Well, today I got the rain gauge mounted on the fence and connected to the remote unit of my new weather station. So, I am now able to receive rain data too. This is really fun. I now have the weather station doing the following:
1) updates my web page every 5 minutes (via ftp)
2) sends an email to my work email address on the hour showing the current weather
3) emails out my weather data to my friend Peter at 6 a.m. every day - who travels from Indiana every day to work and therefore it is handy for him to know what kind of weather he is driving "into"
Great fun with a Christmas present!
Today was a good day - I was off work because of my son and we got some good results. Mark had some tests at the outpatient clinic and it all turned out good. So, that's a relief and something to be thankful to God for indeed. I love my son very deeply. It still hits me hard when he must endure the medical things that I have grown used to over the years. Yeah, I know he's an adult now and able to deal with stuff on his own but it never stops me from feeling like his father and that he might perhaps need me during times of stress. I guess that's the way it is with our children. We want to spare them all the less than pleasant things we have experienced along the bumpy road of life. Well, I'm glad that's over and I'm sure he will feel better tomorrow.
I was happy to get my emulator working at my vocation on Monday. It is a debug tool for solving problems with the software that runs in our CPU card. It had been giving me some trouble and so with some help from another engineer, we were able to get it to load the latest compiled code into the CPU for testing purposes. Now that it works, I am ready-to-go for development activity on the new project. Now all I need to do is read all the documents we have available to us so I can see what are the next steps to beginning this substantial feature.
We ordered pizza this evening and watched a couple of movies with the kids today including one called "The Village" by M. Night Shyamalan - one of my more favorite movie producers. Nothing too very horrible ever happens in his movies and they always have a substantial surprise buried in them. Things are rarely what they appear in his movies. He seems like a very likeable young guy with a great vision for cinemetography. Anyway, if you haven't seen The Village - check it out at your local video rental store.
It's back to work tomorrow but I have much to do so that's good.
Thinking about all the family members who are in need of prayers lately and God's support and thankful my son is ok. Those things will surely be in my prayers as I end my day with a little Bible reading.
May God look after all of you. Goodnight and all my love,
Jerry
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Musings, deep thoughts, and just plain dumb stuff from the mind of a fellow who finds himself getting older every day.....
About Me
- Jerry
- Born in Memphis, TN many moons ago. Educated at East High School and Christian Brothers University in the mysteries of Electrical Engineering. Married for 36 years this year to the same lovely lady with three beautiful children. Lived in LA, WV, IN, IL and essentially all-over TX (well, at least on business trips). Love my family deeply, feel very blessed by God (more than I deserve) and appreciative of all the friends I have made in this life! My first car was a Chevy II Nova (in upper right of my picture) - one of the first Nova's of this type made. It had a straight 230 cu in six and Torque Drive. Torque Drive meant it had no clutch but you still had to shift it from first to second when starting out (second to third was automatic). Very unique car. I loved it! Now I have a Mustang GT (going on 19 yrs old) given to me by my wonderful wife and it is still a blast. I now have a new daughter - the beautiful lady my son married! So thankful for all my family!
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