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  • Wow – nice winter

    Posted on March 22nd, 2017 cwmoore No comments

    Everyone is commenting what a nice winter it has been down here in West Central Florida and today was no exception.  If anything it was a little hot in wind free areas.  This being a Wednesday, we went down to Albert Whitted airport for lunch at The Hangar:  The special is the $6 hamburger and with fries you add $1.50.  The burger is big for the money and good taste and consistent.  Today it was just SAM & Myself but we tarried a bit, in spite of having a non-view seat: In retrospect, we should have waited the 10 minutes and taken an outdoor seat.  I n any case, we had a good time and the place was full even at 1300 hrs local and in fact there was a waiting list.

    On the way home we went via Central Avenue all the way to 58th and then north to 30th Ave and on to the pad.  Before we went downtown we stopped by Lowes to buy a new screen door handle.  So when we got home I installed it and it works perfectly.  By the looks of it the handle is more robust than the broken one.  This just about completes the list of items to be fixed before we return home up North.

    Last night I fired up the portable Allstar node 43584.  This node is connected to the internet via my mobile hotspot and it works quite well as long as I am stationary and near a big city with lots of bandwidth and cell towers.  The only issue is that the node must be within 15′ with direct view of the hotspot.  I guess I will be back to the land of unlimited speed and no data limits so I can have my IRLP and Allstar nodes on full time.