Thomas, my roommate moved out this week – he bought a house in a nearby city. While I wish him the best, the search for a new roommate has begun – not in earnist though. Im pretty picky about the roommates I get so the search may take a while. I’m probably going to get a grad student from BYU. Someone who’s studious and preferably in an engineering dicipline so they won’t mind sharing the DSL bill, one who doens’t party yet is social.

Thomas’ DSL connection won’t be in for another month or so and his DirectTV wont be setup for a week so some of his stuff is still here – his Tivo is recording all his shows and he asked me to help him build a cantenna so that he can get a connection from his house to one of our friends’ that lives in his area. We’ll be going over there to test one of my cantennas today and see what type of signal we get and where it’s stongest (if we get a signal at all).

I currently use a cantenna type waveguide antenna in my shop to get an network connection from there to my access point two floors away. It works fairly well and I can at least function despite the occational dropped signal.

Thomas has such a small amount of stuff (which isn’t a bad thing) that all of it fits in one room of his new house – so it’s pretty empty there apparently and the walls echo a bit. Despite the fact that you can’t see anything when you look inside, he has been thinking that his house might be broken into and in, what he admits is his “subtly paranoid mind”, he has created some statistics that for some reason he thinks are true since he can create some scenario in his mind where it might happen. For example, he wonders at night if he’s going to get burglarised since he has convinced himself that “most burglaries happen to new homes”… 8^) right. He has no real statistics to back that up and readily admits it. So, having told this to a group of friends when we went to lunch the other day, we immediately proceeded to make fun of him – “…you don’t have anything that a theif would want to break in and take anyway” – which is almost certainly true. He took offence.