T minus a-lot

Got a camera, love it. Added some new roughage in the form of leaves to Pyle and turned it a bit. Do dry brown grass clippings count as greens or browns???

Strike!

My 5.5 yr old princess went bowling for the first time. Great family outing. She nearly beat me in the first game and rolled a strike. That chinese buffet did not see our family coming.

Day started with a trip to see the circus. It was pretty cool and princess E loved it. May I please interject that $10 cotton candy should come with jail time for the purveyor?

Pyle!

So, I decided to increase my Gomer score and start a compost pile. It has been brewing for a while now and it is lame to just not do it.

Dimensions are approx 5x5. Used a pile of grass clippings dumped from the summer that were very, very dry and the clipping from today that had a lot of leaves mixed in with them.

Went to take a picture of it for a day 1 shot and the camera won't turn on. Green light just blinks once and that's it. Looks like another unplanned expense in the immediate future. I love newegg..

Today is the Bottom

Today, both brother J and I have indepentantly declared a bottom in the stock market. Jumped into so several positions SPY, IJT and IJS. This slide has gone on quite long enough. I have decided to end it personally by providing support at 850 on theS&P with a massive cash infusion to the market of $500. Hey, it's not helicopter Ben and the T.A.R.P., but it worked.

JOSM Progress

I am guessing that I will need a section on here somehow to spike out GPS related things. I have purchased a Garmin Vista Hcx, what a world of difference between the old GPS 12 and this. Full reviews to come at some point.

I have been working on creating maps and have learned a bit thus far. Roadmaps are based off of http://www.openstreetmap.org. I have completed mapping most of Bethlehem Township at this point but need to focus on street names in some of the areas. .IMG's are being posted to http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/ in an effort to improve the coverage of this area. Also working on Topo maps. Posted one for tug plateau in NY where I just got back from a XC skiing trip. Need to work on the northwest territories in Canada soon to get topo maps ready for a friends Dahl Sheep hunt in August.

Big find of the day was a way around the "You are out of memory, strange things may happen" in JOSM. Apparantly, JVM only allows so much memory. Launching the .jar with this string has allowed the map area to grow by 10 fold. The line below allocates 1 GB memory to JOSM.

java -Xmx1024M -jar C:\logicaldrive\GPS\josm-latest.jar

4 Year checkup

Today was my princesses 4 year checkup, 20% percentile in height, holy crap. She really shot up. Packed on 3 pounds to top out at a whopping 30. Came back to the office and checked out http://www.amidabuddha.org Boy, this couldn't be more true.

"But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. - Buddha"

Rode to work and back yesterday for 16.1 miles. I wish I could do that more.

New Blogger

Upgraded to the new blogger. Forgot I was keeping this.