Job: 123 Fake Street, Anywhere

A short while back I got interested in fish-keeping. That mug peering at you is a Pseudotropheus socolofi that was one of the first cichlids I got. He has nothing to do with this particular story, except to welcome you. That and his tank is just below the fish I’m going to talk about.

About 3 months ago I bought some Xenoophorus captivus at an auction. They are native to Mexico and listed as endangered on FishBase.org. You can see their geographic location at Jesus Maria google satellite maps if you are at all interested. But what about these Green Goodeid’s already.

OK, lets just say when I got them there were eight. Now there are about twenty-eight. If you have never had live-bearers you don’t know what you are missing. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been doing cable television work for some time. Nearly two decades have passed since I started. To say things have changed would be an understatement. The amount of channels available to the average customer has probably quadrupled. Services that would have been unheard of are now commonplace. More bandwidth, more services, more, more and a little bit more than that. Somewhere along the line we went from an entertainment medium to a utility. With that came a much larger change. The change of reliability of all services at all times period.

So how do things stay running all the time? Quite simply they don’t, they just seem to. For me, tonight is one of those nights … Read the rest of this entry »

I have to apologize. I got a bit sidetracked learning how to manipulate the blog instead of just talking. I think though, I may be over that for now. Instead, I’d like to restart myself and maybe explain what I hope to do here.

Look for a moment at the top of the page. That is a bucket eye view of the way I see a cable system. Winding off into the distance, houses and homes just around the bend. People that I don’t know at all, that could be customers one day. Or not. Really, it doesn’t matter. I really just enjoy the view. I guess it helps that I love the work.

Anyhow, I really haven’t decided if this blog experiment will work for me. It seems that what is needed is a serious desire to “keep with it” and keep things from going stale. In order to do that there must be fresh things to talk about. Things that others will find interesting.

Do people even care how the internet gets to their house. Or are they like my better half who says, “don’t spoil the magic.”