Here are the currently scheduled MOYAK, AAKS, and KAMO tournaments. KAMO is tentative, but it helps everyone plan. Click in here for an embedded calendar!
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JCKF July 2023 Bass Tournament
This tournament will follow the KBF Competition Rules Standard for 2023 with NO MINIMUM LENGTH and NO FISHING OUTSIDE OF THE KAYAK (wading, fishing from the bank, fishing from a dock, etc). Competitors must launch from a County approved launch area and must stay within the bounds of county park territory. Creeks and streams connected to the…
2023 Jackson County Kayak Bass Tournaments
UPDATE: May, 20 Tournament is live on TourneyX I’ll be hosting kayak bass fishing tournaments on the Jackson County, MO lakes. This includes Blue Springs, Jacomo, Prairie Lee, and Longview lakes. Species will be Black Bass (Largemouth, Spotted, Smallmouth, etc.) Dates for this year are: This tournament will follow the KBF Competition Rules Standard for…
FTM-300D MARS Mod
I took my Yaesu FTM-300D on a bit of a ride today! I had been intending to do the MARS mod on it for a while and after reading some instructions and watching a video, I finally cracked it open. I backed up my setting to an SD card and went to work. To be…
SharePoint Archive with Azure File Storage and Cosmos DB
Two things to get out here first: 1. I can’t believe I’m using so many Microsoft products and 2. I really dislike SharePoint (I’d say hate, but I’m trying to keep positive here). In this particular instance, there was a size/performance limitation of a SharePoint site. The owner of the data wanted all of the…
Azure SQL Server Empty Datetime Handling
I’ve had a few instances where a datetime column gets populated with an empty string. When accessed these come out as either “1900-01-01 00:00:00.000” or “1899-12-30 00:00:00.000”. I was converting these from datetime to date and tried using CASE() to present NULL instead of the incorrect date. Turns out, if you do the CONVERT() anywhere…
Photo: Moon, Contrails, and Lens Flare
Coming home a few nights ago, I noticed the contrails behind this jet and how they were illuminated by the Moon. I took a quick shot and put on a couple filters to accentuate the glow. I’m always telling my kids to look around. “I’m bored!” they’ll yell while we’re driving somewhere and they don’t…