I spent the last couple of days, and all night tonight trying to figure this out, and finally figured it out.  So, I figured that this deserves a blog posting about it.

Let me mention a couple things first to kinda set up the rest of the story.  My Internet service is through Clearwire, which is wireless Internet.  It works off of towers similar to cellphone towers.  Sometime ago, I rearranged my apartment, and moved my router and modem to the other side of the house by the window, because they added a tower to this area.  With clearwire, you are supposed to get the best signal by a window; however, this did not used to be the case.  Before they added the tower, I got the best signal across the room.

To make a long story short, I had moved my metal filing cabinets over to the window.  I have used them as a stand for some parts to my network.  I am using a Netgear Router, a Belkin Network USB Hub, and a Western Digital My Book World Edition (w/ a network interface).  All the sudden, my wireless router kept dropping signal.  Well, I figured out that if you have the router near large metal surfaces, that it can degrade the wireless signal.  To solve this problem, I switched my little bookcase with the filing cabinets, and I have had no problems since.

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases. 

1. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. 
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. 
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. 
4. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. 
5. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. 

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I don’t have any kids yet, but have plenty of nieces and nephews.  This video that I found is pretty funny, and I hope that you laugh as much as I did.

This is actually pretty funny.  I just saw it on another blog, and laughed quite a bit.  President Bush basically just told the reporter to “Shut Up”.  Not in those exact words, but in a round-about way. I don’t think I have ever seen something like this before.

I am not a democrat, but I saw a bumper sticker that was pretty funny.

“Democrats are Sexy. Whoever thought of a good piece of elephant.”

Today is April Fool’s Day. Krissie is in Billings, Montana visiting her sister and brother-in-law.  I was just getting ready to hop into bed, and the phone rang. When I answered the phone, it was my wife. I will give a little excerpt of the part of the conversation that I thought was pretty funny.

Krissie: “I love you, and hope you have a good night.”

Anthony: “I love you too!”  …At this point, I started to hang up the phone.

Krissie: “Honey!! Wait”

Anthony: “What?”

Krissie: “Guess What?”

Anthony: “Yeah?”

Krissie: “I’m pregnant”

Here, I didn’t really think about today being April Fool’s Day. So, I continued…

Anthony: “Really?”

Krissie:  “April Fool’s” she tells me this, as she is laughing hysterically.

I have now just created my own blog.  I will try to keep things updated here. I will post from time to time whenever anything cool or exciting happens.

And by the way, today is also April Fool’s Day (This, however, is not an April Fool’s joke).