Greybeards Gripes

Surprize!  The big incoming snowstorm didn’t pan out.  We got a couple of inches and the weather has warmed considerably.  The ice,  still at 15 inches on the river,  is starting to get a little soft.

The Walleye (in the river) are still starting to nibble around 4 or 5 Pm and picking up a bit about 6 pm til full dark.  There are a few snowmobilers  still heading out onto the edges of the Bay,  but I doesn’t look like a good idea to me.

As it warms up a bit,  it’s starting to feel more and more like SHOOTING WEATHER! 

~~GB 

Well,  I don’t have all the details,  but yesterday I heard that one of the new Dem’s in the legislature,  has proposed to renew the dreaded and useless”Assault Weapons Ban”,  to top it off,  they’ve added a 10 cent per round tax on ammo.

The article said that this rendition had little chance of passing,  but we could consider it,  an “opening shot across the bow of the USS FREEDOM!

~~GB

Yesterday I shortened the lenght of the co-ax cable from the Sat. box to the upstairs TV and removed a splitter.

I realized that the downstairs TV could be connected via S-video and component cables,  thus allowing the co-ax from the Sat box to go directly to the Big TV upstairs.

Note:  I tried the Sat box upstairs yesterday also,  but for some reason,  I assume cable length,  the Sat box will not recieve a signal on the upper floor??

State of the HD?  My cheap powered over the air antennae just isn’t reliable,  it’s going back.  The picture on the HD set (from the sattelite) is now a lot better,  but still far from perfect. Still no reliable HDTV.

Last nights fare was “The Guardian” starring Kevin Costner.  I’d give the movie about 3 out of five stars,  pretty predictable.  I’d give the HDTV about 3.5 stars out of five.  The picture was pretty clear and the sound was very good.  It wasn’t an HD capable DVD and I don’t have an upconvert player,  so I guess it gave about as good as it got.  I’m still a bit frustrated by the fact that wide screen isn’t standardized.  Seems like there are always spacer bars somewhere.

Note: I passed up an upconverting DVD player,  complete with an included HDMI cable .  The price was right, but it was an open box, unknown brand, unit at Meijer’s.

To be continued:

~~Cadet Video

cough, sniff, cough.

Mitt Romney?  Yeah he’s a Morman.

O’bama is a Muslim and Hillory (should be) a felon, no one seems to be complaining about them!

~~GB

In AuGres that is:

Last night was  a cold one,  -5 degree’s with a light breeze.  The high today was about 22 degree’s.

There are fish in the river,  under about 8 or nine inches of ice,  but most of them seem to be small Walleye.   Not to many keepers, and it’s been awful cold to be out there fishing.  The ladies tried it for a few hours yesterday,  until my better half managed to step on her fishing line while baiting a hook,  and hooked her thumb real good.  (Easy to do when it’s bitter cold and your bundled up so heavy)  Her Sister pushed the hook through and we cut off the barb, then pulled out the hook.  A quick call to the Doc this morning, had us running down to St. Mary’s to get her tetanus vacine updated.  That ice fishing stuff can get pretty dangerous!

~~GB