12poundbass

Nice looking display, and congrats again on a nice walleye!

It definitely sounds like a Central Office. Based on my experience (I’m no expert by any means) the potential is there for it to take a very long time. To give you some examples why it could take a very long time, old copper cables aren’t color coated. I had a 2400 (4800 individual copper lines) pair paper cable get cut in half by a tree spade about 8 years ago. It took around 10 people working around the clock 4 days to splice it back together. That was one cable. Fiber optic is what things are being upgraded to. Fiber is difficult to get a good clean fuse on it and is usually just replaced in large sections which can take time as well.

I hear ya, it is difficult to get the motivation to go freeze your arse off. I work outside all year long, when I’m outside for work in the cold during the week it makes it more difficult to go freeze on the weekend.

I’m heading in the opposite direction. I’m not a fan of ice fishing at all and I could count on one hand how many times I’ve been out in the last decade or more. My 10 year old son has been wanting to go more and more the past couple years and is turning up the heat after he got a late Christmas gift last year that was an ice shanty. I’m not going to discourage it one bit so I guess we’ll be ice fishing more this year. If we can get on fish it isn’t that bad.

I located AT&T here in Michigan for 5 years and they have plenty of redundancy, for natural disasters, and damages due to excavation but if a Central Office (switch center) is targeted and taken out I don’t know if redundancy would be effective or not especially if the heart of the operation is compromised. Sad situation either way.

The right side of the screen is facing right the left is facing left. The top of your screen is new data the bottom is old data.

The last couple of years we were up before our son, but now that he’s older and doesn’t require as much sleep. 4 am will catch up to him around 6 pm. ?

Not in Michigan during the winter. We hibernate. I just took a power nap. Nothing like taking a nap a 6 am. ?

So what time were you awakened by an excited kid? It was 4 am when our son woke us saying he’s been trying since 3:30 to try and get back to sleep. He’s 10 and I’m guessing will be his last year he believes in Santa so we’ll let the early wake up slide. It was fun watching his excitement, nervousness, and joy opening his gifts. Less than 45 minutes later it’s all over with, he’s exploring everything he got, the wife went back to bed, and I’m left wide awake twiddling my thumbs.

We’re doing prime rib and a ham. I’m looking forward to the prime rib, it’s been forever since I’ve had some.

As far as I know you don’t even need to go to the extent of the bucket of water. Just don’t hook the transducer, and just put it in demo mode and you’ll be good. This is what I did when I got my Garmin a couple years ago, and what I’ll do if I end up getting one here in the near future.

A big thanks is in order for @deaknh03. He puts this on every year. He twisted my arm enough that I finally participated and I’m glad he did because I enjoyed it. Thanks Deak!

Mid 50’s yesterday 21 today with windchills in the single digits.

@NoShoes there’s your answer ^^^^^

From what I’ve read expanding to Atlanta.

Astrological winter started here at 5:40 am here (I believe)

We’ve had ice on our lake for over two weeks now. I took a step off our dock with one foot and it started cracking! I’ll go on it when there’s 5”. I’m not a big fan of ice let alone ice fishing. I remember one time I was ice fishing when I was about 6poundbass’s age at about 10pm and the ice shifted and shot water up the hole about 6” and that scared the ? out of me!

Tackle Warehouse is coming to Atlanta, GA next year so we’ll see what that does for everyone.

Lakeshore 4” is inland about 1” by the end of the day tomorrow. The bottom is going to fall out on this by midnight. 50 mph winds are on our way.

Sitting on the back deck here in Michigan over looking the frozen lake having some Miller Lites while it 52 degrees on December 23rd, who woulda thunk it!

There is a Cabelas outpost store about 50 minutes from me, SW is about 60 minutes in the other direction, a real Cabelas is about 2.5 hours from me, and the closest BPS is around 3 hours from me.

Looking at the diagram isn’t this basically a Carolina rig?

50’s today w/rain this evening, then switching to snow tomorrow. Only supposed to get an inch, the lakeshore is supposed to get around 4. It’s been around a week and a half since we’ve seen the sun for more than 30 minutes. Major downfall to living on this side of the big lake.

The wife got me one a couple months ago and took 24-36 hours. Every time I’ve gotten one it took at least 24 hours.

I’ve been filling and organizing mine. Still working on it but you get the drift.