This week I put away the “kitchen laptop” once and for all. We got our weather webcam working again with Dave’s old PC laptop that had been sitting in our front office unused since we moved here. With no kitchen laptop to occupy my time reformatting and partitioning, I’ve taken on a new hopeless project. … Read more
The webcam on my HBTS Rexford St. Weather Underground setup is dead. I don’t think it’s the webcam itself, it’s most likely the laptop that was hosting the webcam. That dastardly “kitchen laptop” that I’ve kept alive all. these. years. Anyhoo, since the screen on the laptop isn’t working, I have to plug it into … Read more
We haven’t completely worked out where we’re going to put it yet, but we have our webcam back running. Like last time, we’re pointing it out the front of the house, through the window. It’s pointing SOUTH, so we should be able to see systems coming in from off the Gulf. It won’t work at … Read more
Okay, maybe I’m jumping the gun a little by considering it dead already since technically it’s still serving its purpose. For those who had been following the adventures of my poor dilapidated Dell Inspiron 4100 “Kitchen Laptop” (yeah, I’m sure I’m so popular that you guys are following my laptop), yesterday was another step in … Read more
The kitchen laptop has officially been REPLACED! Finally! I haven’t been this excited about computer stuff in a really long time — I’ve been looking forward to getting a new laptop for many months, and for once I was going to save up and get something I REALLY wanted. After those months in the desert, … Read more
Hello! No pictures for today, since I’m preparing to go to bed, but here’s quickie update for the gang! 1.) My replacement, Paul, is here. Yay! Paul showed up in great spirits and so far has been taking the firehose of information quite well. 2.) Paul arrived on Thursday night. About 12 hours prior was … Read more
Greetings from a happy place! Today has been a good day. I got some 9 hours of sleep yesterday and the weather I help to forecast has finally calmed down from the ridculousness I experienced my first week here. After this blog post I plan to hit the gym for a nice long run on … Read more
Check out the current conditions at our new house! We unpacked the “kitchen laptop” this morning and with the way our home network will be set up, the only thing the kitchen laptop will be used for is running the weather station. You can click here and see how many weather stations there are in … Read more
The latest laptop trauma: I believe the fan has stopped working. Our weather station receiver that feeds the outdoor weather to our websites also has a local thermometer and while it used to read the ambient temperature pretty well next to my laptop, it’s now reading the mid-80s consistently. Maybe that’s why it arbitrarily reboots … Read more
I’ve been sorta, well, SLOW today. Last evening at about 11:30pm, I received an e-mail from my friend Susan in Norfolk about her seeing news of one of our high school classmates getting killed in Afghanistan. So I did a little research and found out that our friend, William Jefferson, was an Air Force Combat … Read more