A few more days of 50 + degree, sunny weather, and still the ice on the river is solid enough for a few ice shanties to still be in place. It looks pretty rotten, and I haven’t checked it’s thickness lately. From the mouth of the Au Gres looking out over the Bay, it looks like ice all the way across, not good ice, but ice. North of Whitestone Point is open water.
Just got home from a short trip south. I was anxious to see the state of the river. In short: The ice is still solid. Even with the high of 57 degrees, and lot’s of sun, I would still venture a guess that one could chance walking across the river. (but I wouldn’t try it).
This from Ballseyes Boomers.
I can’t say I didn’t expect something like this, but it appears,
That the Google Team is canceling out Google Blogs and email accounts of people who speak to loudly about Second Ammendment Rights, an or hold Conservative Values. All I can say is, when the lawsuit starts, sign me up!
“XP users, surfing with Internet Explorer should avoid using the F1 key when browsing the internet.” from: BorePatch
Ice on the river today. 20 inches at the deepest point drilled. Didn’t have much luck though, no fish. 
New WII game: Call of Duty, World at War. Haven’t had a chance to jump in yet, so no game report. I can report a bit on the Call of Duty, Reflex online play though. I’ve test myself online a few times now, and although the game itself looks good and responds well, I’m not really happy with the online play. Reason: It seems that every game I get involved with is dominated by CHEATERS. Ok, I can except that there are people out there with far better skills than mine and for the first few times I dutifully served as cannon fodder. When that got old, and I couldn’t figure anyway to stay alive more that a minute or two, I decide to play a little differently. Arming up with the heavy machine gun, I backed into a long blind alley and trained the weapon on the opening. Ok, I should be able to get a least one kill, right? NOT! The first opponent that peared into the alley, got a long burst of automatic fire, right in the face. You think that would do it, but no, he runs toward me, bullets spraying all over his body. Maybe 2 or 300 hits later, he kills me with his knife.
Ok, so I figure he’s cheating. Set up again, same alley. Guy walks by alley, looks in, grenade go’s of at his feeting, and full auto fire pummels his body as he charges toward me and again uses a knife to kill me.
Cheating confirmed, connection broken. I really don’t understand what kick these people get out of playing a game in this fashion. I tend to think they just might have a few screws loose. I wish someone was policing the online Wii games like they used to back when I played PC games online. Cheat=get booted on the game server.
PS: The Dlink seems to be working ok right now, but then it hasn’t been on very long. I had it shut down while I was installing a new 23 in. LCD monitor. A ViewSonic VA2323wm. I like this monitor!
It get’s worse and worse. Web browsing is basic a hit and miss option.
From what I can get off of my few trips across the internet that actually work, the problem could be in my DLINK router. It seems that a lot of other people with DLINK routers connected to a cable modem, are having the same problem. Unfortunately DLINK, has seems to have washed their hands of the issue. (real nice of them, eh?) I’ve found that rebooting the router helps, a little bit. But it’s starting to look like it’s time to start looking for a new router.
