The day is still young, but I thought I'd go ahead and put something up here. I may circle back and update it later... or... I may not. I guess it really depends on whether something in the quiet recesses of my mind decides that I need to circle back and update it.

I discovered last night that Robert M. Kerns, Author, has a knowledge panel on Google. That totally suprised me. Was not expecting that at all.

So, being the geek that I am, I clicked "Claim this knowledge panel" because... well... I'm obviously me. Right?

Apparently, Google does not agree.

Now... in all fairness... I was half-asleep when I tried to claim the panel last night, so I figured I'd give it another try today.

Still no joy.

I submitted a request for assistance to Google, and I'm hoping we'll be able to resolve the issue. I have to admit that it's kinda cool that I have a knowledge panel, and I'd like to see what all I can do with it.

In other news...

It's raining right now, and while it's not a torrential downpour, it does seem to be enough that our old HughesNet connection would have been impaired. Starlink--however--is not. Well... not anymore than the trees surrouding the house already impair it. My goal for tomorrow--assuming tomorrow is rain free--is to prep the post I bought for it, mount Starlink, and set the post.

I want to be hopeful that putting the dish 13-ish feet in the air will make headway on reducing the obstructions, but I'm a realist. I'm not expecting my first attempt to be an overwhelming success. As I believe I wrote last night, my ultimate solution is a guyed 75-foot ham radio tower with a hinged base. Except I'm really, really hoping to reach an acceptable solution before that.

One of my favorite sayings from my IT years was, "I always win. I don't always win the way I expect to win, but I always win."

It's just a question of how many hoops I'll have to jump through before Mother Nature and I reach an understanding.