Burrito Trifecta

So, Saturday was just one big annoyance. The only high point was that I stopped at Taco Bell for some burritos. So to explain the burrito trifecta: Friday lunch: Burrito Mexicana from Baja Fresh, Saturday Lunch: 3 Taco Bell Cheesy Double Beef Burritos, Sunday Lunch: 2 frozen Burritos.

Sunday was pretty good. We went to the early service since the 9:15 was cancelled for Palm Sunday. Got home, and cleaned up. I did some quick research about antennas and then went to the bank and ACE hardware to pick up some odds and ends for the antenna work I wanted to do.

I started work on the antenna just after lunch. I put the new section of mast in and moved the grounding wire from the previous antenna location to the antenna mast mount on the house. The Old section of mast was attached to the first, and I sanded the metal to provide a better ground connection between the mast sections. The ground wire extended up the new mast section and terminated at a grounding block for the coax signal wire. I ran an extra ground wire from the antenna mast mount up to the antenna u-bolt just to make sure that the upper mast section has a clean ground even though it is extraneous.

The First section I had of antenna wire was a homemade length with twist on connectors. I don't like the twist on connectors, but I tried it anyway. I had no signal. I tried rotating the antenna a little bit with no change. So, I ran out and got a 12' coax cable just to make sure it wasn't a faulty section of wire. After stopping at Lowes, we took the dog to Playwiki Park for a walk. More on that later. I got back swapped the wire, and nothing. Rotated the antenna AWAY from the boradcast antennas, and it got better. Then I spun the antenna back to where the antennas should be (original direction with the homemade cable) and I got the basic channels. I'm getting fed up with this. I called it a night and plugged the TV back into the rabbit ears.

So, Playwiki Park was a nice distraction. I had driven past it a long time ago, but this was the first time I stopped. We took a nice long hike through the trails and saw some wildlife and a limestone quarry that apparently had signifigant historical value due to the quality of the ore and that it wasn't located adjacent to any nearby quarrys. We met a few other dogs, including a 3 month old german sheppard puppy that was behaving very nicely off-leash. I was surprised how well this 3 month old was behaved.

Sunday, we had dinner at Appleby's just because I didn't feel like cooking after all the antenna work of the day.