During a lesser storm preceding Irene, we had a brief power surge -- just strong enough to take out the router for the internet provider. L picked up a temporary thingie to tide us over until J of Charlemont TV could bring the new equipment, so we'd at least have a connection. Apparently we weren't the only folks who lost equipment in that storm...

Anyway, today he was able to come here over the high back road, and installed all new equipment -- we are going for a slight upgrade, that will hopefully match our use patterns better (esp. L's for work). J left the old loaner and the old dish here -- too outdated to use, for the most part, and likely after Irene there may be more work to do, so he'll have a surplus of old equipment anyway.

I thought we could try turning the dish into a solar cooker, since it has a good shape to it and a mounting bracket already. Well, I just did a quick Google and was rewarded with quite a few hits on how-to's. So, that'll be a fun project when we have time to play with it.