Coffee Grinder

I decided to get a coffee bean grinder. Starbucks has screwed up my order 3 times in the past 6 months, I even started getting half pound bags because of it, but I ask for them to grind it for Espresso, and I get it home and it is not ground for Espresso. Well, now I can buy my coffee beans at Wegmans, or anywhere and ground them myself as I need it, and not limited to Espresso, but regular coffee too. I haven't used my regular coffee brewer except once in the last 6 weeks. I am getting ready to store it. And to think I was looking to buy another one for spare parts a few blogs ago, because they discontinued the model I use. Don't get me wrong, it still makes the best coffee, I just drink too much when I brew it. I am down to about 4-5, 4 ounce espressos', or Cafe Breve (espresso shot with a little cream, and about 1- 1 1/2 ounces of hot water) a day. Then I usually buy a 12 or 16 ounce regular coffee when I am out and about, or at work. So I have averaged about 28 - 35 ounces of coffee a day. Much better then the 50 -66 or more ounces I had been drinking! I often wonder too, how many tip when they buy something from Starbucks, or Dunkin Donuts? If you are paying 2.50 for a Red Eye, and then add tip, that is an expensive drink. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I used to work in the food/hospitality industry, but I just don't see giving a tip when you are paying those types of prices. I think Mcdonalds coffee is just as good and half the price. And just to note, if you are watching your sodium intake, Dunkin Donuts is 60mg per 10 ounces, and the other big 2, Starbucks and Mcdonalds are 10mg per 10 ounces. I have put this down from memory, as I researched it over a year ago, but I will look it up again, just to make sure I am quoting the right figures.

Half Me Spin - 3D spin

I am building on yesterdays "Hello World" post. I was testing the same Hello World code with a picture. Just something I threw together quick.

One of my Photos used on a Website! Hooray!!!!

Finally, one of my photos was selected to be used on a website. The woman contacted me and asked if she could use the picture. That's a first for me! She said there are 2 more she wants to use. It made my day, week, year. If you can't get the the link I have included for the web page where my picture is located. I have a copy of what she used it for here:

Webpage link

Some things...

The, first is my eyeglasses. I never thought of having corrective eye surgery before my eye glasses broke. I had this one pair for about 8 years and I just keep getting new lenses for them. They are so light, I love them, but they dropped to the carpeted floor and the one side broke off. Okay, so I wore them for about 2 weeks thinking I'll call the eye doctor and get them repaired, or replaced. Then the other side broke off. I have a lot of stylish eyeglasses from previous years, and I have been wearing them with the old RX for about 3 months, and it is very frustrating. I do get a lot of comments from people about some kind of stylish statement I am trying to make. I tell some of them the truth about my glasses breaking, and take the compliment from the others. I am just being stubborn not getting new glasses or lenses. Come the new year, my Health Benefits will cover another pair of lenses. I tried wearing my contacts, but after the first day with no problem, the second day, I tried to take one out, that wasn't ever in my eye, and my eye got red. So I decided not to wear them for now. I am seriously thinking about the corrective eye surgery, it has been a real problem. My Sister had the surgery and has no problems.

The second thing, I've only made one pot of coffee in the past 4 weeks. Of course I still drink coffee, but I have cut back on the amount of liquids I drink. I was drinking about 2 quarts of coffee a day. Any where from 50 to 64+ ounces a day. I would have 20 or more ounces downed before I left the house. I didn't always want to drink it all, but I hate wasting things. Now depending on if I am at work or at home I drink 1 -2, 4 ounce espresso's a day, and about a 16 and 12 ounce coffee. At home I just drink espresso,and maybe one coffee as I go about my errands around town.. So, I am down to about 28 - 35 ounces of coffee a day. That is much better. If you think about it, you become chained to your coffee cup. I am just as satisfied with the 3-4 ounces of espresso, and I can get a lot more done.

Cheetah3D "Hello World" first program

Well it's been a long time since I posted anything, and I know how I dislike browsing to old blogs, so I will try to keep updating at least once a week. This first post is a test post to see if the first program I made with Cheetah3D, Hello World" works when I post it up to the blog. It works for me on my computer. So here it comes;



I hope it works, it is in the format for an iPhone.
I hope to do some 3D Modeling of people, body parts etc...,and other objects and animation too!

Time Machine

Time Machine backup strategy/solution. I was able to get a 1TB USB 2.0 external hard drive for just a little over a $100 after the rebate. I paid a little more in October 2007 for my original 500 GB external hard drive to use with Time Machine. The 500 gb drive was down to 100 GB left, and I wanted to get the 1TB drive to move the backups over to the new drive, and erase and reformat the old hard drive to use for my digital pictures, and also as a network share off my Apple Airport Extreme, so I can move files back and forth between the MacBook Air, and the G5 Powermac that has 2 internal 400 gb drives. So I should theoretically be covered by the 1 TB drive, since the MacBook Air has an 80 GB hard drive (about 74 available for use), and the two, 400 Gb hard drives (about 370 available for use), so that leaves a total of a little over 800 GB possible to be backed up to the 1 TB drive ( about 931 available for use.

When I bought the G5 PowerMac in 2005, I knew I was going to use it for digital video, and Photography, so I loaded up on the hard drive space. I was starting to run low on space though, even with the bigger hard drives, and I just started taking pictures with my Nikon DSLR this year.

It took 12 hours to copy the approximately 350 GB over to the new hard drive, and then another 6 hours to verify the information on the new hard drive. I had renamed the volume the same as the old volume, and held my breath as I turned off the old hard drive, and then turned on the Time Machine backup, and it connected back up to the new hard drive, and did the hourly backup. I checked the backups, and everything back to the original October 2007 backup was still there,success, Wow!

Definitly a better solution now for the MacBook Air too, now it is easier to share and use files and programs from the shared network hard drive, rather then keeping on the hard drive of the MacBook Air.

I'm shaking off a small cold or flu, just had the flu shot last Tuesday, and today my nose is running,congested, headache, slight fever. Finally napped about an hour, and my nose has dried up, and sore throat gone, so hopefully I'm good to go for the new week.

Some things...

Just catching up on a few things while my bread is baking in the bread machine. Still another hour to go until it is done baking. Put some pictures up to Photrade that I had taken in the last 2-3 weeks. Added a picture of My New Ride - A 2008 Suzuki SX4 Sport. My old Suzuki is 9 years old, so time to give it a break every now and then, I want to keep it a few more years. Bought a Blue Coffee Pot to cook/Boil my coffeed outside over the campstove. It is a different taste, not bad, every once in awhile, but don't think I would want to drink it everyday. I have been fortunate not to have any problems with indigestion so far in my life, but if I did drink that coffee every day, I know it would give me indigestion.
Working on getting more contacts on photrade, ones I like, and adding their picutures here on my blog.
I bought a pork loin, beef roast, and 10 pound frozen turkey yesterday, so I will be doing some cooking in the Big Green Egg, today, and later this week. Most likely cook the turkey later this week, or next weekend. That should hold me over for a month or so, escpecially with the Holidays so near, I'll probably end up getting another turkey or two. Also haven't baked a pie in the Big Green Egg for awhile, time to start thinking on what kind I want to bake.