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You know our house is for sale, right? We have 2 showings later today. A new couple will be looking at it at 11am. Another couple that has been through our house 2 or 3 times already is coming again today with parents. They gave us an offer, but too low for us to accept. I think they’re showing parents to help sell them on the idea of them loaning some money to help with the down payment. We’re thinking that this is our opportunity to get the house sold. It’s too bad I started scraping some peeling paint on the outside of the house and didn’t get it re-painted before the rain came yesterday. Well, if it’s supposed to sell, it will. Right?

Work has been busy lately. There are even two job openings in my department. For all the public’s negative talk about Qwest over the past 5+ years, we’re doing pretty good. Our department is getting new customers nearly every day. I’m not sure how much money we’re making on them, but we’re nearing 10,000 devices monitored mark, and should/could reach that mark in 3-6 months.

I’m nearing the end of constructing the FM transmitter for the light show. I had to order some more parts from mouser.com so I can complete all the projects I’m working on. Once the transmitter is built, I’ll have to set it up and tune it and also try to figure out how all the boards get powered and interconnect to each other. There’s a transmitter board, a limiter/compressor board, a stereo encoder board and an RDM module. They all have to get mounted in a housing of some sort, too. I’ll need to get some housings for the Renard SS24 light controller boards also. They’re about $9 each online. The last part of the project will be building displays, buying lights, setting it all up and sequencing the show. It sounds like a lot of work, but it’s really going to be triple what it sounds like.

Mitch and his friend, Sam made a very simple, short movie yesterday. There’s not much of a plot to it, but you can tell they did put some thought behind it and the movie, though simple turned out really nice. What impressed me is the lighting. I’m not sure if they really pictured the end result, but what they did worked. Mitch has a 93LED flashlight (we call it the 93 horsepower flashlight) that they used to simulate a streetlight. The movie was converted to black & white in Sony Vegas (editing software) and the music they added seemed to fit pretty nice, too. I’m trying to get it uploaded to the web and when I do, will post a link (or will just put it on this website).