Fired up the computer and tested both the esp8266-01's they work:

wdt reset

load 0x40100000, len 1320, room 16

tail 8

chksum 0xb8

load 0x3ffe8000, len 776, room 0

tail 8

chksum 0xd9

load 0x3ffe8308, len 412, room 0

tail 12

chksum 0xb9

csum 0xb9

2nd boot version : 1.3(b3)

SPI Speed : 40MHz

SPI Mode : QIO

SPI Flash Size : 8Mbit

jump to run user1

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ready

AT+GMR

AT version:0.23.0.0(Apr 24 2015 21:11:01)

SDK version:1.0.1

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OK

AT+CWMODE=3

OK

AT+CWJAP="removed","removed"

WIFI CONNECTED

WIFI DISCONNECT

+CWJAP:1

FAIL

AT+CWLAP

+CWLAP:(4,"MYSSIDE",-74,"MYMACADDRESS",9)

OK

But as you can see my access point is too far away. Being on the second floor at one end of the house and the router is in the basement on the other side of the house. Go figure. I planned to use a separate wireless router anyways. So its not to big of a set back. Next up get my arduino mini's coded and some code for the esp8266's to be sensor nodes.