Wireless System Wanted

Someday I would like to replace my three wireless devices that I service from three separate providers with three of the same type of devices with one bill from one provider. 

[1] I have a cell phone with USC (U. S. Cellular) 

[2] a cell phone with ATT (A T & T)

[3] and a broadband card with Sprintpcs. 

[W] I need one simple provider to provide me it all with better equipment and lower monthly cost and provide me with as good of phone as I have with ATT (Treo 650) with all the features I like. 

I like the ATT cell phone and base rate but I do not like getting charged for incoming text or calls.


To get that type of wireless cell phone from USC you have to get the internet service at an additional $40 on to the bill.  I do not need that feature but I do want the Treo type of phone.  They will not do that so I do not like their phones but I do like the free incoming calls and text.

Is it logical that a wireless company could easily provide three wireless units with all the features on each unit?  I recall when I said that about printers with the ability to scan, copy, fax, and auto feed or flatbed all in one.  Now it is common and affordable (I like my Brother Color unit that does it best so far with 11x17 option). I am throwing my LexMarks and HP printers away soon.


I like the Sprintpcs broadband card and the people at the store locally are the most helpful and smart.  All three companies have "Customer No Service" online.  I like to deal that way but I have to beam up because their is no intelligent wireless service providers online that I have found so far.



When all else fails, I post my wants on a blog and I usually get what I want. 


I want to combine all three into one wireless service for less or same price total ($150/mo), have two cell phones that will do what my Treo 650 will do or more, have my broadband card so I can plug it into my router for my office wireless system or take it on the road in my notebook, and have it all with one simple service provider.


Someday I will find such a deal and the world will make a path to that service and more business minded people like me can enjoy the better service and equipment for less cost and work.

If you are such a provider for the Tulsa OK area, contact me though my website at gbreisch.com and let me know.

It Starts with a Drop of Water

Can you picture a drop or rain water falling to the earth. It and many more drops begin falling to the ground to become a flood. FEMA calls this flood of raindrops that occur on an average of once in 100 years as the type of flood that can determine the Base Flood Elevation or BFE. The BFE is an elevation (contour line) on a creek or drainage way that can be shown by FEMA on their Flood Maps. The BFE line has an elevation shown on it that we as surveyors can find on the ground to compare to actual elevations on the ground. That way we can see if the BFE flood elevation is above or below any real points we measure near to that BFE line or interpolated between two BFE lines.

FEMA also "shade areas" to indicate areas that flood without a BFE line. So how do we determine the "BFE flood" Elevation for the map areas without a BFE line?

You need the "Basis of BFE Determination" which FEMA either will not provide you or is making it so difficult that most surveyors give up in the process trying.

Once understand what it takes to determine the BFE, then it is all a matter of surveying and plugging in all the data into the formulae or into a program that will result in a BFE. The greatest Mystery is the quantity of rain over a period of time that it takes to create a BFE STORM. You would think that someone who shades those maps would have such data. So where is it and who and what determines that 100 year RARE RAIN?

My first thoughts would be climate data statistics. Who has those statistics? If they do then how are they justified or determined when we do not have access to the data over thousands of years or even hundreds of years of rain gages or flow gages around the world? Does someone consult with the ALMIGHTY to get this data from HIM or what?

I will find out while I am alive in this system or later in a new system and you can help solve this mystery by searching and seeking and asking questions. Who will crack the FEMA MYSTERY?

Truth in Credit Reporting

Have you been ripped off, scammed, screwed, or mistreated by Bank of America, Chase, or the so called Credit Reporting Agencies such as Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, or AT&T or Cingular or Dell Financial (division or connected to Dell Computers) or Time Share companies? 

ON THE POSITIVE SIDE:

Is there a true credit reporting place that is consumer friendly, pro-consumer, and not in bed with the companies that rip you off?

Where do you go if you have a credit report or experience to report about a company or agency that has ripped you off? 

Do you suspect that there are companies that have employers who get away with taking your money in the name of the company that they work for or control? Do you suspect that companies look the other way and do not mind lowering your good credit and trash you and get away with it in the name of charging you more?

I will plan to be describing in detail how these entities have and if they have since redeemed themselves soon.  Leave your comments if you have and describe your experiences with them and we can compile them for presentation to the public and seek solutions and keep it from happening again to us and others.

I discovered Blogger that allows AdSense

I discovered Blogger that allows AdSense

I have been trying to figure out how to get ads on my website for several years now. I heard I could get paid for it but have had no one show me how. Like most things I learn, I discovered how, in my various activities to learn more by browsing, searching each evening when I wind down and just before I retire for the evening.

I do not recall how I came across another free Blog site but I just decided that I would take time to give it a try and set it up. Near the end of the setup procedure, I recall a message about adding Google AdSense and got my head into it enough to start the set up of it. I was getting tired and it was getting late and I was not sure I had set it up so I quit at a certain point. The next day, fresh in mind, I got on another computer to find that I had sent myself or had received email about the setup and more instructions how to create the “code” to somehow insert into Blogger and other sites that allow access to the setting and AdSense.

This brought back memories of all the times I have tried to get help on this and figure out my strangely formatted website at http:\\gbreisch.com\gwb which I used to give out as www.gbreisch.com to see if I could insert the code somehow. My son had set up that site and it allows me to got into the admin panel and change content to some extent. It is very hard to change much of the page arrangements and I will have to play with it and get much more experience and help before I will even come close to the skills of my son with websites.

I was finally able to insert the code that was provided by the AdSense setup procedure into several of the many page “windows” of my main website. I have had so much more fun with WordPress that I have not been editing and updating or spending much time with my main website. I had to change the global update format to html instead of the wysiwyg option in order to insert the code. Then if I went back in with the visual mode of wysiwyg, then I could not see the code and accidentally erased it without knowing it if I changed much else while in the visual mode of editing.

I had way too many “PayPal” buttons in the windows so when I went back to delete them in the visual mode and if they were just under the “invisible” AdSense code, the AdSense code would get erased and I had to go back into with html and paste the code in again. The results were not very consistent and I am not sure I like how the Google Ads show up or if I will be able to gain any $$$ from them.

I will keep you posted as to my progress if I have anyone comment on this. Maybe I can help others even though know one except the Bloggers site helped me. By the way, I am going to try to use the Bloggers site more to see if I like it as much as WordPress. It appears that WordPress will not allow you to make any money with the addition of AdSense. The verdict is not in and I have a few more experiments to do with another website I have called http://www.ski-unique.com/ and will plan to play with the new http://gbreisch.blogspot.com/ before I try much more with the Ski-Unique site. Please visit http://gbreisch.wordpress.com/ to see all the stuff I have accumulated on it. Notice at the top that I have various sub-pages and a page with my contact information on it. I hope to have some way to have a contact page on the Blogger site soon.

Did I say that the AdSense works great at the http://gbreisch.blogspot.com/ site? It does!!!
Now let’s see if I can make a bit of $$$ to pay for some of this education, software, and hardware someday.

Send me money if you can at PayPal at gary@gbreisch.com or just email me - it will be worth your time and will bless you.
Wish me luck and pray for my & your success and Decide to be Happy all the time please.

Aerial photo vs true WGS84 point position on maps

Above is a clip of the overall map better 2008 map I found online.
I was going to insert it below the smaller clip below but I am still trying to get used to this blog format and how to move and edit image inserts.

We need to know. We need a central cooperative system to manage true positions or a way to qualify the positions as to accuracy.
Map Lat/Lon as shown by address - how correct is it on Google Earth or other maps that can look up and show a picture of the house or lot?
As a surveyor I have also found that when I find the true lat/lon using WGS84 datum, I many times get a different position that the exact same object or point I see on the photo overlay. For example, let me look up an address such as 9111 Freedom Ave, Sapulpa, OK 74066 with Google Earth on 20090913:


I have been there, I surveyed that area, and I know that other map locations true lat/lon locations are about 74 feet east and about 14 feet north of the photo position of any point in that area. This particular address/photo location is good and I know it matches up with reality even though the location on the true grid of the photo may be off as much as 80 feet East-North-East here.

How does a person contact the outfit that positions the photo on their grid for their maps. Let me know when you find out because there is little to know contact link to seek answers or a better map or system to quality or correct or certify any of this information except for maybe a few of us Land Surveyors who care enough to try or even understand that the errors exist.

By the way - that aerial view is OLD and that area has changed a lot. There is good 2008 and soon, 2009 county maps available on line downloadable - very big and time consuming to download but available for us to download with patience and high speed connections. Too bad they cannot connect them online to view online like existing OLD aerial overlays. We have come a long way but we can sure integrate what we have better for improvements.