. That is about as far as we drove yesterday. So the girls are eating breakfast, all you can eat pancakes for $2.50. You can't beat that. We plan to be on the road by 10:ish. We will probably make a stop at the Wizard of OZ Museum, since we are not going as far.

Goodland, KS

We got here about an hour ago. The KOA Campground is real nice. The cabins are clean. They are near the showers and pools. A nice, older Polish couple own it. They are delivering to our cabin tonight some homemade stuffed cabbage. We had a nice chat about  Cleveland and Perogi's.

We had a setback with the camera, so we have to find a cheap digital Saturday for the rest of the trip. Thee truck had to be packed, unpacked. LOL. I just unpacked it for the night, seccond time today. I am sitting on the porch typing this. Priase God for technology. LOL

Nice site for doing flowcharts

Draw Anywhere, has a nice online flow charting tool. The only issues to me is you only get three drawings for the free account. The oter accounts are a little pricey. The interface is nice. It was easy to use. I would like to see more symbol types, like Jacobson use cases..... Try it though.

Fun new website

You have to try this site out. It is Artpad. It is a fun online painting program. It records your strokes, and then lets you share the painting and how you painted it with others.

Nice interface, lots of fun.

Cricket Wireless Broadband Review (Part 2)

I have now used it in around 8 different areas in the city. Just in case, they claim that my location is the problem, not the network they connect to the internet through. I know it sounds crazy, but I have dealt with too many of these phone companies. They always try to make YOU the problem. Except for a few bursts here and there where it is almost acceptable for just surfing. It has not gotten any better. In some reviews I am seeing, people are reviewing it positively? I can't believe that. They must have been connecting to aol, through a tin can with a string. My plans for this week is to call and cancel my account this week. I also think it is funny. I got an SMS for a bill. It said they woudl bill me on the 10th. I didn't receive my usb modem until the 13th? I guess I get to pay while it was being delivered.

My wifes cell phone works great though. I purchased here a refab motorola. It was 29 bucks, and it has worked like a dream. It seems their phoen network in Colorado is decent. She has not had a single dropped call.

Cricket Wireless Broadband Review

I just received my usb wireless modem from Cricket. I had used Verizon's in the past. I will tell you right now I am very disappointed. I will try it from a few different locations this week. From my home I am getting three bars on my mac and Vista machine. I am seeing pings of over 800ms. On a new server of WOW, I was in the red, even though the server was low volume. My max transmit rate is 21.1 kbps, my receive rate is 105 kbps. The MTU was not returning a value for me. It takes 72 seconds to return Yahoo mail. Facebook is over a minute. It seems slower to me than my dial up modem.

I was hoping it would become a decent replacement for DSL, but at least where in Colorado Springs it appears to be lacking. Here are some screen shots of trace routes.

For those who are not familiar asterisks are bad. LOL

It appears that level3 is where Cricket gets its bandwidth from. I will try it in a few days just in case it is a one day occurrence.