Danny dozer

Riding the new 4 wheeler

He was pretty apprehensive about the noise at first, but in about 10 minutes he loved it

Ready to help out uncle Loren in the shop

Another vid

Video

Nice day in Edina

gas

94833mi 234odo
2.149 89oct
4.025g
8.65 bucks

ti-light eyeglasses and grand central

I had a blog reader contact me today via the GrandCentral phone link here on the blog.

A gentleman by the name of Richard in Toronto, Canada. We had a 10 minute conversation about eyeglasses...titanium ones for those of us with ...ahem, "king-size" heads.

Or as my kids say, cow-heads.

Thanks for calling, Richard. That was pretty cool. A communication that would have never happened 20 years ago...prior to the information age.

Austin and one of his "windmills"

Another anachronistic set of pix

From March 15 when we went to the Little Canada A&W with Crystal...

A few more from Easter

Took a very weak quantity of pix of people this year. On the left, is Kristin, Austin and Jerrie...and on the right, Kimmy, Leah, Crystal and Austin.

A few pics from Easter

Austin got a purple bunny from Leah! He also took a nap on the way down to St. Peter after Church.

Today...2 lazy boys this morn.

My BIG kids. Doug and Crystal

At Easter at my Mom and Dad's place. Also, my niece, Leah, over Crystal's shoulder.

Trixbox/Asterisk PBX

Closed circuit to home VoIP fans...

Got the SPA3102 configured and up and working on the Asterisk PBX. FXS/POTS incoming calls at this point ring to a Ring Group of a bunch of phones. That will be changing to an IVR when I get around to getting that set up. I've set up a dial code to access the POTS line for outgoing calls.

The FXS port is also working fine and I find it can ring 2 REN 1.0 mechanical bell phones plus at least 1 electronic bell. 3 REN 1.0's were a bit much...no go...just a faint buzz from the ringer.ri

I do have one Bell System princess phone with a rotary dial....not supported, but we generally only use that phone for incoming calls.

I have a PAP2 that I need to get configured as well that will give us 2 more analog ports and allow one extension per floor of the house (including the 1 port on the 3102 box...for 3 total).

Plus the Cisco 7960s in Jerrie's office and mine yields a minimum of 5 device extensions.

Getting the SPA3102 going on both ports in both directions is non-trivial. I had to use information from a number of sources to put it all together.

If you want to see my configs, I'd be glad to share. Post a comment to the blog.

Went to McDonald's

To use Austin's Easter present card for pancakes!

Bike is out for lunch today

What an excellent day for riding.

Launching airplanes and helicopters in the park

Como park carnival is closed

Big daddy size

At MOA rides