Friday, July 13, 2018

Commute

Five mornings a week, I drive to work. Five afternoons a week I drive home again. Here's what it's like.
Morning:

Afternoon:



Except that it's a bit slower.

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Sand Castles

We bought a beach house a few years ago. For some reason, it seems that now it's actually harder to get out to the beach. But when I do, I build sand castles. I like to build them tall so they actually collapse numerous times over the course of construction. Here are three of my efforts so far this year,




A good day is when I get to see the ocean destroy them rather than an angry adolescent.





Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Tides

I have a camera at my beach house, or should I say marsh house, that takes a picture every 8 minutes. Every once in a while I download a couple of weeks worth of pictures and cram them together into a movie so that I can watch the tide go in and out. Let's try and insert one here.


Somewhere in here I raked the yard and so you see the leaves disappear and slowly come back again. So, after posting this video, I can see that Blogger compresses it a bit and makes the video a little lower quality than it already is. Here's a link to a better version: Tides

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Lightning

This morning, at about 5:50 AM, the motion detector function in my camera at the beach sent me a picture because it had detected motion. Motion, to a motion detector function in a camera, is a change in what the camera is seeing. When I looked at the picture and then looked at the time it was sent, I figured it should have been dark. Hmm! So I looked on the weather map and saw that an intense storm has just passed through. The light is from lightning. It's an eerie glow. Kind of ghostly.



Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Friends

Everywhere that I work, I have friends that accompany me. Here are my friends from home.


And here are my friends at work.


Monday, February 05, 2018

Stock Market Deja Vu

A few years ago, as I was sitting at my computer, the stock market crashed. I watched it in real time and then I wrote about it on my blog. Here's what it looked like:


Well, today as I was sitting at my computer, I got a message from Preston telling me that all my money was going down the tubes. I managed to catch it going down and watched as the Dow dropped 1,500 plus points. It bounced back a bit but not as well as in 2010. Here's what it looked like:


Eerily similar.

I wonder if the Trumpster, who takes a lot of unwarranted credit for the stock market boom, will be willing to take the blame for this little setback. Nah, I didn't think so.