Rice County’s new Emergency Manager Joe Johnson, as well as Rice County Skywarn, got a good write-up in today’s Faribault Daily News on how to stay safe and vigilant during tornado season. Give it a read!
Big Nine Music Festival
Really excellent performance by our Big Nine select performers! Since I was at the Jordan Motokazie last night, Bethany and I listened to the grand finale concert this morning, and had a nice homemade breakfast afterwards. If you want to lay back on a rainy, gloomy Saturday and listen to some great music by talented musicians, this is a great way to start!
Leave it to May!
May Bottke, my Kindergarten teacher, surprised me yet again! Today, I received a birthday card in the mail from her, wishing me a happy 46th birthday, along with a special personalized note.
It’s widely known that May has a special gift of remembering birthdays of her former students. It’s astonishing when the fact is May herself will turn the big 100 this coming November!
A Trip to Kaua’i, February 2024
Sunset Wall at Koloa Landing, Poipu
Koloa Landing Resort Pool, Poipu
Auli’i Lu’au, Poipu
Parts of the drive from Poipu through Hanapepe to Kekaha
Kekaha Beach, Kekaha
Back at Koloa Landing
Catamaran tour/whale/dolphin watching of the South Shore, from Hanapepe to Ki’hei
Grilling out!
Turtle watching at Poipu Beach
Poipu Tree Tunnel
County Skywarn leader fills in local temp record gaps
It was a pleasure sitting down with Colton this afternoon to describe a little of what we’re all about at Rice County Skywarn!
New mechanical SCSI hard drive replaced in an Apple Mac SE FDHD
I replaced an old Quantum SCSI hard disk drive in an Apple Mac SE FDHD this afternoon. A project long overdue! I needed to use the third-party Lido hard drive management and partition utility to get the Apple to recognize a non-Apple hard disk drive. Just as proprietary and “closed ecosystem” back then as they are today!
Dashcam captures a car grazing a deer on State Highway 3 between Faribault & Northfield
A very close shave for the car!
Various Clips from our September 2023 trip to New York City
From Newark to Midtown on rail, Lower Manhattan, Central Park, Metro-North rail to Poughkeepsie, Little Italy, Grand Central, Times Square, and the rooftop lounge back at Hotel Scherman just off Times Square.
Minnesota Radioddity GD-88 Codeplugs for DMR
The Radioddity GD-88 is a neat, inexpensive new dual VFO analog/digital handheld transceiver. Since no codeplugs are publicly available for this transceiver that I have found, I made one based on the Anytone Codeplugs by Eric Ganske, W0EDG.
Check out the instructions and codeplugs at the link below: