Category: Around the Big House

Christmas is Past – Thursday December 30, 2010

Christmas 2010 has come to an end.   The tree is coming down and we are getting ready for spring 2011.
Not a great picture but a quick one from my camera.Poor tree without any lights.
It’s sad when the tree has to come down.
The tree used to go to into recycling and a little fire wood.
Now it goes into a box.
The tree was replace with a Spring time goal.   Hope you had as GREAT a Christmas as I did, Happy New Year.  Harry

Weekend at Home – Sunday November 14, 2010

I spent the weekend working around the house and on the motorhome.

On the motorhome I put in an electrical management system which will protect the coaches electrical system.  It seems that more state and federal parks are not able to keep their electrical systems up to date.  This electical management system will check to ensure the incoming electrical system is grounded and wired correctly.  It will also ensure we do not get any volt spikes and low voltage situations.  When the voltage drops below 104 volts this system will disconnect from the incoming electricity.  This is important because the A/C system and microwave will operate below 104 volts however the low voltage will burn up the motors.  The A/C units are over $3000.00 a piece to get fixed.  After a couple minutes the system will sample the incoming electricity to see if  it’s above the 104 threshold.  One of those investments that may save a bunch of money.  While we at Zion this fall the electrical system at Watchman Campground over heated and shut down.  It took them most of the afternoon and digging up a bunch of power lines to get it back up and running.

Also finished the mounting bracket for the catalytic heater fan.   I will post pictures of this fan system on my website later this winter.

I did some work on the website, spent 4 hours review fall vacation pictures and got 121 posted on the site.  I didn’t get many captions added the pictures explaining where and when they were taken, a project for another rainy weekend.  You can find this google slide shows at this link. This trip is listed as Vacation Fall 2010.  Have a great week.

Changed the UTC time setting to match Pacific standard time.  I think, it is about 10:20 p.m., we’ll see what time come out on this post.

Again have a GREAT week, Harry

Holiday Weekend / Vacation Monday September 6, 2010

We spent the holiday weekend at home playing and getting ready for VACATION.

Got a new computer and I’m spending time getting it all set up for the vacation south.  Also added a D-Link DIR-615 wireless router replacing the wired D-Link Brian bought when he was home from college.  That was a long time ago (and I still miss him).

I want to use the laptop to do more photo editing and getting better at taking pictures.  I hope to post more pictures while we are on vacation than I did last spring.  In the spring I could only post picture took on my cell phone.  The last couple of years I have been downloading pictures from my camera to either my ipod or later Jean’s ipod, Jean has the 80 gig drive and I have a 30.  When we got home I’d then transfer the pictures to my computer.  On this trip I’ll download to the laptop and than be able to upload to the website or google site.   I’ve set up the computer to tether to my Droid for internet connection.   Should be fun.

Any way it was another great weekend with a 3 day work week.

New Toy -Thursday September 2, 2010

Just added to my collection of toys,  Dell 17 inch laptop.  Hard to call it a laptop it’s more like the whole desk top.

If I was going to get a laptop I wanted one with 10 key keypad.  I was also looking for an i5 processor and a Dell.  I could get this one at Bestbuy for about the same price as ordering it from Dell.  I actually waited to long to be able to get this toy directly from Dell before we left on vacation.   If I ordered it now it would not come until after we left.  I want to us this computer to up load pictures from my camera and try to improve on them.

Any way I don’t need it but I think I’ll enjoy it.

Tethered Droid to Laptop – Thursday August 26, 2010

This post is coming from Tanya s laptop THROUGH my Droid,  I think this is cool.

I borrowed Tanya s old laptop to take on vacation.  My goal is to download pictures from my cameras and use this computer to update this blog.

By the way I didn t miss the apostrophes in  Tanya s and didn t, the apostrophe key does not work.  I ll let you know if I find any more.

HarryLange.com – Thursday August 12, 2010

Over the last several days I have added a bunch of pictures to my website, 1089 to be exact.  All the pictures are in Google slide show presentation format.

I put them on a google web page because it is really easy to manage them with google’s Picasa.  The web albums are easy to link to my website and all the pictures are stored over on google.  Google has 1 gig of free storage and 20 gigs is $5.00 a year.  The 1089 pictures is 326 megs.

To Brian and Stine, hope you are having a great time.
Tanya, good to hear from you today.

PS.  the site maybe down for a while over the next couple of days, I requested a dedicated IP address today and during this process the site may not be accessible off and on for the next 72 hours.