16 hours = No Movies

Normally, Freddy and I like to watch a movie in the evening after dinner.
That was in SoCal; up north here, things are different...

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It hit us the very first morning after the 25 hour U-Haul drive.. the sunlight coming in the window at a slightly earlier time than we are used to.... (You got the sarcasm in that right?)
Of course, I wanted to quantify it, so I found an online service that allows me to use a programming tool (Node-RED) to retrieve the sunrise/set data each day and display it.
There are many numbers to consider, but the ones that stand out are the first light and last light along with day_length. Ok. You can't work by that light, but you can actually do things, like dig a trench in the backyard WELL before sunrise, and pack shelves and work outside WELL after sunset. Trust me. Also, 16 hours of daylight days? Pffff, I'm scared of this data in winter already....

So, Freddy and I have been getting up at 5am and working till around 9:30pm. We usually have dinner around 6 pm or slightly later. Once dinner is done, we walk outside and keep working. It's broad daylight, you can't not but work.
It's a little bit bonkers, but we are sleeping (from exhaustion) better.
Enough to say that it does not leave a lot of energy, interest, or time to watch a movie in the evenings.

We did take an afternoon off to go and visit with friends (the old house owners).
(This blogs feature photo). It was a beautiful day, and their new property has a really amazing garden and shaded area that was fun to watch the kids go crazy after eating cake and then crash in their mother's arms and sleep as only babies can do.

Took me about 7 minutes to re-find the satellite I get the Americas oceanic aircraft data from.
Since most stuff was already set up, the only real variable was aiming the dish. The signal is too weak to decode which has me both a bit bummed out and a bit confused as to why.
I know I am a LOT further north and thus further away (the satellite is over the equator) and thus need to aim the dish lower to the horizon, so it's looking through more trees and air and is more off angle... But even so, it's a lot weaker than I would like. My plans to upsize the dish might have been accelerated... I am checking Facebook and Craigslist (think Trading Post) every day, but nothing that I want (10-foot solid) has shown up yet.

I spent a 16-hour day moving the Internet out of the dining room and getting the satellite dish decoding stuff set up.
Since I have more wall space than desk space, I mounted it all on the wall.

The sad thing? is that I have more to add to the wall, but still can't find the hardware. I'm now systematically unpacking/rummaging through boxes looking for the decoder hardware (Raspberry Pi's and other stuff) just to try and get back to where I was. It's depressing, frustrating, maddening, and just flat out annoying.
It speaks to the rush we packed and got out of the... Im not sure what the word is... Well, we had to get out and we did. It was rushed, there is more to the story that I am not yet ready to talk about....