Happy Thursday!
We had a bad ice storm yesterday that left our driveway and sidewalks full of ice. Fortunately our wonderful daughter came to our aid and salted our driveway and sidewalks.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
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Happy Sunday!
Oh what a difference a day makes. The image above was made Friday morning before the big snow fall and the image directly below was made a little later in the day on Saturday. 😦
I have a couple of rants this morning so if you’re not interested in listening to me rant then I’ll say thanks for stopping by the blog and hope to see you next time.
Over the years I have spent thousands of dollars with Adobe™ in software purchases, upgrades, and add ons. My personal information was hacked on their system two years ago and I took no action against them. In short I’ve been a loyal customer of theirs since way back to Photoshop V7.
So yesterday morning I get an email from Adobe™ asking me if I would participate in a survey to determine what future enhancements and product offerings I would be interested in. They cautioned that the survey would take 12 minutes but they would enter my name in a drawing for some prize. I spent a few minutes making sure this was a legitimate survey by going to their website and doing some research. Satisfied that everything was okay I agreed to take the survey. They asked for my name, my email address, and my date of birth. Then I was taken to a screen that said, “Thank you for taking the survey.”
In other words you’re too damn old for us to care what you think! 🙂
Rant # 2: I spoke briefly yesterday about how WordPress™ forced the new editor on us bloggers without so much as a notification. They took away many features that are very helpful and made it more difficult to post a nice blog. The more I thought about it the more frustrated I became by their arrogance and lack of concern for their customers. So I went to the WordPress™ Forums. It didn’t take long to find the subject string about frustration with the new editor. I posted my “give us a choice” statement and then checked the box that said send me any responses to my post. My email box was overwhelmed.
WordPress™ has really irritated their customer base and the maddening thing is they don’t give a “rat’s ass!” Not my words but that quote was posted many times on the forum by different bloggers. 🙂
Okay, if you stayed with me through all this, I’m done. Thanks again for stopping by the blog. Enjoy your day and be careful.
Happy Birthday to my Son Mark. 24 years ago you came into our lives and made them exponentially better. I am very proud of all that you have accomplished and the man you have become.
Since I started this blog in 2010 and have made over 1,100 posts and I have never gone a week without posting something until now. I have not had any images to post, no opportunity to take any images and no time to collect my thoughts to post a blog. Part of that is my fault and some of it has been out of my control. But I have a series of images for you today from the big snow of Sunday.
My main project Saturday was to get my new weather station installed and put outside. Jeanne did a quick one day trip to Ames to spend some time with her Mother so I was without my trusty assistant. Naturally for everything I did right I did it wrong two other times. By the end of the day it was installed and calibrated.
I had a list of 8 things I wanted to accomplish on Saturday and the weather station was the only one that got done. Yesterday during the peak of the storm I photographed the user interface. As you can see it gives a lot of information and although it is still in the learning phase it is forecasting snow. It makes its forecast by the elements it measures and then through a series of algorithms it makes a prediction.
I was delighted to see that we have some finches on the bird feeder yesterday. There was too much snow for the camera to focus on the birds. I tried manual focus but there was just so much snow they didn’t come out right. We had some gold finches and some purple finches. I’m not sure that is the right name for them but I’ll call them that for now.
That’s all I have for you today. Drive safely, be careful and stay warm.
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