Then after we got home, Jeffrey dug out an MST3K classic, Space Mutiny. Miss it if you can.

And finally, we watched the end of The Towering Inferno after dinner. I want to find the Second City parody and watch it — I think the acting was better!

FRS Technology, eh?

The wrist radios I got Jeffrey for Hanukkah claim to use “FRS Technology”. Our friends had bought their daughters two FRS handy-talkies for Christmas, so when we got together last night, we tried to make the wrist radio talk to the handy-talkies — no dice. I tried all 14 FRS channels, and the two units couldn’t hear one another (that’s not strictly true — the wrist radio detected but couldn’t make any sense of the FRS radio; the FRS radio couldn’t tell that the wrist radio was in the room). I’m going to have to find some way of telling what frequency the wrist radio actually uses. I did find some Web ads for the radio, claiming a 100-foot range — as I said yesterday, about as far as we could yell!

The weather is beautiful today (partly cloudy, mid-60s), so we took a little walk before lunch. Jeffrey put on his Rollerblades and zipped ahead of us (as usual), and we used his wrist radios to stay in touch. Or at least we tried — I think we could actually yell over more distance than the radios would cover. But it was fun to play with the radios anyway, and we got some interesting comments from neighbors as we passed.

Time to go watch The Towering Inferno before visiting friends for dinner.