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1 million meter year

Close to a million meter year, I wrote a function to calculate the average miles per week remaining.

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function goMiles()
{
var minutes = 1000*60;
var hours = minutes*60;
var days = hours*24;

//used this to get date into the correct format for
var dd = new Date();
var ddom = dd.getDate();
var dmoy = dd.getMonth() + 1; //add one bc returns 0-11
var dyr = dd.getFullYear();
var ddate = dmoy + “/” + ddom + “/” + dyr;

//var cdate = document.getElementById(‘myDate’).value;  // get manual date input
//var foo_date1 = getDateFromFormat(“02/23/2014”, “M/d/y”); // sample from author
//var foo_date1 = getDateFromFormat(cdate, “M/d/y”); // apply manual input
var foo_date1 = getDateFromFormat(ddate, “M/d/y”); //automatic input of date

var foo_date2 = getDateFromFormat(“04/04/2014”, “M/d/y”);
var cmile = document.getElementById(‘myMiles’).value;
var miles = 621.37 – cmile; //second number for miles
var diff_date = Math.round((foo_date2 – foo_date1)/days);
var dayAve = miles / diff_date;
var weekAve = dayAve * 7;
var rndWeek = Math.round(weekAve);
runMsg.innerHTML=”Average ” + rndWeek + ” miles per week.<br>” +
“You have ” + Math.round(miles) + ” miles to go.<br>” + “You have ” + diff_date + ” days remaining. <br>” +
“Today is ” + ddate;
//alert(“Average ” + rndWeek + ” miles per week to meet the million meter goal” + cdate );
}

Kay KE10

My first electric guitar was a blue Kay from Williams Music in Worthington, Ohio.  I hacked out my first smoke on the water and crazy train on that guitar. It was traded in on a squire bullet a couple years later.   I had never been able to find reference to model numbers for this guitar, but I eventually found one on ebay in the same cobalt blue.  It sits in a chipboard case in my basement.

I still browse the ebay kay listings and I found the little blue guitars model number.  The KE10.  A google search turned up this cool catalog scan:

They made many variations of this model in the 70s and 80s. some were made in Japan,later ones were made in Korea.

This is a a guitar that was made by Teisco and sold under the Kay brand name,at least the version made in the early 70s was were made by Teisco. 

random wire antenna length

I’m working on a new antenna with google sketchup.

thanks for VEEED for this usefull information on random length wire antennas 
at 

http://www.hamuniverse.com/randomwireantennalengths.html
 
Here are the final numbers (in my opinion) in green below that would be good for a long-wire antenna: 
 
REVISED: 29  35.5  41  58  71  84  107  119  148  203  347  407  423