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  • Polar Bear Plunge

    Posted on January 1st, 2009 cwmoore No comments

    We are just back from the Fort Wayne Polar Bear Plunge 2009.  We missed the Hamilton Lake outing yesterday and decided to go watch the Fort Wayne people.  I must say that quite a few did not fully immerse.  One older gentleman about my age just stayed in the water waist deep for about 5 or more minutes.  The ones who did fully immerse were younger in age and just ran in and dove under.  The water was quite full of silt.  Even the least of these did a better job than myself so I have no business judging the situation.  If you have not already wtch the Cold Water Immersion video in my previous blogline.

     On the way back home we drove through Cedar Canyons to see the old house.  It still looks quite modern even though it was built over 35 years ago.  It also has not changed much except the driveway that is now asphalt.  I take this opportunity to add a slide show (very slow) of some of the Christmas Festivities.

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  • DTV Coverage: Fort Wayne, IN

    Posted on January 1st, 2009 cwmoore No comments

    This link will take you to the FCC database of predicted DTV vs Analog TV coverage for the Fort Wayne, IN area http://www.fcc.gov/dtv/markets/maps_report1/Ft_Wayne_IN.pdf.  The rest of the country is covered in this report also and the zipped file size of approximately 300M and can be downloaded from this location  http://www.fcc.gov/dtv/markets/.

    We have an interest in this since we are contemplating a termination of the cable TV service.  We do not watch sufficient cable tv to justify the expense.  If we put up an antenna we will be able to receive 5 TV stations from the Fort Wayne area and 1 local low power station.  We intend to keep the Internet cable as it is our entertainment.