December 15, 2003

I'm finally online again!

My satellite connection was down since Saturday evening, when a heavy snow storm dumped about half a foot of snow on the region. As it turned out, the snow was pretty sticky and it stuck to my satellite dish like white on rice, effectively disabling the signal.

This morning, I finally got fed up and jerry-rigged a small hand broom with duct tape to the end of two pieces of plastic ducting (my dish is about 15 feet off the ground on top of my garage roof). With that, I was able to brush off enough snow off the dish that my signal was restored again.

Funny - my satellite ISP DirecWay doesn't mention anything about snow on the dish in their user guide ...

On the Bright Side however - I'm surrounded now by a magical, frozen winter wonderland! So the 10D begged me to go out and explore. I yielded gladly.

Most of the shots are still in the post-processing stage, so more will be up on the site tomorrow, but I managed to get at least my favorite up today: