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The Ooma Experiment Above, as it sits in its temporary testing location, our Ooma box all aglow in it's blue light of a good connection. One of the nice things about our Internet connection being 'bumped up' from an often lagging less than 1 Mbps to a "whopping" almost 3 Mbps is the ability to now utilize a communication system like an "Ooma" to get our home phone in line with more modern phone features and capabilities, and to make it affordable again to have that home line. Now, for many people 3Mbps is life in the slow lane but for our rural area we can now speed along, most of the time, in a faster lane! When Last at daughter Sandy's house her connection speed was a real solid 16 Mbps and at son Sean's his was up to 23 Mbps, but he had problems with the connection stream dropping out on occasion. But he does live in an apartment complex in Hawaii. OK, so what is an "Ooma" you may ask? Well, I actually saw an advertisement o

Getting more Spring like Yes it is! The days are quickly getting longer, the temps are into the mid 40s in the daytime, about a month early, and quite a lot of the snow has been melting fast, it looks like it may be a longish spring this year. I noticed on the drive to work this morning that the recent rains at night and 40s in the daytime have gotten most of the snow gone in the valley on the farm fields we see every day. Last week I was amazed how they were still covered in so much snow to have them now barren of snow and already getting some green to them this week. We've even had a couple of mostly sunny days! I'm annoyed that those days were sunny during the week with the weekends continuing to be stormy, rainy and or really windy. With the weather still not the greatest I haven't flown the Yuneec Q500+ since January 3rd. I have now flown the computer program "UAV Pilot" from Yuneec more than I've been able to fly the real aircraft. I know though, s