Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Posting about having done my taxes for another year, after finding that I had blogged about having done so last year....made me remember another thing I blog about doing. Which reminded me that I had forgotten to do the last step of my bi-annual dayli… more »

It seemed strange, and it turned out to be kind of difficult to do.A while back I had swapped the cable company's HD DVR for another TiVo, and soon after I noticed something missing. I could no longer tell the time while watching TV. I wasn't too w… more »

Seems to have snuck up early this year. Also seems to be fewer clocks to check, or I'm just assuming more things have updated correctly on their own and other devices I just don't care if they have the right time or not. :lalala: But, before I starte… more »

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Last night I experienced another Kansas Weather Event. Starting to wonder if I had known about these things, would I have called Manhattan, Kansas home?Last night it was rain, and lots of it. I may as well have been a solid water coming down everyw… more »

Well, this weekend was the big Zimbra migration for K-State. And, figuring that I would be home nursing it along all weekend, I shot for this weekend as the next time I would give No Hassle Groceries a shot.Even though I had time to go play radio gu… more »

So this was the grant date of my original Amateur Radio License.Hadn't realized that I had been a Ham this long. Things sure have changed since I first got my ticket. But, so have I :>> more »

On cpaptalk.com, it was mentioned using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean masks. So, that got me looking around for an ultrasonic cleaner.Since the OP got his off of Australian eBay, I decided to get one from a US eBay seller.It arrived today. I g… more »

I now have a VX-7RB and an MH-73A4B on order. This morning I decided to pull the trigger on getting that new handheld that I had been thinking of getting ever since I passed my Technician Exam and became licensed to operate in the US.Except that I w… more »

This was the first test session since I got my General. I'd had the study book for Extra since I got General, but only managed to skim about half the book...in 8 months. I figured I'd have time to dedicate to reading it before an actual test session.… more »

I was all in a rush last week to upgrade the other drive in my primary desktop. Partly because the plan was to use the old drive as the backup drive of my other computer. Guess, I'll just have to go without backups for a while longer. I had resorted… more »

Once again, after some thought yesterday, I decided that I'm going to pass on getting a new Windows XP computer. Even though I was eyeballing something based around a Phenom X4 based system. And, my old XP machine is almost 5 years old....and new syste… more »