Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@kf4yfa - C Crane. They make good stuff for sure!

@kf4yfa - If they're much like SDR Sharp, I can't imagine that they'd do well for screen readers since so much of the information is delivered graphically through waterfall graphs. It might be best to get an real electronic radio.

@kf4yfa - I have two radios.

One is specifically for Shortwave, and is no longer made: Sony's ICF-SW7600GR. It's an AM/FM/Shortwave reciever, but sadly isn't made anymore. You can still find it out there, but it's expensive.

The other is an all purpose SDR radio, but needs a few pieces to get it completely working for shortwave: Nooelec's 820T2. But for it to work, you'll need to plug it into a computer, and for shortwave reception you need an upconverter (I use Nooelec's "Ham It Up" upconverter). You'll also need software to listen in - I used SDRSharp. It's a lot to configure for shortwave, but the upside is you get a massive chunk of radio band to listen into (25MHz - 1750MHz, and everything below 25Mhz with the upconverter).

@kf4yfa - No license. I'm not interested in broadcasting, just listening. I used to DX TV and radio signals as a kid, and Shortwave scratches that same itch. :)

Since I was up this morning, I opened up the shortwave and checked to see what I was missing being a night owl. Apparently I was missing pretty much everything. Super clear signals, many overlapping each other, and several clear as a bell. I'm gonna have to see about setting up a time to record some of these while I'm asleep.

I got seven stations that were not just recognizable, but perfectly listenable like any local AM Station: Radio New Zealand (which comes in like gangbusters most anytime of day), KNLS out of Alaska, Voice of America out of the Phillipines, and China Radio International out of Jinhua and Shijiazhuang. Given that the only station I'd actually listen to was Radio New Zealand, it's not changed much, but my options are better.

My body WANTS to sleep from 8AM to 4PM. Even with the layoff, I'm trying to keep to 4AM-Noon. A wake up at 1PM? Close enough after the last 36 hours of sleep struggle.

Well seeing that my sleep schedule is completely trashed, I may as well watch the sunrise. Cause the McDonald's won't open for another fifteen minutes.

Gotta get those McGriddles when you're awake for them.

Burning off the last of the Threadgill's homemade dinner in one go.

A++ Would cook again.

I'm watching the pics and video from the Picard screenings few days ago, and I've got so so so many memories of the TMP Screening I went to last April.

While I woulda loved to be there, I think I'd have enjoyed the TMP viewing better. The TMP vieweing was much more personal an intimate. I got to mingle with the producers and creators and it was really a celebration of the creation of a movie with the creators of the movie, and I very much felt like a very-far-orbit member of the crew than a fan.

The Picard premiere from a fan perspective looked more like a real movie premiere, where the creators and the visitors were kind of seperated from each other. I'm not sure how much of that is true, since I'm only seeing a few videos and pics here and there. It was also FAR larger than the TMP premiere, so it may have had to be that way. But the fans were happy to see each other, too. I know I would had a blast meeting Sean Ferrick and Jessie Gender.

It would have been a blast to go see Picard as well. But the TMP premiere is something I'm gonna treasure for a long long LONG time.

::wakes up five hours later in my office chair::

@toonces@tech.lgbt - Okay, +100 for Toonces as the Driving Cat.

I'm back home. Now the real question. Sleep now and wake up super early in the morning. Or fight sleep and sleep super late.

Waiting an hour for a blood test. That means a fifteen hour fast I'm meaning to break with gusto.

I'm in in the Wellburton neighborhood of Bellevue. Do I get sushi or pho? Something else you'd recommend?

NOW I'm finally tired. That's great and all. But I gotta be up in three hours, so, I hope you enjoyed an extra hour or so of web browsing, body, cause you're gonna be a wreck when I wake up.

Well, I've been tossing and turning for three hours in bed. I may as well just stay awake and call the Doctor really wants to do a full health exam with very little (if any) sleep.

If there's no exam, I'll just stay awake till I fall asleep.

Been a long time since I've seen a sunrise.