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Back South Again with More Projects

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A lot of driving. I have forgotten how much driving is involved when on the farm. Everything is far. But I also had to drive up and back twice to Syracuse to pickup/drop off Angie at the airport and a business meeting for Wisdomino in Albany. Yeah it was a lot of driving. All and all it was about 4000 miles in three weeks. Early in the morning I decided to check out some auctions (dangerous). I ended up being high bidder on a 2015 New Holland Boomer 33 ( "hours unknown, does not run, may have problems, no key, no battery" ) from the State of Tennessee. I figured I could swing by Nashville and pick it up on the way to Georgia. And indeed I did. It was only a couple of hours extra, maybe 4. But, it was more efficient than going to Georgia and then back and forth to Nashville. Nashville is about 4 hours from Duluth. So I was looking at a 4 hour savings. After I go through it and getting if working I will tow it up to the farm in NY. I wasn't prepared for a tractor pic...
Sanswire One Unveiled Stratellite Here is the future. Coincidentally, (NOT) Intel is unveiling its new WiLan chip today as well. This combination seems very viable to me. Global broadband internet access is going to happen. This stratellite thing is great. It is lower cost that rockets, no latency delays for propagation. Let's watch this one.
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I had a forester out in the woods the other day. I am getting a better idea on how to manage our woodlot. Nothing is simple. Forest management is gardening on a large timeframe. Harvest this so this one grows and so on. When we were out there I saw some interesting prints. He said they were bear. Nice weather out this weekend. I am stuck doing homework. I still have to figure out next weekend because I am out of town. How am I going to get my homework done. I don't know yet.