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John’s Solo Cross Country Flight

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I’m a little behind on getting the news posted. It was a crazy couple weeks at work. John did his first solo cross country flight.  I met him at Carroll County airport (in Carroll county).  It took me about 1 and a half hours to get there and drove about 76 miles.  John only needed 45 minutes to get there and he was flying out of Burke in downtown Cleveland.  John’s instructor was right, the “on base” restaurant servers great pie (the burger was great too).  John let me borrow his hand-held scanner.  I was able to use that to … Continue reading John’s Solo Cross Country Flight

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B Spot

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Olessia and I tried B Spot.  It is right to the point.  Burgers.  Brats.  Beer.  Olessia and I tried the burgers.  Pretty tasty.  The shakes are bad ass as advertised on the menu.  I would highly recommend checking it out…  Just plan a head, the wait can be kind of long. Continue reading B Spot

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Two Airshows in Two Weeks

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Went to the MAKS 2009 Russian Air Show two weeks ago.  That was AWESOME!  Lots of aircraft there that I will not see in the states any time soon.  The airshow grounds are huge and can take quite some time to walk around.  The performances were back-to-back too so there was always something in the sky to watch. Yesterday, friends and I wen to the Cleveland Air Show.  It was good.  It was much smaller than the Russian show and dare I say, maybe smaller than I remember seeing at previous Cleveland air shows.  The performances were great.  I hadn’t … Continue reading Two Airshows in Two Weeks

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Vonage

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It has been about a week or so on Vonage and so far it has been awesome! Once the gadget came in the mail (took about 3 days), I had it plugged in and set in about an hour (including the time it took to unplug the land line).  I wanted to have Vonage enabled at all the jacks in the house so I was able to follow a pretty easy tutorial online.  My router handles a lot of stuff and I wanted the Vonage gadget behind it and that is working great too.  I had a slight hiccup with … Continue reading Vonage

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Pictures from Russia

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Ok, I had issues getting pictures up on rsbauer.com so I put them up on Pathfinder instead (files are probably too big).  Here’s the link: http://pathfinder.rsbauer.com/gallery2/v/MoreRecent/Russia2009/ Watch this gallery instead of the other one. The first picture is of Olessia and we are enjoying breakfast at a London airport restaurant.  The rest are of Dubna and a party at Olessia’s friend’s house. Continue reading Pictures from Russia

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Surprise birthday party

Rob

It has been so hectic, I almost forgot to mention this.  Olessia threw a surprise birthday party for me!  It was quite a surprise!  She had about 30 people over, tons of food, gifts, and fun to be had.  On top of it all, my friend John was in on it.  He suckered me out of the house to fly with him.  You ask me if I want to go flying and the answer almost always will be, “yes!”  So I figured the flight itself would be a treat (it was!  we had 3 60 degree banked turns, 3 stalls, … Continue reading Surprise birthday party

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It is computer chaos!

Rob

It has been a crazy 2 weeks.  This weekend being MUCH better than last weekend. Last weekend, between Friday night and Saturday, my main PC (the one I use for development, photo editing, game playing, etc) locked up.  I haven’t seen a computer freeze and lock up like it did for quite some time.  Reboot and no luck.  It was having problems getting past POST and if it did get past POST, it locked up on the screen where the XP logo fades in on boot up.  Lots of potty language later, I realized this was a heck of a … Continue reading It is computer chaos!

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Some Updates

Rob

Olessia’s green card was successfully renewed!  This one should be good for 10 years.  She hasn’t received the card yet but has received a notice letter. I received my visa for our Russia trip.  With this, we are just about set to go. I joined the Cleveland Photographic Society and have been busy snapping pictures.  Check out the gallery at pathfinder.rsbauer.com/gallery2. Olessia got an A+ in her accounting class.  She is starting her MBA at BW. I got kicked out of U. Akron for taking a calculus at Tri-C without Akron’s permission.  Thanks Akron!  I took the spring semester off … Continue reading Some Updates

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Three Weeks in Russia

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Olessia has three weeks of vacation.  Me, on the other hand, has been switching jobs so much I am lucky to get a week here and there.  I made the switch to Progressive at the beginning of January and the trip to Russia had been on hold due to the situation at National City Bank.  It was looking pretty good I would have enough comp. time and vacation time at National City Bank that I could take three weeks off.  But the bank was in trouble and then bought out and my job security wasn’t looking all that great.  At … Continue reading Three Weeks in Russia

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No Longer an U. Akron Student

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I tried to transfer my calculus 2 class from Tri-C to the University of Akron.  No luck.  In fact, because I took it outside of U. Akron, I’m no longer a student.  Nice.  So now I have to transfer back in as a new student.  Doing so will require an additional 3 or so more classes I will have to take, so I’m going to wait and take them at Tri-C, then transfer everything over. Continue reading No Longer an U. Akron Student

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Olessia’s Fit

Rob

Olessia just purchased this 2009 Honda Fit Sport.  She ordered it a couple weeks ago and word was it would be 8 to 10 weeks for it to come in (6 weeks just to ship!).  The dealer pulled some strings and got one a bit sooner.  So Friday the dealer called and told Olessia the car was in.  She ran over to the dealer and did some paperwork while they spent the day preping the car.  She picked it up at 5pm and it was just about good to go (it was missing floor mats since they thought they were … Continue reading Olessia’s Fit

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Broadband Speed Increase

Rob

Awesome.  My cable company doubled the Internet bandwidth at the cable modem.  They sent a mailer, which I have an instinctive response to throw the mailer out.  This time I looked it over and they weren’t selling anything.  I read it again and they provided instructions on how to reset the cable modem to get the faster bandwidth. I had to put in a tech support call since the bandwidth testing I did didn’t show any change.  A big “doh!” on my part, the connection worked fine when plugged into the cable modem.  For a moment, I thought my router … Continue reading Broadband Speed Increase