Tuesday, March 30, 2010

I am a lucky guy!

My wife is the greatest. She is going to let me take a trip to Germany this September.
I shouldn't talk to long about the trip, because every time I think about it I start to worry. I have not been away from my family this long before, and I have only been in about 6 of the states here. Let alone fly around to the other side of the planet. In a perfect world I would be able to take the family with me. But school will be starting around that time, and the wife can't walk away from work for that long. I don't know much about travel, so I still need to figure out a lot of things. And I doubt my cell will work in Germany. Computer access? Credit cards, bank card? I have no idea.. Guess I will figure it out one way or the other.
I plan to take about 5000 pics, so watch for them in about 6 months!
Speaking of pictures, I have seen pics from two people who check out my site once in a while. If you come here once in a while, drop me a picture! Would be great to see pics of people who watch me and my family!
That is if anyone really comes here, or reads this blog.
So send me those pics! insanitycam@gmail.com

Saturday, March 20, 2010

I'm backkkkkkkkk..

Well, I am back as much as I can be. Still don't know about bloggin' and such, but it is easier to write once in a while when I now no more then 2 or 3 people might read it.
But, I am back for now.
I will post a few things here that I wanted to say. If this doesn't work I will post in my own comment section.
#1 Two of my cameras move. They are set up so that you can move them. And they will let one person move them for a set number of seconds, then someone else gets a turn.For what ever reason, some one likes to get on the camera controls and move it AWAY from the people in my house. Now if that someone was doing it to protect something, like one of my kids forgot the cameras were on or something, that would be great... More then great. But I notice this happens more and more when me and the wife are in the room and nothing is going on. Someone just moves the camera to a wall or something, and keeps it on the wall as long as possible. I have yet to look at the IP log to see who is doing this, but if it keeps up I will. Or, I will just stop the camera movement all together.
#2 Same with the backyard cam. Someone likes to move it up to the sky and leave it. Now, it has been cold, and no one is in the back yard, but the sun might damage the camera beyond repair. And these cams are very hard to come by. So please stop. Or again, I willtake the movement off line.
#3 I have also noticed that some people might forget they have my cameras pulled up. Case in point. Someone has been on my #2 kitchen camera for more then 20 hours! lol, Now, they really like dirty dishes, or they are smarter then me and somehow are recording this camera, or they just have it hidden under other windows. I guess it doesn't hurt me. Little bit of bandwidth being pulled, but not to many people come here. So does it hurt me? I don't know. It might slow other people down when they are tryin to watch. But I really don't know. Insanitycam has been online for , what, 5 to 7 years? And I still don't know anything about the net side of things. Hell, I don't even know how to pull my stats. Or if I even can, without asking the friend who host this site for me. And he has far to much on his hands to worry about me. But just wanted to say, if you open a window into my little world here, be sure to close it when you are done. UNLESS you really like my dirty dishes... And if you do like it dirty, donate to my site!!!!!! LOL
#4, I done forgot the rest of the numbers, and here I sit still hitting the keyboard like a drunk monkey....
But like I said, I am here, the family is still here, and this is still a nice little view into a West Virginia FAMILY home. Thank you people who drop in to visit. Don't know why you do, but I plan to keep it running for a long while.
Oh,and the IP on the kitchen watcher, seems to be coming from Kansas. So if it is a real IP and you live in Kansas, check to see if you have a window open! LOL
Bks

Friday, March 12, 2010

Now what..

I am still here. And I broke my own rules again by fixing three cameras that went down.
Well, first the server that insanitycam is on was down for a day or so. Then when it went back online, my living room computer started acting up. I believe it is in the cat5 wire under the house. I have replaced the network card twice, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. Funny thing is, it comes and goes. So right now I have cat5 wire #2 running all over the house. Can't wait for the wife to see that.
I didn't cover the pool this winter, and now I am payin' for it. It was a nasty shade of green when the ice melted...Not to mention scummmmmmm... I have added a ton of chemicals, and now have the pool a loverly shade of blue... Of well, a week or so longer, it might be ok.
If I ever come up with the extra cash, I will get the two kitchen cameras back up. Also looking at a PTZ cam in the front yard.

Till later, Bks