Gonna take a break from the blog, web site, e-mails, etc.....
The cameras will be up unless something happens.
I am not feeling the best right now, in any way, and need a break.
For the Three people that have dropped me an e-mail, and you know who you are, I hope to be back soon. I promise to write soon, but not just yet. Not to happy about anything right now,and it will take me a while to sit down and write back.
As I said, if cameras kick off line, I wont fix them, if they stay up, so be it. But until I am better, I am stepping back for a while.


Talk to you later..................................................



Bks

December update.........

Well, after the last post, I am not sure what to say.
I am still here. The computers are still messed up.
Work, home life, and everything else, is still the same.
We did get a nice snow. Not what the weather man and woman called for, but is it ever?
They never have any idea what is going on. And they never will. But we did have about 3 or 4 inches. We were looking for 12 inches or so, but go figure...............
I have almost given up on this site. It is still up,I guess. I don't check the cams much anymore. But I haven't turned stuff off yet. So I guess things are ok.

I just spent close to four hours making a great dinner. It had more things in it then anything I have ever made. It was so much fun to cook. It was also very nice to eat. BUT, it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. Come on..... so much work. It was really good. But, so, much workkkkkk.
Going to have christmas dinner for the staff around 4pm Monday. Some great food for that also. Don't know if they care , or just want free food and gifts. But we will do it.
So, I am still here. The site is still here. And to the people that want me to write, well, I can't. If you want to talk to me, do what others have done. Write me at insanitycam@gmail.com


Bks

Lookin' for a reason........

To be here....
Looking for a reason to keep the site up....
Looking for a reason to get up in the morning........ What ever.......

I am sick of fighting the computer issues. And I have never really known why I do this in the firrst place... Right now I am running three desk top computers for this site 24/7.
One computer works 25% of the time for family use.
One DOESN"T work for family use, but puts the cameras out???? Why one way but not the other? Hell, I can't use IE or Firefox without this computer shutting down within 40 seconds.
The third, Well you can surf, but click a link and walk away for 5 minutes or more... Then the site you asked for might show up.
So I am sick of computer problems. The only computer that works well is my trusty laptop. And I just took it to a friend to get rid of a nasty virus/spyware/walware????? What ever.....
And to kick a dead dog, two days later I got a second bug. After 4 hours or so, I was able to get rid of this one all by my self. And believe me, that is sayin' something. I am not good with this computer stuff. And if it wasn't for travcam.com I wouldn't be here online at all. I just know what I want online, and I am only 45% there. I can't do the site like I want, and things are going wrong left and right. Not to mention my main "machine" seems to be on its last legs. And let me tell ya. When this one goes down, I don't know if I will bother. Sure, it doesn't seem like much to sit around and load software, but ya gotta remember, I MADE cables to move cameras, I forced software to work when it didn't want to, I added video cards and kicked the shit out of each one to make them work.
Short way of sayin' this is............I am worn out. On the website,work,life, whatever. I have always looked for reason I put some of my home online......Now I am looking for more reasons........ANY reasons, on why we do ANY of this.
ANY OF THIS.......................................

Well, it has happened. With all the computer problems I have been having here in the house, it was only a matter of time. My trusty laptop has come down with a virus. I have run everything I have to get rid of it. But can't touch it. I can watch the damn thing move around as I try to get rid of it. When the scans are done, it has deleted 10 to 14 pieces of the virus, but always two that it can't. Delete failed/clean failed.....What the hell.....I guess I will take this computer to someone I know, pay god knows how much to have it cleaned, and hope family pics, bank accounts, etc. are safe.....
I is pissed...................................................................

Just to much food.

My god. I was worried we wouldn't have enough food for the family. I was wrong. The fried bird was beyond great. As always. The ham was terrific. And now I feel like a long nap.
The site is still crawlin' along. It works when it wants to. I will try to work on it after the holidays.
I guess the next big thing to do is pick up a Christmas tree... Fun Fun...
But the kids will be happy. I will try to light up the house something good this year. Not to many people in the neighbor have the Christmas spirit. So I will try to shine for them all!
But after tonights holiday food fest, I think for Christams I might just order Pizza.
Bk

Turkey Day

The bird is ready. Well, ready to be cooked anyway. I injected it today and rubbed it down with all kinds of spices. Plan to drop it into the oil around 1pm.
I figure with this 14 lb bird, a 12 lb ham, and all the fixin's it should be a good day. Oh, also have a 7 lb turkey breast coming out of an oven to add to the mix.Not my idea, but we have more people coming this year, so the extra breast might come in handy. Besides, there is always room for breast....
And beer.
The living room computer was having problems. It seems like the monitor decided to fry. With no monitor, the computer updated itself, and I couldn't see to turn the cams back on. So they were down for a day or so.I replaced the dead LCD with an old CRT I had sitting around. It is big, old, and the color sucks, but it is working for now. While looking inside the computer, I did see some problems. A leaky capacitor, ten thousand pounds of dust and cat hair, and the fan on the old graphics card is no longer moving. I picked this computer up a good 10 years ago or so. Not sure how much life is left in it. Hell, just had "Mars" rebuilt, and now "Pluto" is going to the dogs... I can live with the desk top repairs. I hate it, but it isn't the end of the world when one goes down for a while. Getting them back up and running is the hard part, and I still have a few problems with the dining room computer ( like not being able to get online.... cameras go out, but I can't surf). I have the feeling that when "Mimas" (this laptop) goes down, well that WILL be close to the end of the world. I do everything from this machine. Work, payroll, taxes, surf, etc. If you ever see me in a ball on the floor it is because this computer has died.......

If you drop in on the cameras Thursday and the deck is on fire, have a beer and toast the memory of the turkey. But I have been deep fryon' for 5 years or so now. No problems yet. Knock on wood.....

Happy thanksgiving to those of you who pay any attention to it....
Bk

More computer fun..

Well, I still haven't figured out what is going on with dining room computer. I thought I was on the right track, but guess not....
And now my living room computer is dark. The monitor is dead, or the graphics card has went bad.
It's sad when you run three computers and can only surf the net from one SLOW computer..
Family is getting very upset with me. And I can't figure any of this crap out.....

The site will stay up as long as I can keep it running. No promises.

Bks

What was I going to say???

Funny thing, woke up this morning and three of my cameras have came back online...?
Not sure why, but it seems like they come and go. The network is found, then lost......... Then found again..... UNLESS I try to get on line from this computer... Then it is lost again.......... BLAHHHHHHHHHH
Not in the mood to figure this out.....

On the plus side, The 2010 vacation has been set. I have a count down timer on one of my cam pages. It is to remind me to get in shape... I wasn't the biggest guy on the beach last year.(TOO much beer), but I still look like I am 7 months along....Not to mention my hernia... LOL, OK so I do look pregnant. Belly button and all. I really need to get that fixed.(The belly button). And drop 20 lbs. or so.
We made the mistake of going on our FIRST vacation back in 2008. So this will be our third trip to the Outer Banks. I guess we have started something if I have now planned the third visit. Just need to wait till July of next year that is........ Hope I make it!

Picked up a new Turkey fryer a day ago. It will be my third. I use the hell out of them and don't take very good care of them. So had to pick this one up from Thanksgiving. I have burners, pots, and everything I need to brew beer, but don't want to load one up with oil!

Still have bills to write, so next time..... Bye

Wrap up of the day.

The day is almost over. It went very well. Walked around the mall for a few hours. Had lunch at Panera Bread, and caught a movie. "Couples Retreat. We were the only two in the movie. The movie was OK I guess.
After coming home I found that I had lost three cameras again. This time I believe it is a networking problem. I use a Linksys USB thumb drive to network this computer. It seems to be fighting the computer over IP settings. I can't remember how to fix this issue. I seem to remember that it happened once before. But my memory is short. VERY short.....

What was I sayin'?

Anyway, I hope to figure this out soon. After all, I just added two more gig's of memory to this rebuilt computer......
Sucks.......

Also, it looks like the webcamXP software is about to expire. The way this software is put out now, it looks like I will need to pay for it, or just drop these three cameras. What says you?
Anyone wanna send me the cost of the software???? LOL

November fun

Yet one more month of fun...

Lots going on this month. Wife has a B-day this Thursday. We plan to have a nice lunch, might take in a movie, and have a big steamer pot of seafood for dinner. It should be a nice day.

This year for Thanksgiving we have decided to have the family over. MOST of the family anyway. So the house should be full, and I am not sure how it will go. I see a lot of LOUD conversations going on... I plan to do most of the cooking and 98% of the drinking.I plan to deep fry a bird, cook a ham, have all the fixin's, and people are bringing more. I will stay out of the way and see how it goes. As I get older and older, it is easier to WATCH. I don't like to be seen so much. Which is strange when it comes to this website.. Someone on the guest book asked me how it feels to be watched all day long on these cameras. Well, for the most part I do not get many hits. For why I put up these cameras in the first place? I am still tryin' to figure that out. I know I am nothing to look at. The wife is purty, and we have the two kids, two cats, one rat, and now three dogs. But people still stop in and visit. Not sure why, but I love to see the cameras being used. Hear the two cameras moving around. The same person asked if we were ever caught having sex. Well, I gotta say NO. You can trust me on this, NO ONE would wants to see my white a$$ doing that.Besides, who has 3 hours to watch something like that! LOL
Oh, and the wife still hates the cameras, so she would never...................
I am working on a beer idea, so I plan to brew soon. I hate having dry taps..........
I wanted to say something else, but for the life of me can't figure out what, so I will go for now.
Have a good Thanksgiving, if you do it. Seems most people who drop in here are from over sea's. And if you don't deep fry turkeys over sea's, well you have NO idea what you are missing!!!!!!!!!!

Cold weather and ChilI !

It is that time of year again. The Beer Club that I am in loves to cook. But if you like to spend 4 to 9 hours making beer, it isn't a big jump to like to cook. We will be having the big cook off at my house again this year. What is it? I think the 4 th year that I have hosted this meeting. I won last year, but it sounds like even more people will be coming to this one. The more chili on hand the better. It will just be harder to take the prize! LOL
Still haven't closed the pool down. I am sure this will bite me in the ass, the water is now under 50 f. Getting the steps out will be a problem........
Anyway, Saturday at 6pm or so, my house will be full of people drinking good beer, and eating lots of chili! So tune in if you bother to watch these cams!

God, I bet the house will stink by the end of the night.......

Cams back up...for now..

I set up a new computer in the Dining room today. And after searching the internet for all the software ( for two cameras, linksys USB thumb drive, and a few misc. drivers) I was up and running. It took a bit more to download the free trial of webcamXP to play with, and even more trial and error to get all the IP and port stuff worked out. BUT, it looks like I have two cameras back. I figure I will need to shell out $100 bucks or so to keep them up. WebcamXP isn't cheap. Every year it cost more. But It seems like a great program. So if anyone has Some cash sitting around to and like to drop in this site.............................
I am having the motherboard, memory, and brainsssssssss, replaced on the computer that went belly up. I replaced it with a spare that I had sitting at work. This was my "Mars" machine in the dining room. I will take it back to work to replace an old machine at the front desk. I will then rebuild that computer and bring it home. Might as well use one of the two or ten cameras I have been sitting on for years. Just gotta figure out where to point said cameras... Damn crazy hobby..... Once you get passed having a camera on 24/7, you want more.... Even if you know no one in their right mind would want to look at you.

Back to the fun........

The wife and I got back to town today. Did a 4 day trip to Asheville, NC
It was OK. We did Chimney rock, and one night we visited 3 breweries.
Might need to plan a family vacation soon. Might try to go around spring break. Maybe Blackwater falls, Twin falls, or Carter caves for a few nights....? Need to get out more.
The day before we went out of town, I lost a computer. It drives the Kitchen and Diningroom cameras. I plan to rebuild this machine soon and make it better. Might use this as a reason to add a few more cameras. I missed being able to take a peak while out of town...So I hope to have it back up and running 0in a week or so.

Not that people are watchin!

Sad

October?

It is October. Wow. Time seems to slip away from me more every month. I have let this website and blog kinda slip a bit. So I thought I might drop a few lines.
This time of year web traffic drops off to nothing. The family is at school and work most of the day, so nothing really going on. I guess the few people that still drop in just wanna check up on all the animals for me!
I haven't made any beer for a while now. Not sure why. God knows I have everything I need to make 200 gallons or so sitting around the house. Might try to plan a batch before the end of the month.
I am home today with the BOY. He is running a bit hot, and has had bathroom problems all day. Not sure if it is swine flu or not. To many damn little bugs around today to make us feel like crap. I blame older doctors and the people that believed them for years about antibiotics. We have spent 40 plus years making these bugs stronger....Hell, cant even buy soap with out "antibiotic protection" built in. Come on people, let your kids eat dirt once in a while.....

But as always, I am starting to ramble...

Sorry...

I havent posted for a while. Life can get a little crazy sometimes, and I do have a very short memory. With the kids in school (two different schools) and things going on at work, I have kinda forgot about this website for a while.
Nothing much has changed around here. I did host a beer club meeting last night. It went really well and lasted till about 11:30PM
Lots of great food and beer as always. Seems like I am the new Vice President of the club. Not sure I am ready for that, but will give it a try.
The crazy ass next door neighbor got in my wifes face a night or so ago. I wasn't here (thank god for her), but heard about it later. I have talked to the husband of said crazy ass snob. I doubt anything will change, but that is ok. We don't even wave to her at this point. But she wouldn't notice anyway with her nose so far in the air. I can only figure she is beyond rich, or might be some relation to a queen somewhere. Because she seems to believe she is SOMETHING. I hate fake ass people..... And did I mention she has a glass of wine in her hand 24 hours a day? Nothing wrong with that. Hell, I have a beer at all times.... But I treat people like people.... I don't pretend to be somebody....... I don't believe my shit don't stink...(and it does)!!.... But enough of tiny minded little shit heads.
Guess it is time to cut down my hops. Clean and close the pool. And get to brewin' some beer..
Lots to do in the following weeks.
Still looking at adding more cameras soon. Just need to find the next computer to run them!
Talk to you later......
Bks

School is back in !!!!!!!!

Kids are now back to school. I was looking forward to it SO much. I forgot one little thing. It isn't a big thing to most. But it is to me. I need to wake up earlier now. Again, I am sure that most do this already but I SLEEP in the wee early hours of the morning. I might go to bed at 11 or even 3 AM but I don't SLEEP SLEEP until 4 or 5AM. Wife, she SLEEPS the second she hits the pillow. But she stirs around 4 to 5 AM. It is not fun to get up for me....
Speaking of school back in. My cam traffic will drop like a stone now. Not that it was ever great. But now that both kids are in school. And now that BOTH kids are in school full time now, not much will be seen on these cams from 7:40 to 3:15PM or so. We will ALL be gone. So just to let you know if you drop in once in a while, we still live here!

And if you see me stumblin' around in the AM, half dressed, hair everywhere, looking pissed, SORRY.....
Bks

Nothing much to report...But will anyway.

Little slow around the home front, and crazy at work.But we wont talk about sewage backup right now....
Have cooked out about 15 times in the last 20 days. LOVE it. Will continue with pork tenderloins Tuesday.
Been painting the third floor this past weekend. We will be moving the 10 year old up to this new bedroom next weekend or so. I have been looking out the windows a good bit and wondering if it is time for two or three new cameras..? Wouldn't be a great view for you all, but great from the security standpoint. Well, one could give a great birds eye view of the pool and back yard. God knows I have the cameras sitting around.. Just need to look into a computer...Just what this house needs.........
Kids start school VERY SOON!!!!!! woohoo.....
Thought I might have more to say tonight, but guess not.....
Later,
Bks

Another pet lost..

We lost a pet this week. Sally McWhiskers was one of the kids pet rats.
For those of you who haven't had rats as pets, I don't want to hear it. They are good pets, and no different then any other cage pet. I deleted one comment from the guest book already. I guess this person saw what was going on in the house from the cameras, and left a message. Now, I believe it was a lack of English, but it didn't come out right. And since My 10 year old reads all of this, it needed to be deleted. Free speech doesn't work here... But I still believe the person just "wrote something" he or she didn't understand.
Anyway, the kids are crushed, as they have been before, and will be again. That is the thing about pets, and it is heart breaking to see your kids hurt. We have a cat not doing well also, and when the time comes, I WILL BE CRUSHED. It is hard being around these animals and loving them, and then they are gone......

Kids are starting school soon. Life, and times will change alot around our house.
We will see how things go!
Later, Bks

Road trip...Well, not yet, but soon.

Still tyin' to get the last few things hammered out for the trip to Asheville NC.
It is coming up in October. We were down that way last year. Beautiful country. Great beers to be had. All you need to do is get passed the hippies. They are everywhere. On the streets. Inside all the stores, etc. Nothing like placing an order for pizza and your waitress has dreads. And the cook has dreads, and half the people in the place has dreads..... And I don't care, you want to save the world, but do you need to farkin' SMELL to save the world? Do you hate soap because the MAN made it? Give me a break....
But like I said. Beautiful country. Smell or not...
I will try my best to set up a camera from North Carolina. If I have no view out of a window, I guess I will send video from the hotel room. And post lots of pictures I guess!
Cause it is purty!







Smell or not......................

By the way........

I am still looking for beers from around the world! But no one has sent me any yet!




Bks

I am the GRILL MASTER!!!!

LOL
Ok, the people that come here know I like to cook out. I fire up the grill this time of the year 3 times or more a week. Nothing makes me happier then when the grill is hot, I have a spatula in one hand, and a beer in the other. I love working in the kitchen also. But the kids(know this) so they have started coming in while I am tryin' to cook. It is not so fun doing something you love and the noise starts. And it is like the people in this world who hates cats. The cats seem to know this, so they come to them. Wont leave them alone. Now, I love cats. Love them far more then dogs. I just can't say that out loud since I own a CAT AND DOG Hospital. I can't say out loud that cats rule and dogs SUCK...... LOL.
Now one of my heroes on the net, we will call him ERNIE, loves dogs and hates cats. I even know it is not cool that a man to love cats, but I do. You put down food, the wife cleans the litter box. (old agreement when she was pregnant), and they come to you when they want love. I wont say what MY dogs do to make me ,,,um, not like dogs so much, but just wanted to give you a little back story.....Anyway, the kids seem to know when I am getting into my happy place. So they,, um,,attack. If they wanted to learn that would be different, but they just want to make noise and get in my way. Don't touch the stove. Stay away from that!!! You know......
It is funny. I got into my local Beer brewing club to learn how to make better beer. The club gets together once a month to try beer, and cook food. Lots of these meetings are beer food matches. I have "WON" many if not most of these events because of my foods. I make great beer. But I can cook far better I guess. I just need to work harder on the beer I guess.
Sorry, I have lost my train(hehe) of thought. I guess I will blame that on my lack of beer on tap, and the amount of Mead that I have put down my gullet. I might not make the best beer. I might not make the best Mead, but let me tell ya. The Mead is strong..... And I have 35 gallons in the basement. Some of it is 3 years old or better.
Again, sorry, what was I talking about?
Oh, I like to grill....
Till later,
Brian


Still not sure what I was writing this about.... But HEY, I did post today!

I like cheese.

The cook out with the neighbors went well. They have three kids, one of which still has that new baby smell. Well, until he did a little toss-up on me.Two or three toss-ups to tell the truth. Got the wife a few times also. The last one being a little impressive. Kid is cute as hell. All three of the kids are cute. I just thank god that we will never do it again. It is nice to see a nice little baby, hold it, and then hand it back. But once your manly little friends have met the knife.........You don't need to worry about little ones ever again. But that is a story for some other day.
It was still hard to watch someone else grill.. But that is OK. I mother came in from out of town today so I will fire up the grill (like I need a reason) at noon on Sunday. Going to have hamburgers,cheesy mett's, and the basic fixin's to go with it.
The more I think about this blog stuff, the more I wish I could write. I know very few people read this, and I know few come for the cameras. BUT I wish I could right about something to keep you coming back. With my spelling, grammer,(see) structure, etc. I find my own blog hard to read.... But I just pound away at the keyboard and click post. I never see it again. So I am sorry. If you force yourself to read this, I just want you to know I will try a little harder from here on out. I still wont read it! Or even check spelling. But I will try to write. And I will try to stop the bitchin so much.......
On that note, my eyes are a bit sleepy..
Bye Bye,.
Brian

time flies on your day off.

Here it is almost noon. Just gave the kids breakfast and working in the kitchen.
Going to do some quick clean up and head to Sam's club to find something tonight for a cook out with neighbors a few doors down.
Wish it was going to be here. I really don't like to watch other men grill. Just like I can't stand to have someone else drive. I cook out two to four times a week and can't stand the thought of not being in control of the grill!!!!! LOL, silly I know, but true.
I guess I will make up for it Sunday and do some hamburgers and Metts on my own grill. I don't want to make it sad....
Things have been going very well around here. And the kids will be in school in about two more weeks. So it will be even better! LOL

Wife and I will have every Thursday alone for about 6 hours! We plan to do a lot of hiking. Carter caves in KY has some great trails. Lttle bit of a drive, but will be fun. Some trails around here also, but nothing nice and long. Movies, nice lunches, who knows. But I am really looking forward to Thursdays again...

Not been the best year for the pool. Seems like it has rained most of the summer. And I do like the water around 90. Hasn't been above 84 or so at all. Next year I am going to look into a heat pump. I would rather go with solar, but not sure where I would put a 4 foot by 24 foot panel. And I bet I would need two... I will not climb up to the third story of my house.... My knees wouldn't allow that, but it would be the best solution.
We shall see.
Till later. Bks

Do a little dance...........

"We have processed your request for review of your website, http://insanitycam.com/. At this time, none of our data partners are reporting badware activity related to the site. Any warnings displayed by our partners about your site have either already been removed or should be removed shortly. In addition, the report(s) about this site in StopBadware's Clearinghouse have been moved from “active” to “archived.”

Woo Hoo.........

Normal

Is te site back to normal? I think so.
Google has removed the "attack site" warning.
Travcam.com had to change my index page, to get rid of the porn redirect. I guess I could have done this, but I panic when things go wrong with my website, or one of my many computers.... But thanks go to Travis none the same.
So I guess some things are fixed, some are still broken. I plan to get a new modem soon. I believe I will run some new cat-5 to the living room computer so I stop dropping three of the cams. And if need be, I will replace the router. I have added a gig of memory to most all my computers, a new network card in one of them, and still have a few issues. BUT I am tryin'...................
I believe in a week or three I will have a fourth machine to add to the mix. And I do have about 7 more cameras waitting to be used. Some IR cams, some PTZ cams, and even a webcam or two.. Just not sure where to put them. Wife still has a say of coarse. And a few more outdoor cams will not interest people on the net. But they would come in handy from the security stand point. We shall see.
Still grilling out 2 to 3 times a week. Would do it even more if I had the time. Nothing is better then MEAT from the grill. WEll, ok, a few things are. But food wise.................................
Later, Bks

What do I do now?

I was told by e-mail today that if you type in insnitycam.com into the addy bar, it takes you to a porn site.
I have seen the attack site pop ups in firefox that make it real hard to get around my site.
I have seen what happens if you google my site.
I am still having problems with networking that takes out three of my cameras.

Is anyone still even coming here??????????
I was looking into a new router, modem, and running some new cat-5 wire to fix the three cameras that come and go as they wish, but is it worth it if I can't fix the "site"? I love this hobby. Wanted to add more cameras. Even some at work. A few more at the house. BUT, this attack stuff. This google blockade, this porn site redirect...... I am at a loss. I want to keep going. But I don't know what to do next.............
If anyone can even still read this, I am tryin' to figure out which direction to go... Too much money in cameras, software, time, cables, etc to stop. But I have no clue how to fix it......
Brian

I give us 6 to 10 years.........

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Issue after issue....

Just a little update I guess.
I can't find the bad code, or even know if my site was hacked or not.
This is what I do know. If I use Firefox to go to my site, I get massive attack site warnings. It is a pain to get around, and a pain to see. It even says something in google under my site name that it may do harm....
If I use IE, no warnings come up. But, it does block a pop up from opening. I clicked this pop up a year or more ago, and it wanted to download the newest Flash player. Is this why I am now getting "attack site warnings"? Because my site tries to download the newest Flash player? OR, is that a bug someone put on my site on the server side?
I don't know......I do believe I have lost some of the few people that come here.
I put a new network card into the living room computer today. It drives the living room, porch and front door cameras. I thought it might help. And it did for an hour or so. It is still dropping the network again. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, just here and there. So I guess the next thing to do is change out the cat-5 wire again.Not that it matters if I can't get rid of the attack site crap.
So I lost it on my last post...... I just hate being dumb. Having no idea how to fi this stuff...
Haven't had any problems with the Dining room and kitchen cameras since getting backfrom vacation. Knock on wood.... But if they start going down again, on top of these other problems, I might just give up this site...
Brian

What the F&CK????????

Here I sit at work. Still half sick, still walking around like a crip, and I decide to look at my website.
This is what I see...............
Reported Attack site.........This web site at www.insanitycam.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
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So, is someone pissed because I had more hits then them? Because I am higher on some webcam site list?

Hell, I get very few hits per month. I stream 8 fucking cams, two are PTZ cams, I know nothing really happens on these cameras, just a little family site. But I still kick the shit out of these other family webcam sites because I have SO many cameras. I also know that not too many other people have ANY PTZ cams. So, is this some sad little asshole who has one camera or two that is just upset and reported me for something? Is it some jerk off who has a camera or two but doesnt stream? Someone who is upset with my sad little website that had to report me for nothing?

And what do I do now? I am upset because this is my site. I don't do ANYTHING here to be blocked. I don't even entertain enough to really have this site. But IT IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!! And who the hell can decide or tell others that I do anything wrong???? Unless they are just a sad piece of shit...?

I will figure this out. And god help them If I figure out who reported me as an attack site. I will destroy them. I will use every free second to track them down. I will HIRE someone if need be to end their web life.........................This is my little hobby, if you want to mess with it, well, I guess you just gave me a reason to go on for a while.........

Welcome to the U.S.S.A

Screw you.

Brian

Yep

Well, both the 5 year old and the 9 year old are now sick. So far the wife and oldest daughter don't show any signs of being sick. I can only believe we picked this up in N.C. It takes a while to kick in, and I started feeling it Monday. Still guess it is better to be sick AFTER the vacation. But still, summer colds suck.....
Might not put in a full day at work in the AM. Just sit on the couch in a blanky with my massive night night cup of water.. Haven't had a beer now since Saturday.... And I gotta say, I don't miss it like I figured I would...

Blah

Well, after being home for 1 day, I came down with a cold. A good one....I hate to be sick in the summer. I had to go to work Wednesday to pay taxes, and do pay roll. I wanted to stay in bed, but couldn't. I am a little worried that my boy is now getting sick also.
I have put some pics up of Kitty Hawk 2009. I will add more later. But it is a start.

I am going to go see if I can eat.
Later.

Vacation is over....

Well, we are back home now. The drive is the hardest part..Not as young was I once was. And with young kids, well, it is a bit harder.
I am worn out, and really need to get in bed. Just had a weeks worth of internet to catch up on. I went without, I made it seven days, but it was hard! I didn't get to share video from the beach. And I couldn't see my house from the beach.And as always, the computers shut down while I was gone. Or a few did anyway. But I am sure you five didn't notice.
I haven't even checked the kitchen and dinning room computer yet, so I don't even know if it is on or not.
Lots and lots to do at work in the AM. Will take a bit to catch up. But, all in all, I did love being on the sand again.
Pictures to follow in a day or two.
Bks

Mars is almost gone....

Getting very close to our vacation now. Will be hitting the road Sunday morning, I am sure the drive will not be good. But, once we hit the sand in Kitty Hawk, it will be worth it.
Was so excited about sending video from the beach, but don't think that will happen. And it looks like "Mars", the machine that runs the Kitchen and Dinning room cams is on its last legs. I drop the cameras every internet every day now, and I am getting crazy error messages now. It was given to me a while back, and it has seen its better days. So, my plans to add more cams while on vacation, and to see my house while away, is slowly fading away. It is nice to drop in your home and see that everything is ok. One of the reasons I wanted to do this site in the first place. But it looks like I will need to do some major work to these machines once I get back in town. So, if a few cams go down in the next day or so, it is because I can't be here to reboot the computer 5 or 6 times to get them back.And once I do get back in town, Mars will be taken down until I can fix it. Replacement would be better, but I don't see that anytime soon.
I don't need to worry too much about the house while we are away. Cameras or no cameras, I do have people taking care of things while we are gone. Mother in law will stick around, a kick ass alarm system, and a few friends, family, and employees keeping things in line. Not that anyone would care about our house, but it always make worry when we leave.....Something always seems to go wrong..... Knock on wood.............
Look for beach pics soon...

Computer fun

Still playin' with the website and my computers.
I have set up Two remote cameras now. They will only be on once in a while. I don't have a wireless service to run these often.
I was just trying to get ready for our beach trip, that's why I started the idea of remote computers.
The frame rate on these computers are sad at best. But it is better then nothing at all. The computers in the house have slowed to a crawl. It has been getting worse over the last year, and I have no idea why. I have added memory to two machines, defragged, removed programs, and nothing seems to help. My wife and kids are getting very upset when they want to go on line. You click the blue E and walk away for 5 or 10 min...... So slow. I am going to try to get them to use Firefox. It seems to work well on my laptop, but haven't tested it on the home computers.

I found this guy who builds some great computers, and doesn't charge too much, but I wont be able to replace these systems ANY time soon. So I guess we run slow for now.

But hey, two more cams to turn on once in a while!!!!

Bks

New Camera !!!

Well, I have a new Remote camera going. It will not always be on, but we will still call it camera 9.
At this moment it is in the bedroom. BUT, it will not be on for long. I was working on it and the battery was going out, the charger just happened to be in this room. LOL WIFE would kill me, so it will be out soon.
It took me hours to work out some problems, and not sure they are all worked out just yet, but it is a start.
If this works well, I plan to add 2 or 3 more Remote cameras. From my laptops, and maybe even work.
Be sure to hit refresh on my page. The camera link might not be online yet....
Brian

Day off..

Had a good day off today. Wife and I had the house alone for once. It was nice. It was quiet...
I moved some beer today. After being in the primary carboys for 15 days, the beer has cleaned up nice. I will leave them to secondary for 7 days or so then transfer to kegs.Well, One batch I will move to a keg, I don't have room for two kegs in my kegerator.It has three kegs already in it. One Barley wine, a two year old Mead, and a Copper Ale I made on May third. I added 1 OZ. of cascade hops to one of the beers. The smell of the hops in these beers are great. Thought I would dry hop one and see how it comes out. Looks like I should try to brew again before I go on vacation. Don't want to get behind again..Nothing worse then running out of beer.
It is late, I have been stayin' up far to late the last week or so. Last night I was up till 3am. I guess I have a few hundred things on my mind.....Just can't stand to turn out the lights and sit and think.It is easier to pass out and dream then sit in the dark..
But I do have work in the am, so I guess I will try to get in bed.
Bks

Network???Hello??!!!

Well, I don't get it. I powered down "Pluto" added a gig of memory and booted back up. I then strung my back up cat5 wire all over the house and rebooted my router. My cameras were back online again. BUT, I can't have this wire all over the place, so I took it off and plugged the other one back in. And I am still on the net...
So if the power goes out, or I turn it off, I loss the network. If I plug in a NEW cat5 wire, get on line, then switch out to the chewed up line thatI have spliced 4 or 5 times, it works....
Who knows..... I am sure someone smarter then me. Or someone who could test my wire.... But It is online, so I wont touch a thing for now....
I am sure it will go down again the minute I go on holiday...hehe... Vacation....I just love the sound of holiday.. Anyway, I am sure they will go down before I leave the state and I wont be able to watch my house.....

If I can, but I am sure I have no idea how, I will set up a remote cam next month from the beach......I can only ask my friend for so much help, don't want to be a nag....
Later,
Bks

Storm part 2

I just figured out that after the storm and had rebooted everything, the Living room computer has lost connection to the router again. So now I am back to square one. I thought I fixed it when I spliced the cat5 wire. Guess I was wrong. Must be some other issue. I really need to figure this out soon....

Storm

The rain just hit with a fury. Took out my modem and all three computers. Put 6 inches of water in my basement in a matter of 10 minutes. everything has came back online, but the basement will be wet for a while.
Day off today, hitting the movies with the kids and wife.
I have added a gig of memory to one computer and will add a stick to the living room computer soon. Hope it helps me. These machines crawl now......
Talk at you later.
Bks

Ouch

I am a man. A beer drinking, Copenhagen usin', stinky MAN!
I have never really worried what I looked like,how I smelled, or worried about how much red meat I eat.
But today I messed up. We (the family) will be going to the beach soon. In ...lets say 2 to 6 weeks....Last year I had a little bit of sun poisoning. So today I used a tanning bed. It was hard to walk into a place that was full of 20 something good looking people. I am not worth looking at to most. But I did it because I didn't want toburn at the beach. Or have people try to roll me back into the water........ But that is beside the point.
Anyway, I felt that a stand up "bed" was more manly. I hear it is a "level 2" bed. But I don't know what that is.... Anyway, this is my first time, I have NO idea what I am doing, and I tell them to set me at 12 min.
I now know, hours later, this was a mistake. Well, I knew it was a mistake 30 minutes after I left. But it is getting worse. The red has done spread.....And I don't want to tell you that 7 minutes into it I took off the undies... So I will just tell you that I HURT almost everywhere!
If anyone was unlucky enough to look in on the cams around noon, you may have caught my fat ass walking all over the house without a shirt. Sorry.. I hope I didn't damage your eyes. I try to keep my clothes on when the cameras are running.. And now, I look like a lobster. A fat one.. Ready to be put in a pot.
And I still feel like a girl for going to a tanning bed in the first place.
So if are unlucky enough to tune in and see me half dressed, it is because I am a little hot... And my skin hurts....
Till next time....
Bk

June 15th update. Or computer problem update. Or brewin' update, or ...... whatever...

OK. So my living room computer hasn't been connected to the internet for a while now. I figure the problem is in the Cat-5 wire, or the on board network card. Is it a card if it is on the motherboard? Anyway, I had some ends put on a cable, and it worked. ((See other post.)Did I post that? Not that anyone reads this). Anyway, I didn't want to crawl under the house so I decided to cut into the cat-5 wire that the dog chewed into. ( Three times). I cut it all out AGAIN,and did a little splice job. It seems to be working again so I will leave it alone! We will see what happens.

On the beer front, On Saturday I made a 10 gallon batch of American Pale ale. It looks good so far. In a week to 15 days I move it to secondaries. I hope to brew again in two weeks,but it depemds how this one turns out.
I have the grains, so I must brew.......................
I have no Idea what I have put to paper(ONLINE), so I hope spelling and grammer is a littke OK, But as always, I do this for ME!

Computer update.

Well, the computer was on and off all day. I figured it was the network card or the cat5 wire. You know, the one that has been chewed in half three times by a little crap eatin' dog. So I figured it was the wire.
I had a new cable made and so far the computer is still online. So I will hope this is the only problem. Right now the cable is running all over the house. I guess when I get time, I will crawl in the dirt under my house and run this new cable.

I hate bugs........

Now,I need about 6 gigs of old memory for these machines.. So if you have any PC2100 or 2700, drop them in the mail!

Computer problems re-load

Well, Pluto is down again. This computer is driving me nuts. I have lost three cameras again, and have no idea why. WebcamXP starts, and seems to be running, but I can't maximize it. And add to the fact that it doesn't seem to be getting out to the net. I will be going out of town next month and wanted to keep an eye on the house, not sure I will be able to do that now.
Anyway, just wanted to let you all know what was going on. I haven't turned them off, they just wont come on!!!

Beer, beer,and MY beer.

I have been picking up a LOT of store purchased beer. Nothing wrong with that I guess. When I need good beer, I just go to Ohio, or Kentucky. If I don't make it out of town, I just pick up the best (LOL) of what I can here in town. I did make my very first batch of all grain on May 3rd. and it was great. I gave the first 5 gallons away, but I still have 5 gallons or more in a carboy in my basement. Long story short, I need to keg this batch! I am sick of going to the store when I have beer ready to go. I just need to keg the damn thing. So I have a keg soaking. I picked up some more tubing tonight to transfer with, so first thing in the AM I will move this beer to a keg. Monday noght I will have 5 gallons on tap to drink. Only other thing I have on hand is a Barley Wine, and a Mead. The barley wine is not something I like. But I made it almost two years ago when I really didn't know what I liked yet. It is good. Don't get me wrong. It is far better then I ever thought it would be, and might wine me an award or two, but not something I can sit and drink. The mead, well, you don't want to drink more then half a glass or two at a time. It is some strong stuff! It is also about two years old.
This coming Saturday I will be doing my second ever batch of all grain. It will be ten gallons of American Pale Ale. It will be close to 4 weeks before I can drink it, but maybe I wont need to pick up any beer before it is ready. I hope to brew again within 2 or 3 weeks after this APA. Before long I willl be caught up. I don't have many friends and I am not sure why ( It must be me....) but how many people do you know with 5 taps in the back room? Come 6 or 7 weeks, I will have them all running. Friends or no, I can drink myself happy.... Or try..............
I have 2 pounds of hops coming in the mail in the next day or so, and Thursday I will be picking up 110Lbs. of grains. This should last me for a few brews!
Later....

Part 3

Well everything seems to be working again. Don't ask me why. I have no clue.
You see, I gave up. I was going to calm down for a while and start fresh. Thought I would start with a new cat5 wire, might replace the network card, and then dig into the software side. Then one day the camera moved. Someone had clicked a movement button and it worked. So I knew it must be back up on the net.
No idea or clue what was wrong... and that makes me worry even more. Cause now I wonder when they will go out again.
Oh well.
Nothing much more to report. Cameras are up, pool is open, the kids are still the kids, and I still need $750,000.00

Problems part 2

Well people, I can't figure this out. I thought my three cameras were down do to a cat5 wire. Guess I was wrong. My daughter clicked on internet explorer and up it popped. So now I am pissed. I could have fixed a cable. Software side? Website side? Router? I have looked at all The things that I know about. And let me tell you, that isn't much. I have been upset the past week or so about thousands of things, so this doesn't help. It makes me mad that I am so damn stupid when it comes to computer stuff. Things that I should be able to fix.... So I just get mad, and hate myself even more.I love my little site. I love looking in from work. It is one of my two hobbies.And I can't fix it when it breaks. Some damn hobby.

Well, everything else in my life is going to hell, so why not this site too.......

Computer problems

Sitting here in bed so I thought I would look at my front door and porch cameras before i fell asleep. They don't seem to be on....?So I run down and check the computer. It seems to be ok. Just doesn't look like it is on the network anymore. Now I ain't, not, no, good with this computer stuff, so I really don't know what to do.It might be the cat5 wire, but i can't check that this late. Not sure how I would check it anyway. I hope that is the only problem, but it wasn't easy to run it in the first place. And I would hate to run it again...
So it looks like I have lost three of my cameras for now. I will see what I can do in the AM.

Pool was used today! First swim of the season. My fat arse didn't sink!! And when I got out of the pool, Green peace didn't try to roll me back into the water!

Now I will sit here in bed and worry about this computer all night......blah.

It is May?

Howdy, not been here for a bit. I guess I just haven't felt like blogging much.
Work hasn't been going well. The money just isn't coming in. I have 10 total employees and I just want to send them home with a paycheck and pay the bills. It is getting hard to do.
So lets skip the talk about work.
Summer is almost here. I will be very happy when the rain stops. Seems like it has been falling for 3 to 4 weeks now.
Need to finish the pool soon. The kids are asking me every hour or so when it will be ready. I will finish it soon. I can't make the water warm but I don't think they will care.
Anyway, not much of a post, but I tried. Just not been very happy as of late.

What updates?

Well, I guess I haven't been writing much. If you call what I do writing.So I will ramble on tonight for a bit.
As you can see, the site has not changed much. I did move the backyard camera into the (wait for it) the backyard! I still plan to move the living room camera to the front yard this summer. Might drop a viewer or two out of the six or seven viewers I have. I don't know why, but people like to move my camera around the living room a good bit. I know nothing goes on in this house and should be thankful for the people who do drop in! But I figure not many people will want to see the street or front yard. But a good bit of this site is for security.
I have been getting the pool clean.Not been in a big hurry because the weather isn't just right yet, but I figure it is about time. I am trying to get in touch with my pool woman to pick up a few more things, but she must be getting busy this time of year. Go figure. I will see her Friday one way or the other since one of her dogs comes to us every week. Rare blood problem. So I am sure she will fix me up then.
Lets see, haven't been brewing at all. I am really behind. This Saturday is big brew day. It is a "holiday" I guess you could say. Home brewers all around the world brew on this day and toast at noon. I don't think I am ready with my new system but I am going to brew anyway. I will have the help of some long time brewers to help if something doesn't go right. So on deck is twenty gallons of brew! Still not sure what yet, but it will be two 10 gallon batches. After I am sure my system works, I plan to brew my butt off all summer. Why have these taps in my house if beer isn't flowing!
What else? Well, my birthday is coming up. May 6th for those of you who live over sea's and want to send me something to drink! Anyway, I believe my wife is going to try and kill me this birthday. She really likes to hike. She has lost a crap load of weight in the last year and is in much better shape then me.(wouldn't be hard as I am in the worse shape of my life.) So anyway, we are going to Kentucky for my birthday and doing a little seven mile hike.If I don't come back make the phone calls that you need to.... My body might be hard to find in such a wooded area!
On the plus side, I do seem to be dropping some weight. I do not know how. I haven't changed anything. I am pulling up my pants about every 2 minutes now. Even the Wii says I have lost like 7 pounds. Not sure what is going on.. Just hope I am not "sick" in some bad way...
But then again, a tape worm or two wouldn't be bad.... Still get to eat, drink, and drop pounds!
I have grilled out now for about 6 days in a row. Man I love it... Nothing better then a hot grill, some raw food, and a cold beer.
Enough for now. Till later..
BKS

April showers..

Hello again. Helllllllooooooo.. is there anyone out there.....?
Anyway, the weather has took a turn. A turn for the worst. It was nice for a week, warm, sun, no rain....Then it went to hell. Cold, rain every day, wind... My Hop plants grew almost two feet in a matter of 15 days? And now the cold. I am not sure if they will make it. The growth I have anyway, the hops always come back. this is only the second year, but they grow like a man after a beer.
Work has been the same, pay bills and hope people keep coming in the front door. Lots of new paint and wall paper on the walls, so now I need to start moving into the rest of the place. Try to fix a building that is now 59 years old...With very little money.
On the plus side, I have one drug rep that has really stepped up and helped me out a bit. Just the one, but it is still great to feel like someone wants to help. I do owe her company about $20,000. but still she tries to help.
On the beer side, Big Brew day is coming up in May. It is a homebrew holiday of sorts. Home brewers all over the world brew together. I guess I will be doing 20 gallons on my new, untested all grain system. !0 for me, and 10 for the club president. It was his idea.. Not sure it is a good one, but I am game. So come May 2nd. I will have a LONG day. 20 gallons will take a while. Add food, games, lots o beer on hand.... Real long day... But it will be fun.

Update

Nice warm days.....

The pool is almost open. Yes it is March and the water will not be ready for months, but why not. The cover was off, it is turning green, so I might as well. Most of the plumbing is now back on, all I need to do is install the light/water outlet. Will also need to purchase a butt load of pool shock.
This also lets me it is time to put the backyard camera back in the.......backyard. Not that we really need a pan,tilt,zoom camera in the laundry room/wife's office/beer vault room.
I guess for now, I am going to leave all the cameras running. I can't do much about my sad bloggin' powers. Or lack of them, but I will keep the site for a while longer. Guess to much work has went into it. Besides, will be on vacation this summer and would love to keep an eye on the house...
Now, what to blog about in the future....

Is this site still worth the problems?

I have yet to figure out why I put this site on the web. Not sure what reasons I had to do it. It started as a little security type camera site for me. I traveled and wanted to drop in on my family from time to time. That what I tell myself anyway. I am not even sure if that is what started it or not. I found sites with cameras, and thought it was cool. Is that the reason? I am not sure. All I know is that I wanted to do it. It took a year or more to get that first camera up and running. It was out the old house, looking at my little above ground pool. Had a little blog and some pictures. That site (server ?) went down. No back -ups, no saved blogs, photos, etc. Once it went back online, we moved. Once I hit this house I moved a little faster. Cameras went up, computers added, getting yelled at by the wife..... She still don't like the cameras..... Anyway, I have always wanted to add even more cameras. But I still don't know why... I am not a good looking man, I don't even look in the mirror after a shower. So why would I believe anyone else would want to look at me? The wife hates the cameras, so she is very careful when near any of them. So are people looking to see her? I don't think so. So that leaves the kids. Are sick people hitting my cameras to see them? I hope to the F.S.M they are not. I would hate to kill again.....
But as I watch the computers, people are not really hitting this site anyway. Am I shocked? Well, no. Like I said, nothing goes on here. Nothing to really see. I have three computers running eight cameras at all hours of the day. That takes a good bit of juice. My cable TV and internet runs at $168. a month. Wife hates the cams, I have very few people checking in any more, and I am getting sick of resetting cameras every morning. Why should I keep adding cameras or pounding out these sad little blogs? Hell, I can even spell!! My over use of the ,,,,,,,, even bothers me now!!!
Don't get me wrong. I still love doing this. I would have 3 or 4 more cameras up and running. Wouldn't bother me to have them in the bedroom. Wouldn't see anything in that room either, but it is cool to check on my house from work...
It is late, and as always I just come here and write to hear myself talk. I 4 years ago or so when I started this, I wrote about the 4 or 5 people that came to my site. I wrote because I knew I had those few people. Site crashed for a while, and I think I lost them. Now? I really have no idea how many people drop in. I can see a little counter on my computer that gives me an idea on the number of views, and it is never really showing anyone. Once in a while, might be a person on one computer or the other. But I am just wondering if I will keep this going.
I have read others sites. Some have had a camera or two up for more years then me, and they are dropping like flies. The person who made this site work in the first place,(and has tried to help me learn about web design) Travis doesn't have the time to keep up with his site either.
So if anyone is reading this, let me know what you think. If I get NO comments, I guess that tells me what I need to know.

Work

It is late. Thought I would post again just to talk to my self. Lots going on at work so thats what I will spew about today.
Lots of painting done, LOTS more to do. Been putting up wall paper here and there and still have a lot more of that to do also. We found about 8 pictures online and picked up the frames here in town for them. So, I really need to get the paper and paint done. I am not at work as much as I need to be, and the only time I can really get things done is after hours. Guess I better go in Friday night and paper my ass off. Place is old and looks like hell, so the little I have done looks great so far.

It is late, I guess I should force myself to go to sleep. I drop my boy off at school at 9am and pick him up at 12 on Fridays. Not much reason to even go to work. And I forgot to pick up school snacks so I will need to run to the store. Hell by the time I go to work I would need to leave anyway....

Spring....?

Man, the weather was great today. Talk about spring fever.. I hear the park was full today, but didn't get the chance to go down. I can't wait for summer. It will be nice to fill our planters up with flowers again. It looks bad out front. But then again, I still have Christmas lights up.... Not lit of coarse, but they are still up. Lazy I guess.
I picked up a new computer today, had it built by a small business owner here in town. I could have done it myself, but it will be going in at work as a server. Better that a pro build it then me. The numbers on this thing are great and only for $500. Five years ago this would have ran into the thousands of dollars.I wanted to start working on it here before I take it to work, but I am short a monitor, mouse and keyboard. I guess I could shut down one of my desk tops and use the things I need, but every time I shut down one of these three computers it is never the same. Not sure how I want to handle this yet, but I will tell you I can't run out and get a new monitor! Once I do get this machine running, I will switch out the servers and rebuild the infected machine. Will be a nice back-up. God knows I might be hurt if I set up a fourth desk top here in the house...Let alone more cameras. I am thinking about getting rid of the kitchen and dinning room cameras. No one seems to watch these camera much anyway. I can only figure it is because I spend a good amount of time in the kitchen.... Looks like people are getting sick of my pregnant looking ass! That didn't sound right, after all, I have a great ass, it is the front of me that looks pregnant....And that would be fine if I was a girl.....
Man, I am running on tonight....Sad thing is I haven't been drinking... Oh well.

It is still very early, but I am going to try to go to bed early. I always stay up far to late, so why not see what will happen with extra sleep..
And DAMN, this house is hot..............
I hate to sleep when it is hot...
B

Lazzy Thursday

Not a lot going on now, we did spend most of the morning on the girls room. Took the top bunk bed off and moved it to the third floor. Moved everything around the way she wanted it. She will be surprised when she gets out of school.
The boy was only in preschool for an hour when he hit his head on something. Had to go pick him up. Has a massive pop knot on his head now. It might look worse by the morning. He seems to be doing good now.
Weather is finally getting nice, cant wait for sun shine again. Will be nice to open the pool. Give the kids something to do.

Not that anyone reads this blog, but I am going to post my next beer recipe here. I will misplace the damn thing so I might as well put it in writing...

Stone Ruination IPA

14 Lbs. 2row malt
14 oz. 15L Crystal malt
36 AAU Magnum hops (90 min) (2.25 oz/64g of 16% alpha acids)
16 AAU Centennial hops (15 min) (1.5 oz./43g of 10.5% alpha acids
2 oz. Centenial whole hops (dry hop)
1 tsp. Irish moss (15 min)
White labs WLP002 (English Ale) Yeast 2 qt./2L yeast starter.

OG= 1.072 FG= 1.012
IBU=100+
SRM=12
ABV= 7.7%



YUM

New toy, New Virus

Wife let me pick up a GPS today. A nice little Garmin nuvi 200. It was only $129. at white trash mart. I decided to register it online and up date the software and maps.While trying to update the maps, and I do stress trying, I noticed my McAfee kept kicking on and off. Well, the update crashed after a while and I started running a virus scan. It is still running but it has already found 12 version of a virus. This one is called JV/Eploit-Gimsh. And they are all in the Sun Java folders.
The same program that was running while trying to update the GPS. I hope to hell this goes away. The virus I have at work will not go away. I run McAfee and it will delete 12-15 parts of the virus, but can't touch one wee little bit. Then it just spreads all over again.
I will finish this scan with my fingers crossed. But my luck, I am screwed.Just as I am with my work server.
Wish me luck.

February update

Well, not much to update.
Seems like the auto focus is going on my Backyard camera (that is indoors right now).
I have a few more of these cameras so I might try to replace it soon. My IR cameras still kick out every day and I need to reboot. Getting sick of that.
Anyway, been spending some time at work on paint and wallpaper. Gotta try to make this place look somewhat OK. I sit at home on my laptop and look at numbers, bank accounts, etc. just looking for ways to make this work.
The one thing I look forward to is brewin' beer. I am so close to brewing my first batch of all grain I can taste it. Two years of extract brewing, soon I will be moving on to better beer with even better flavor. Not to mention 10 gallons at a time instead of 5!
I should be go up north soon to pick up 300 LBS. of grain and 2 LBS. of hops. Will be a nice trip away from here, a nice lunch, some good beer, and supplies to start brewing again.
Now, if I could only find a second 15.5 gallon keg............ huuuummmmmmmmmm....

More Snow

Boy the snow is flyin'. I had to get my kids out of school two hours early for no reason, but the snow we were looking for is now here. Looks great of my cameras, but hate what it does to business. Not to mention school closings.
Wife is at a meeting a little to far away. Worried about her getting home in her piece of crap Neon.
Would do anything to get her a new car, but that is a long way off.
Biggest Loser is not on tonight because of some damn Basket Ball game. Funny how I like to watch a show that I should be on.
Going to get the kids in bed soon, might play a little Zelda on the Wii. Makes me forget whats going on and takes me back to my childhood.
Nothing new going on with the website for now. Besides the two cameras that freeze up every 6 to 12 hours, everything seems to be running. Need to add some memory to all my machines.
When it warms up, both PTZ cameras will be going outside. I even have this little idea about an underwater camera for the pool. It would be something different than other websites have, but I am sure the wife would have something to say about that! LOL
Just want to do more with this site, but not sure what yet.
Feel free to send me any ideas. Or money... I could always use money. Oh, or beer! Need some viewers fom Germany, or over sea's to send me some real beer!
Man, I really need to brew some damn beer.

Snow.....

Snow, snow, everywhere. As always it causes more problems then it is worth. Looks purty and all, but the roads are a little bad. It is going to get worse with freezing rain tonight. Wife somehow managed to get to work in her piece of crap car. I would have taken her in the truck, but the kids were in bed and the babysitter couldn't make it off her hill. One employee couldn't make it in because of the snow, one employee is still out due to family health problems, my part time employee has been working far more then she wants too. It is only a matter of time before she gets fed up and quits. And one employee has given me her two weeks notice. That leaves two part time girls that are going to the BIG school here. They are the best, but need to work around schools classes.I need to hire someone really bad. But I am shocked that no matter how bad the world is, or how hard it is to find a job, that NO ONE seems to want to work. Now, I know I don't pay much, but the job isn't hard. People want to sit home and collect a check I guess. And things will be far worse in the coming years as people see they can sit home and get bigger checks and pop out more kids to get even more money...Sad damn world we live in.
Add to that the tax rates, and competition in the tri-state area, and the town I live in, business is BAD. I have made it 3 or 4 months longer then I though, but things are not getting better. I can only hope for cash to start falling from the ski at this point.
Later.