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Connection speed

Connection update in Las Vegas.
With the Verizon card, 350k download, 3,930 upload.

With the dish (we got the dish fixed), 857 download, 89 upload.

But the dish is way cool. It’s got gps, you push one button it deploys and finds the satellite. It glows blue at night. What could be cooler than that???


David, are you underwater?

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Health update

Two kinds of heart tests: both form and function. The results…. Contradictory. The form test, the heart scan, says I have advanced coronary heart disease; significant accumulation of plaque on or in my arteries. In fact, I’m in the worst ten percent of men my age. I have lowered my cholesterol in the last two years without using prescription drugs, but apparently not enough. The heart scan is worse than the one from two years ago. The other look, the function test, the nuclear stress test on the treadmill, says there is absolutely no compromise of function; blood flow through all arteries is perfect. Odd huh? Which test do we believe? The cardiologist says both results are legitimate. Unmedicated, my resting heart rate is 55, blood pressure 120s over 70s, calculated maximum heart rate 160, my maximum heart rate on the treadmill 165. How can my heart be in such bad shape, yet be in such good shape? Now we need to lower my LDL cholesterol enough to stop the accumulation of plaque. We need to drug it. Boggles the mind, doesn’t it? It boggles both of ours.
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Saturday

An easy drive into Las Vegas. Got the coach all set up at the RV Park. Had a nice visit with Cousin Ed. Tomorrow, Let the conference begin!
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Utah

Thursday, we drove Interstate 70 from Palisade, outside Grand Junction, across the magnificent badlands west of Green River to Richfield, perhaps our son’s favorite drive. South on Highway 89 through Panguich, then to the KOA in Cannonville, Utah, just outside Kodachrome Basin State Park; according to the abundance charts, the heaviest concentration of juniper titmouse on the planet. Friday morning. Up early for four hours of birding in perfect juniper titmouse habitat. The results? We listed twenty-five birds, some really neat for us, like ash-throated flycatcher, golden eagle, and chukar….., but no juniper titmouse. Not this trip. Loved Kodachrome Basin. Friday afternoon, on the move again, around the north side of Zion, over the mountains on highwy 20, south on Interstate 15 past Cedar City, Saint George, through the Virgin River Gorge, into Nevada to Desert Skies RV Park in Mesquite, nicely set up for an early arrival Saturday in Las Vegas tomorrow for the conference.
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Telecommute

There are so many ways to make a living on the road. This is a neighbor in Steamboat Springs. Every morning brought a cup of coffee, a cigarette, a telephone earpiece, and hours of conversation. She appears to be making her living on the road. We have no idea what she is selling, or talking about, but she has figured out how to do it from a trailer in Steamboat.