First of all, Janelle made it to Katrina's house safely. Michigan decided to welcome her with its largest storm of the year so far. In Janelle's own words, "It's snowing hard , but not really. Not for us anyway." However, the last winter storm was apparently far enough back in people's memories that a large number of them either lost their minds or completely forgot how to drive in the snow. Still, when I finally had the chance to FaceTime with her, she was safely sitting on a sofa with grandbaby Julian sleeping peacefully on her.
As Connor is off playing in the drumline at today's basketball games, Rowen and I had dinner on our own. Lately, we've been rewatching Community, but Connor asked that we not watch it without him. Thus, Rowen and I decided to see if Paramount+ would work on our StarLink and continue watching the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy. Considering the problems that we've had with Disney+, I was not expecting it to work well. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised. While not as robust as Netflix (which buffers far enough ahead that it can continue playing even with occasionally outages), Paramount+ still performed better than Disney+.
On the subject of StarLink, at Janelle's recommendation, I joined an Alaskan StarLink owners group on Facebook. It was there that I learned about the site satellitemap.space which unofficially shows the positions of StarLink satellites and other orbiting objects. Almost immediately, one can see that the problem has not been my trees but the lack of satellites in the uppermost latitudes. Thankfully, it is also tracking a group that was launched in late December that looks like it is making its way into a circumpolar orbit--greatly increasing the number of contact points that we will have available. Still, it also clearly shows why astronomers might not be that happy with this system.
Hopefully, tomorrow will bring me more news about my upcoming trip to Rome and Athens. I asked my tour consultant for topics that I should cover at the meeting that I'm holding next week, and she indicated that our flight information might be ready for me to share. She is going to video chat with me tomorrow and will hopefully have that information by then.
Add in two more DDF tournaments between now and my trip, and I'm in for a busy couple of months.
As Connor is off playing in the drumline at today's basketball games, Rowen and I had dinner on our own. Lately, we've been rewatching Community, but Connor asked that we not watch it without him. Thus, Rowen and I decided to see if Paramount+ would work on our StarLink and continue watching the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy. Considering the problems that we've had with Disney+, I was not expecting it to work well. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised. While not as robust as Netflix (which buffers far enough ahead that it can continue playing even with occasionally outages), Paramount+ still performed better than Disney+.
On the subject of StarLink, at Janelle's recommendation, I joined an Alaskan StarLink owners group on Facebook. It was there that I learned about the site satellitemap.space which unofficially shows the positions of StarLink satellites and other orbiting objects. Almost immediately, one can see that the problem has not been my trees but the lack of satellites in the uppermost latitudes. Thankfully, it is also tracking a group that was launched in late December that looks like it is making its way into a circumpolar orbit--greatly increasing the number of contact points that we will have available. Still, it also clearly shows why astronomers might not be that happy with this system.
Hopefully, tomorrow will bring me more news about my upcoming trip to Rome and Athens. I asked my tour consultant for topics that I should cover at the meeting that I'm holding next week, and she indicated that our flight information might be ready for me to share. She is going to video chat with me tomorrow and will hopefully have that information by then.
Add in two more DDF tournaments between now and my trip, and I'm in for a busy couple of months.
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