Christmas, cameras, work, New Years

Well, Christmas is over.
The kids are happy. Well, for now. They had some great gifts. One gift "the girl" had was the Nintendo Wii. One gift I gave "the wife" was the Wii fit. And one gift she gave me was a Zelda game. I grew up on Zelda. And I love it. If I am standing up or even sitting down to play this game, I forget to drink! And if I am not drinking beer, well, I guess that is a good thing. Which brings me to my wife's gift of the Wii fit. I set up the game and the little pad, box, thinging that you stand on. Well in doing so you need to set you "person" up and then stand on this thing. Long story short, it set an age for me of 61!!!!, Oh and it said I was the O word. You know. The word that comes after over weight.
Now, I know I am fat. I have been fat since my first marriage. For three years of high school I was at 165 Lbs. at 6 foot 3 inches. I know weigh,,,, wait for it............ wait.......... 245. And I seem to have lost an inch. I am now at 6 foot 2.
Is the extra weight making me slump an inch?
I don't know. But I know I am fat. I have known that I am fat for 15 years. I don't need a computer game to tell me that. I don't need said game to make a noise when I step on to the pad, but it did. I don't need this game to make my little person that I made even fatter then I did when I created it, but it did. SO. As of Jan. 1st. I plan to change many things. The amount of beer I drink is the first thing to be changed. I don't really eat. Not much anyway. But I also don't really move around much. So I figure a change here and there, I should be good!.. Well, I hope.
And did I say that I like Zelda! hehe, It has been around one way or the other for years.
I did add the kitchen camera. It like the dining room camera, isn't always on. But it will be more and more in the next year. The problem with the kitchen camera is that it isn't a wide angle lens. It only picks up half of the kitchen. I can't afford to buy any other camera at this time, so it will need to do. I have thought about adding a second kitchen camera and set them side by side and somehow put the two images together. Now, I don't know how to do this, and the one person I know who does is a little busy as of late. I don't want to bother him with some thing so small as my website. So the picture you get for now is the pic you get.
Every New years is about he same in my house. I wake up the wife as the ball drops, and she rolls over and goes back to sleep. Not much will change this year. Lets just say that I will be awake. AND I will be sure to stay awake most of the night.
I will say it out loud. I will type it here. If I do, I might make a change or two in my life.
By July 10th or so I hope to be 20 to 30 Lbs. less.
The only way to do that is to move more! Drink less, and ???????? I don't know. But I do know that I am in the worse shape of my life.
Wish me luck.

New camera added.

Well after plugging away at the computer for hours I figured out my problem and got a new camera going. I was working with ports on my router, settings in WebcamXP, settings in the web page, and finally figured out the problem. I had set up the IP on this system the right way, just in the wrong place. I added a wireless USB drive to this computer to network. That is where I needed to set up the IP. Not on the internal network card. I learn, slow, but I learn. So, I have one webcam set up in the living room. The link to the kitchen camera goes to this same camera. I will change that when I get the other webcam going. Wife is far from happy. So the camera hasn't been up much today. It was our day off after all. I wish she liked the site as much as I do, but she doesn't. When the dining room and kitchen camera are up I plan to have them off most of the time. Sad, but I need to give a little. I plan to build something for the living room PTZ soon and stick it outside. That is where I was always going to put it, it has just got pushed back on my list for a while. But look it here, after two years or so this site has finally started becoming what I always wanted. Well, except the design part! But a little at a time I guess.
For Christmas this year, my wife told me to order some things to finally get into all grain brewing! I can't wait to make my first batch. Might be able to shot for the middle of January.
I am sure I will be missing those last little things, and wont even know it until I am in the middle of the brew.But it will be fun. Oh, and I am still missing one more brew pot. So I guess I will need to spend a$100+ to purchase a used beer keg. They are far to hard to find now-a-days.(Legal kegs anyway). So I will need to buy one. I wont bother to bitch about the keg I HAD for this. But I will tell you I will never see it again.
Enough for now. Look for the kitchen camera soon. I will keep adding cameras as long as I can! Wife did say that once the cameras make it to the second floor, or third floor, she is gone. And since I do like her, I guess I will keep them down stairs!

Sad, little happy, but sad.

I broke into my second bottle of Rogue Imperial India Pale Ale. I only had two bottles, and I took one bottle to a meeting and was nice enough to share. Had I knew how good this beer was, I would have drank it in the basement.With no one to watch, and without pants. Don't get me wrong, I like to share. But at this time my cash runs low. And this beer is GOOD. $16.00 good? I don't know. If I was rich, it would be GOOD everyday. I haven't been brewin' beer, so my taps run low. I spent too much time on Mead. But in a year or so, I will have a good bit on hand to drink. On the plus side I hope to be jumping into all-grain in the next month or three. I hope my beers go to the next level.

On the website side, I have a third desk top computer up and running. The keyboard and mouse needs to be replaced. The monitor is old and a little big, but it works for now. And after running some major software on this computer (Thanks Travis), I only found about 1700 problems.The computer is still over loaded with programs and software that isn't needed. I wish I could take it back to a copy of XP and nothing else but I have no idea how to do that. So, I am running it as is. I added a few programs, but haven't add webcamXP yet.
I hope to have two webcams up soon.(soon as I pick up two of the cheap ones). One for the dining room, and one for the kitchen.Later when I find some video cards, I will add a few more cameras. But so far it is just running Seti at home, and what ever else is in the background that I haven't gotten rid of yet. I don't have a restore disk, and I am not smart enough to restore the computer without one. But like I said, it is running. I am going to fix up a slide show of family photo's in the next week or so, set up a link to the desk top, and let her run. Hell, only 4 people come here anyway, and they don't look around too much. But I will just pretend this computer is a big picture frame.
Sorry, I will read this later. But for now I will just post it. I am sure it is a messed up as all my other post, but I really don't care.I just post because I can.What hte hell is grammer??!!!!!
And yes, I love the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
See ya...
B

Sick

I wont go into details. I wont tell you how much time I have spent(sitting) in the little room in the house with a trash can in my hands as fluid leaves my body two different ways at the same time.
Oppps, sorry. But I will tell you, it is bad. Real bad. And as a big drinker, I have had my days of tossing my cookies. But never with this much force. For two days I have sipped on water, only to loss it later. I did manage to eat two crackers on Tuesday, but nothing else. I am sure I picked this up from my boy. When you send them off to pre-school they are going into a germ factory. He has also been expelling fluids with lots of force.
You know it is bad if I haven't had a beer for close to three days now!
Well, the cameras are still up. I need to reset some of them every day. And once in a while one of my computers will crash taking 3 cameras with it. But, I am still working on the site. Hope that by the 1st of the new year I will have the kitchen and dinning room cameras up. I will not leave these cameras on at all times, the wife doesn't like the ones I have, let alone add more.
Speaking of the site. I have my first donation! After many months, someone decided to send me some money! It was a little bit of a joke when I added the Donate button, and didn't believe anyone would ever click it. So I guess it is ok that the button was somewhat of a joke that the person who donated sent me $0.05 US

Rest in Peace Jackie.

Lost a family member this week.

The kids are crushed.
She lived a good, long life and will be missed.

Christmas???

Time is going to fast for me. Not sure how many more ticks I have left on my clock, and it keeps going past me. I still need to get the lights and decorations up! Thursday is our day off, and the day we try to get those little things done. So I was going to get the outside lights and stuff up, but the day has already been planned out. Hope to have something up in time to take it down....
Today was a bad day at work. As most are now, but this day ended very bad. I will post more on that later. Not in the talking mood about sad things tonight.
Looking at taking the guest book off. Just taking up space, and only a few have signed it. But people can't get to this blog most of the time either.
For Christmas I would like 365 bottles of Rogue XS IIPA. If you gotta ask, well you don't know beer. But let me tell you, it is by far the best India Pale Ale I have ever had. So if you have $5,475 dollars or so, and you can even find this beer, feel free to send it my way!!!!! hehe

Site problems

I can't get on my site today. I could from work, and when I got home. But it is now off.
I am not sure what is going on just yet. I thought it was a server issue, and the server monkey just needed a Nanner, but now I am not sure. The server is not here at my house, it is at a friends. The only reason I am confused is because I see that a few people are watching my cams...?. I have three people on the back computer and two on the front computer. If it is a server isssue, why are these people able to get on? I thought it was my laptop so I tried other computers, IE, Foxfire, and now I am lost. Anyway, I am sure this isn't a big deal. Just goes to show you how little I know about web shit.
Camera's are up and down. Server problems once and a while. Power supply issues. And a geek wanna be who can't figure it out......

Camera move

I have moved the Back Yard camera indoors. the cold was just to much for it. I think. Not sure if it is the power supply or the camera. The video did not get better after the move.So I went and changed the camera. The PTZ1 that I used instead has better video, but it is loud when it moves.
I have a number of these cameras, and each one has one little problem or the other. It is getting far too hard to find these Picturetel cameras. You might find one on E-bay once and a while, but those days are gone.I also have some Ptz2's. These cameras are even better, but they have tiny little belts that stretch out, once that happens the movement is shot. Everyone I have is in need of new belts.
Need a flat panel computer monitor, and a few more video input devices, and I will have a few more cameras up and running.
Also working on a Mash Tun. The cart,cooler, and pumps are done. I have a manifold and sparge arm built, just need to finish them up.Drill some holes, cut some slots, etc.
The fittings, new burners,grain crusher, hoses, etc. Will cost a bit, so I am on hold the finished project. Same with the computer.
But, I gotta say. Besides money problems. Problems at work. Employee problems, etc. I have been feeling good. Fat as ever, but feeling good.
Now, just to get past Christmas, take care of the problem issues at work, and figure out how to make more money.
Till next time.