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According to this site here, the local ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX channels are already uplinked and it is only a matter of time before they 'go live'.

From what I can tell, it is supposed to happen late April or early May 2008. The only channel I can receive OTA without use of a massive UHF Yagi antenna is WZZM 13, which broadcasts not too far away from here. Unfortunately if I use signal boosters to amp the other channels, TV 13 becomes too overpowered for my TV. Honestly, I haven't spent much time on the problem overall.

Ideally, for the best picture quality, I'd love to be able to pull all the stations in OTA but it just isn't going to happen where we live. Maybe when everything switches over to UHF in early 2009, we will receive better OTA signals.

I've been writing up a blog entry for this all week but haven't quite completed it yet. I've wanted to post it earlier but this week has been one big Murphy's Law in one way or another. I do this site in my free time and my free time has been non existent for the most part since flying back to Michigan.

I fly out Sunday afternoon, as long as the FAA doesn't decide to do more airplane inspections. I'll be in Seattle/Redmond until Thursday night. I'm hoping to see some familiar faces and meet many new ones.

In other, rather strange news, I have obstructive sleep apnea and it is pretty bad. I had a sleep study a few weeks ago and I stopped breathing at least 65 times overnight, which worked out to be about every 4 minutes.

I'll most likely end up getting a CPAP machine, so I will end up sounding like Darth Vader at night, but most likely sleep much better.

I spent part of last night and part of tonight watching a guy wearing a horse mask play guitar and drums, while rocking out to various songs. He did this for four hours straight last night. I still don't understand why it was so entertaining, but I'm not going to question it.

If you want to see Mr. Hands Returns doing Michael Jackson's "Can't stop until you get enough", check out this YouTube video here.

And of course, he also performed Rick Ashley, saved on video here.

If you want to see what all the fuss is about, check out Y! Live.

It might be one of those "You had to be there" situations to understand why it was so funny at the time. Definitely an unintentional use of technology if I have ever seen one.