Packed up the whole family and headed over to CJ’s place tonight. We had a great time chatting and getting to know each other. It was nice to hang out with people who had kids so we didn’t have to constantly chase ours around going “Oh no… put down the glass decoration. Oh no… don’t set the kitty on fire. No no.. don’t put the expensive thing in your mouth.”

I think we decided that was our first meeting. LOL. Hopefully the next one will be a little more tech centric. =)

Midway through CJ handed me a new in the box Intel Pro 5000 Access Point. Looks like it’s one of the ones from Seattle Wireless’ HackNight. They promptly took theirs apart and started a wiki entry on it. It doesn’t look like they’ve got much down about it at the moment but we’ll see what I can do with it.

I guess I’m supposed to get it hooked up to the satellite dish I’ve got and get it pointed at Everett. I’ve got Justin’s copy of O’Reilly’s Wireless Hacks so we’ll see what I can do. Maybe I’ll get out there this week and take my dish down from the back porch and haul it to the next meeting. I’m dieing to try out the cordless cold soldering iron my father-in-law got me for my birthday.

So I’m sitting at my desk at home with this box and I open it up and check it out. I’m feeling like I’m in a movie where I’m in a hotel room and the bell boy has delivered a package. I’m supposed to open it up and figure out what to do with it before the spies catch me. lol.

Anywho. Had a great time and now I get to hack on stuff. I didn’t get a chance to talk to CJ about Public IP. I still have SOME reservations about an open access point with access to MY internet IP. I don’t want all my bandwidth sucked up and I don’t want crazy crap being downloaded on what is essentially my account. But I’m sure we’ll get to chatting about that.