We are home. Vacation is over. Life goes back to "normal", what ever that is.
It was a great holiday, and now is the time to plan next years trip.
The wife and I keep talking about somewhere new. Florida keeps pooping up, but I don't know if the kids can take a 14 hour drive. They have a hard time with 10 hours in a car. And that is with toys, two T.V.'s, DVD players, computers, snacks, etc. They still fight and bicker half the time. And that makes me an unhappy driver.
I just want to find a nice family style beach, not to many people, and a place to relax.
So this being the 4th, I will be grilling today.. But then again, I grill more then most people, but it should be the law to grill on the 4th of July!
Will be grilling a Beer Can Chicken today, maybe some grilled potatoes and peppers, corn on the cob, and what ever else sounds good to the family.
Tuesday it's back to work. I am sure I have a lot to catch up on. The wife had to go in today for a few hours to try to get some things done. But that was three hours ago, and she still isn't home. She works far to hard, and I worry she is going to burn out one day. She needs more help from us all..
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Sand....Beach.....North Carolina..........
Well, I am not home. But I guess the people that visit my little camera site know that.
I never tell people before I go out of town. You know, security reasons, but I have things buttoned down very well. So here it is, The family and I have hit the beach in the Outer Banks. Tonight will be night two, and so far things are going very well. Not great, but it is VACATION!
I look out the window, and watch the sun rise.Drinking lots of different, great beers, and dig holes in the sand all day long.
I can't add my "remote" cams this vacation, but will try to get one or two running soon. When I do, I will post the addy for those cams. I will use ww.com to broadcast, but if you go to that site, be careful, lots of old, or bald, or old and bald guys on that site doing things I would rather not see. It is never what you would call a family friendly site. But, the camera streaming works welll for what it is. Do get me wrong, a few great people on that site. BUT, few and far between.
To Tim who wrote me on the guest book.
The backyard camera and the living room camera is the same model. It is a very old Picturetel PTZ-1. I found these old cameras on E-bay. They are hard to come by, and harder to find ones that still work. But the picture is one of the best I think. I use software from a guy on the net. It is called BDLCAM. His name is Brian also, and he lets people download and use this for free, but does take donations. I hate that I have never gave to him, even though I have used his software for 8 to 10 years. That being said, I have had problems with the living room controls for a good long time now. BUT, I really have no idea what I am doing. As you can tell by my website. Not the best looking thing in the world huh....
I had to make the cables to make BDL talk to the PTZ, but it was all fun. Add a bunch of cheap webcams, and a few IR cameras, and I have my site....
And by the way, thanks Tim for a nice post on my guest book. Seems like I get some crazy ones now and again.
Will give you all a link to beach cams when I get them up!
Till later,
Bks
I never tell people before I go out of town. You know, security reasons, but I have things buttoned down very well. So here it is, The family and I have hit the beach in the Outer Banks. Tonight will be night two, and so far things are going very well. Not great, but it is VACATION!
I look out the window, and watch the sun rise.Drinking lots of different, great beers, and dig holes in the sand all day long.
I can't add my "remote" cams this vacation, but will try to get one or two running soon. When I do, I will post the addy for those cams. I will use ww.com to broadcast, but if you go to that site, be careful, lots of old, or bald, or old and bald guys on that site doing things I would rather not see. It is never what you would call a family friendly site. But, the camera streaming works welll for what it is. Do get me wrong, a few great people on that site. BUT, few and far between.
To Tim who wrote me on the guest book.
The backyard camera and the living room camera is the same model. It is a very old Picturetel PTZ-1. I found these old cameras on E-bay. They are hard to come by, and harder to find ones that still work. But the picture is one of the best I think. I use software from a guy on the net. It is called BDLCAM. His name is Brian also, and he lets people download and use this for free, but does take donations. I hate that I have never gave to him, even though I have used his software for 8 to 10 years. That being said, I have had problems with the living room controls for a good long time now. BUT, I really have no idea what I am doing. As you can tell by my website. Not the best looking thing in the world huh....
I had to make the cables to make BDL talk to the PTZ, but it was all fun. Add a bunch of cheap webcams, and a few IR cameras, and I have my site....
And by the way, thanks Tim for a nice post on my guest book. Seems like I get some crazy ones now and again.
Will give you all a link to beach cams when I get them up!
Till later,
Bks
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Recap
Lots and lots of hits on my website today. Not sure why, but I am getting pounded hard.
If anyone knows why, let me know.
But just to recap, this is just a small FAMILY web cam site. We don't do much around here, and you will never see nudity, or anything bad here. Just a hobby for me, and a nice add on to my security system. People from all over the world drop in from time to time, and I am still not sure why. BUT I find it cool, and I guess some of the people that come here find it cool also.
Just a family, lots of pets, and the insane life that goes with it.
Just sign my guest book, let me know where you are from, and please be nice. If you don't like it here I see no reason to be mean. If you want, send me some pictures so I know who is stopping in.
Just e-mail pics, or questions, or rants to insanitycam@gmail.com
If anyone knows why, let me know.
But just to recap, this is just a small FAMILY web cam site. We don't do much around here, and you will never see nudity, or anything bad here. Just a hobby for me, and a nice add on to my security system. People from all over the world drop in from time to time, and I am still not sure why. BUT I find it cool, and I guess some of the people that come here find it cool also.
Just a family, lots of pets, and the insane life that goes with it.
Just sign my guest book, let me know where you are from, and please be nice. If you don't like it here I see no reason to be mean. If you want, send me some pictures so I know who is stopping in.
Just e-mail pics, or questions, or rants to insanitycam@gmail.com
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Brew Day is coming up.
May the 7th is Big brew day.. But I guess I should explain..
Big Brew is a celebration of National Homebrew Day (May 7th). Each year home brewers around the world invite family and friends to their brewing site on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the holiday. Everyone is encouraged to help out with the brew, enjoy the fun and join in on a world-wide toast at noon Central time.
And this year, it looks like more members of our local home brewing club will be brewing together then in the past few years. I love this get together more then any of the other monthly meetings.
And this year I will miss it... The wife and I will be going on a little trip. Just a little alone time at our first bed and breakfast. So, I might be missing big brew this year, I think our little trip will be really fun.
So, since I wont be here to brew with my fellow club members, I plan to brew this Saturday instead. I am going to start at noon. I will be brewing an all grain, ten gallon batch, of Caribou Slobber! A nice looking Brown Ale.
Wish me luck. I haven't made a batch of beer for a while, but I plan to chance that this summer. After all, I have four empty taps in my back room.. Would love to be able to pull any beer at any time!
Big Brew is a celebration of National Homebrew Day (May 7th). Each year home brewers around the world invite family and friends to their brewing site on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the holiday. Everyone is encouraged to help out with the brew, enjoy the fun and join in on a world-wide toast at noon Central time.
And this year, it looks like more members of our local home brewing club will be brewing together then in the past few years. I love this get together more then any of the other monthly meetings.
And this year I will miss it... The wife and I will be going on a little trip. Just a little alone time at our first bed and breakfast. So, I might be missing big brew this year, I think our little trip will be really fun.
So, since I wont be here to brew with my fellow club members, I plan to brew this Saturday instead. I am going to start at noon. I will be brewing an all grain, ten gallon batch, of Caribou Slobber! A nice looking Brown Ale.
Wish me luck. I haven't made a batch of beer for a while, but I plan to chance that this summer. After all, I have four empty taps in my back room.. Would love to be able to pull any beer at any time!
Monday, April 18, 2011
Family website.....
OK people, I had to say it before, and now I find myself doing it again..
This is a family webcam site. The family deals with my crazy little hobby, but they don't like it most of the time. That being said, some of you people need to stop with the zoom feature on the living room camera. You don't need to zoom in on my wife,s face so damn close. And my daughter doesn't need to be looked at so closely. I will just turn the webcam controls off if need be. Or if it keeps up, I will just start blocking people. And if that isn't good enough, I guess I will shut it down to the outside world all together.
Oh, and "Peter" from ww.com. I don't need your comments.. OK? Thanks.
Keep it clean, be nice to my family, or be gone..
This was just a nice hobby for me, and I have meet some wonderful people here. I don't want to end it but I will. After 6 or 7 years with these cameras it is sad that I am getting all the ass holes all at once.
Brian
This is a family webcam site. The family deals with my crazy little hobby, but they don't like it most of the time. That being said, some of you people need to stop with the zoom feature on the living room camera. You don't need to zoom in on my wife,s face so damn close. And my daughter doesn't need to be looked at so closely. I will just turn the webcam controls off if need be. Or if it keeps up, I will just start blocking people. And if that isn't good enough, I guess I will shut it down to the outside world all together.
Oh, and "Peter" from ww.com. I don't need your comments.. OK? Thanks.
Keep it clean, be nice to my family, or be gone..
This was just a nice hobby for me, and I have meet some wonderful people here. I don't want to end it but I will. After 6 or 7 years with these cameras it is sad that I am getting all the ass holes all at once.
Brian
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Wow, two post, one day!
After I decided to write here this morning, it made me want to work on my site again. I have been on the net for years with these webcams, sometimes they work, sometimes some are down, and I never blog. Opps, ramblin' again. Anyway, I found an unused webcam sitting around so I replaced the dining room camera. And it works really well. But I guess it should. It was high dollar when I picked it up a year or so ago. And it was the exact same camera that I had running. So, since I can't see what I am doing on my monitor, I just shut it down, changed the cams, and reboot. Has a great picture for the 4 or 5 people that drop in my home.
Off to order stuff for my brew day April 16th.
Bks
Off to order stuff for my brew day April 16th.
Bks
Hello Again..
Well I would say that it has been a long time.
I would say that I will start writing more, but I say that all the time.
So I will just write today, and see how long it takes me to post again.
Lots of things have been going on since I wrote last, but I wont go into everything.
On the webcam side, I still struggle with the cameras. The front room cam controls still dont work 99% of the time. And my dinning room cam seems to be out of focus. I would love to fix that camera, but someone....but a fist into the monitor.... I had a little bit of a temper tantrum one day. I was an idiot. I struggle with my feelings sometimes, and I taught myself a good lesson that day.
Things are much better at our house now. And I am working on being a better person.. Well, I try..
The weather was really nice for a week and I go started on my squarefoot gardens. But then it turned cold again. But it was enough to give me and my wife the fever. Lots of outdoor projects coming up. And the pool will need to be worked on soon. Kids can't wait to swim.
Also planning on brewin' some beer the 16th of April. It has been far to long. I have four empty taps in my laundry room. So I plan to jump in head first and try to get them full before summer really gets here. The 16th I will be doing a batch of Caribou Slobber! A nice brown Ale.
I am also planning on getting my remote cams running again. The front porch camera is still down and in need of a video capture device.
I just really wish I could get BDLCAM to work in the living room. I know people love to move cams! And this software is kicking my butt.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Going to take a trip down to Fayetteville, West Virginia in May. A friend told me about a nice bed and breakfast and the wife and I really, really need to get away. It will only be a short two day trip, but should be really nice. Then THE beach trip in June!! We don't get out much, so this beach trip is the best time of the year.. Outer Banks, get ready for us!!
Don't know if anyone will see this, but feels good to rant and rave, and write once in a while...
Till later, Bks
I would say that I will start writing more, but I say that all the time.
So I will just write today, and see how long it takes me to post again.
Lots of things have been going on since I wrote last, but I wont go into everything.
On the webcam side, I still struggle with the cameras. The front room cam controls still dont work 99% of the time. And my dinning room cam seems to be out of focus. I would love to fix that camera, but someone....but a fist into the monitor.... I had a little bit of a temper tantrum one day. I was an idiot. I struggle with my feelings sometimes, and I taught myself a good lesson that day.
Things are much better at our house now. And I am working on being a better person.. Well, I try..
The weather was really nice for a week and I go started on my squarefoot gardens. But then it turned cold again. But it was enough to give me and my wife the fever. Lots of outdoor projects coming up. And the pool will need to be worked on soon. Kids can't wait to swim.
Also planning on brewin' some beer the 16th of April. It has been far to long. I have four empty taps in my laundry room. So I plan to jump in head first and try to get them full before summer really gets here. The 16th I will be doing a batch of Caribou Slobber! A nice brown Ale.
I am also planning on getting my remote cams running again. The front porch camera is still down and in need of a video capture device.
I just really wish I could get BDLCAM to work in the living room. I know people love to move cams! And this software is kicking my butt.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Going to take a trip down to Fayetteville, West Virginia in May. A friend told me about a nice bed and breakfast and the wife and I really, really need to get away. It will only be a short two day trip, but should be really nice. Then THE beach trip in June!! We don't get out much, so this beach trip is the best time of the year.. Outer Banks, get ready for us!!
Don't know if anyone will see this, but feels good to rant and rave, and write once in a while...
Till later, Bks
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