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.

Happy Thanksgivin'.......

Almost time to cook. Well, not really. I deep fry. Once you drop a bird in 4 gallons of oil, you will never go back to the oven. This year I will be cookin' up a 14Lb. bird and a 6Lb. breast.
That is the other problem with deep fried turkey. Don't seem to have the left over meat like we did in the days of oven cooking. So I am going to toss the extra breast in while the bird is resting.
And oil doesn't take as long as oven cooking. The bird will be done in less then an hour. Will also free up my oven for other things.
Will start the bird around 4pm. YUMMMMMMMM.

Still problems with my two outdoor IR cams. They freeze up once or twice a day now. Is it because they are getting too cold? I don't know. The PTZ has video problems in the cold also. I will bring the camera in for the winter in a few days. Nothing much to see out back now any way.

Also problems with people getting on my blog here. For whatever reason when you click the link to this blog, it adds a 20%, or %20, or on foxfire, it adds something. Then you get the blog can't be found. If you remove the extra crap at the end it will take you here. Not that you will know this if you can't get here in the first place.
Not like this is the place to be, but it is a fun little hobby.

Guest Book, and um, well, I don't know.

I thought it would be fun to put up the guest book. Thought I might get to read a few post from the people that visit my site. Forgot that no one comes here. From the three that have signed it, one was family. So I guess two people ain't too bad for a sad little site in West Virginia. But yes, I know nothing goes on in front of the cameras that people really want to see.

Wife's B-day is the 19th. Hope to spend some time with her. She will be out with the mother most of the day, and I guess I will go to work. Not that I can pay bills with out money, but I do have some taxes that are due the 20th, so I better find a way to pay them I guess. It is just hard to go back to walking the streets after putting on this much weight.

Been working a bit on a mash tun for all grain brewin'. I will post pictures later, but it wont be ready for a good while. Still need a lot of fittings, hoses, etc. and money is getting tighter then ever before. But I hope by next summer I can make the jump to all grain. Better beer dontcha know. Or so they say.

Christmas (not the holidays) but frickin' CHRISTMAS, is just around the corner. Guess I better sharpen my axe. This year I might need to "borrow" a tree from someones yard....hehe

I have been wanting to write about the world today, or more to the point the USA, but I can't get out what I want to say. And no amount of bitchin' will matter. Even from me. The king of bitchin'.
On a positive note, I was tryin' to pick up a few things for the wife's b-day, and I was in a different state close to a great beer store. I stumbled on some bottles of Rogue XS Imperial India Pale Ale. They had four bottles. I had cash for two. I will kick myself later for not mugging,holding up, or otherwise coming up with the money for the other two bottles. But, at $14 something a bottle, I should be happy with what I did pick up!



I like beer.
I am not pregnant, I just like beer.
B

Some wrote me and asked about my cameras. So here they are.

Living room Picturetel PTZ1. Just stuck it on a tri-pod today.
Back Yard Picturetel PTZ1, with the Back door IR cam below.

Back Door IR cam. Something from e-bay.

Front porch IR camera.


Back room USB lifecam.

Front door USB lifecam.

If anyone cares, I will post more about hardware and software later.

Chili Cook off tonight at 6pm

Not that the day is here, I will tell you about my chili. Didn't want the others to see it until tonight. But they don't read, visit, or look at my site! So not sure why I act like this chili will be stolen...I like to pretend sometimes that people read this, and that things like my receipts are looked for...I started with an idea for a pumpkin chili, and found one that looked good. Then I changed everything about it.. I just cant leave things alone. The meat was changed from cubed turkey to Mild ground Italian sausage and ground turkey breast. After that, I go out on my own. I added onions,garlic cloves,yellow and orange peppers diced up and cooked up in olive oil. Chicken broth pure pumpkin, black beans, lots of diced tomatoes, green chili's, diced jalapenos, and think salsa. Also dashes of parsley,chili powder,oregano, cumin,red pepper,paprika,red hot, etc.
It is now on the stove again for a slow warm up over the next 6 hours or so.
Going to carve a pumpkin to serve it out of.
If the awards for best chili look half as good as they did last year I want one!