Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day.

The first Saturday of November is Teach a friend to homebrew day. Is it always fun to get others hooked on your hobby. The more people that brew, the more beers you get to try!
Since I belong to the local Homebrew club, it would be a great chance to try to drive up our membership. Food, beer, and brewin'.
But, we will not be doing that. Instead we will be having the chili cook off this day. It will be at my house, same as last year. It will be fun, and I shouldn't gripe. Just don't understand why this club doesn't do more. Or try to get our membership up.
Anyway, I will be cooking up a pumpkin chili this year. It is the season and all.Might even have a pumpkin beer to match it with.

Wet and nasty day.

Been rainin' on and off for about 18 hours now. Pool cover is starting to collect a good bit of water. Last year I didn't take care of it like I should, so this year I will try a little harder.
I kegged two beers yesterday. An Extra Pale Ale, and a big IPA. Hope the hop flavor comes out in both. I fill force carb them some time today, then we will know.
My back has been messed up for a month or so now. It is in the muscle. But always hurting. After moving the beers, lifting them up and over the edge of my chest freezer, oh, and helping Travis remove the steps from his pool, I am hurting. Hurting bad. I had to roll out of bed into the floor this a.m.. Plan to eat something soon just so I can take something for the pain.

Going to host a chili cookoff here at the house on November 1st. The beer club is coming over, so should have lots of beers and chili on hand. Can't wait.
B

Back in WV

Our trip to Asheville,NC is now over.
It was a great trip. Lots to see and do for me while the wife was in class.
The food, beer, breweries, and people are all worth seeing. Or, eating,drinking...?
I have never seen so many damn hippies in one place before, but not a problem.
I ran to work today to try and catch up on a few things, and will do that same Tuesday. Then back to work full time on Wednesday.
Oh,,,, it is late and already Tuesday..
Having more troubles with cams freezing up, and that damn %20 that shows up when you click the blog link. But, I now have a third computer to set up somewhere in the house. My mother and her husband had to drive 3 or 4 hours to bring their dog to us to look at. It is a sick puppy. Anyway, we made it back home from our trip and met the family at the house and ran over and opened the hospital. An hour or so later, they were back on the road. Left me an old computer to fix and play with. Will use it here for the website, or as a back up for work. If I do use it for the site, will need to get my hands on some more video input devices, cameras, etc. But that is the way I am headed. Will need a new hard drive, memory, and a copy of windowsXP. So it will be a while.But who knows, might have two to four more cameras up soon....
Feeling better last few days. Well, my back is shot, and my knees are gone, but I am tryin' to feel better about life. I bitch a lot, little to damn fat, and get mad to easy. Seems like the mountain air helped me in the head.

This post should not be read by anyone under 18, will be bad words............

I wanted to do this site when I was on the road all the time. I wanted to see my family. I wanted friends and family to be able to stop in once and a while. I also liked the security side if the cameras. Well look here, 5 hours on the road, 5 states in one day and I am in Asheville, NC.

And every damn camera I have, all fucking six of them are down. ALL FUCKING SIX of them.
My babysitter, asked if once in a while she could shut down the livingroom camera, and I said no. NO.... Just push the chair in front of it I said. Well five hours on the road, and I fire up my laptop. Three cameras are gone. This morning, the other 3 are gone.
How can I see my kids, how do I know the house is OK? The cats? The dogs? Wife wanted to be able to see the kids as we called every day. Now we wont be able to..... These damn cameras have been up for a long fucking time with no troubles.... A power outage here and there, but always up.... Now I want them, and they are gone.
I don't give a shit if some people don't understand this little hobby. Hell, I am not sure why I want cameras up in my house..... But I do know one thing.... It is MY FUCKING HOUSE...........
Can't wait to hear the reason. Power went out, kids messed them up,,,,, But all six cameras??? Two computers???????
Bullshit.....

!@&$#!*$!* !@#$%^*&^ DOG !!!!!

Well, woke up this A.M. to find my computer (Pluto) was not connected to the net. So I go to check the router and find that it is the cat-5 cable that has been chewed. This is now the third time. I was able to slice and dice it back together before running the boy to school. And you can't begin to know what I want to do to this dog.It isn't just my cat-5, it is everything. Brand new dog beds,the boys toys, anything IT can get in its @#&*^)$ mouth. Then the holes being dug in the back yard. Or the fact that he somehow gets out of the yard and we need to chase him.
Just how many times can you splice a cat-5 before it stops working? I have no idea, but I will tell you this. It will not happen again. I have some dried Super Chili's, and dried Super Cayenne(sp?) peppers in the kitchen window. I plan to grind these up to a fine powder, mix with a little something sticky, and paint all my wires in the back room. I just hope to god the little thing tries to bite into one after I am done.
Gotta get working.
B

Been a while.

Figured I would write something. Not sure what yet, but something will come.
Been having more problems with the software that moves the two cameras. It is a program called BDLCAM. It is a free program, but the guy ask for donations. As much as I like and use this program, I have yet to come up with some cash to send. I know I should. Someone puts this much work into something, he deserves something. Anyway, over the past few weeks this program kicks out on me. I will be at work, check the cams, and the controls are gone. The cam will be stuck in the last position that someone put it in and no longer move. I check it when I get home and it says "run time error". I then reset everything, and it works again for a while. Can't write the dude and ask, because I haven't sent him money. But I don't get many hits on this site, and people are not upset that the PTZ's freeze up, so I am not worried about it right now.
Halloween is coming up soon. So we have put up the pumpkins, and some decorations. wife loves this time of year, the weather is great, and I guess I do also. I just hate what comes with it. Shutting the pool down, the the trees dropping the leaves, the plant starting to look dead. And then comes winter. That sucks even more.Hell, if it is going to be cold, we should get some damn snow! But we never get enough to make winter worth it.
I have yet to find some good wide angle cameras to put in the kitchen or dinning room. Haven't been looking to hard, but I do look. Would love a few more cameras going. A new computer upstairs, and I can add even more. But that is down the road.
Talk at you later.