New weather station

Submitted by admin on Sat, 07/23/2011 – 17:04 I’ve just completed putting up a basic weather station at our new home. This time it’s a wireless system from Ambient (WS2080). There’s great free software, Cumulus, that I’m using to post the local detailed weather (http://weather.theweissguy.com). No wind data since it’s impossible to site it well […]

Trail Closed!

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/29/2010 – 13:00 Well, it was great while it lasted. My backyard short but fun bike trail has now been closed & posted “No Trespassing” by the owner. I was under the impression that it was on town property but apparently such is not the case. Alice tried to convince […]

Earl’s damage; new gearing

Tropical storm Earl dropped heavy rain (2.3 inches)which, with the wind, caused my weather station to shut down. Restarted it this morning (beautiful, sunny and DRY) with no problem. I need to see if I can fix the software to prevent a recurrence of the problem. With the great weather and a just arrived new […]

It’s almost winter again – mountain biking!

Long hiatus but back from my Whistler mountain biking trip with Christopher. I am now a convert. He built a great bike for me, used up his supply of excess parts so I got a bargain! Here’s a video of our trip – more coming later. WhistlerMovie 1 from Marc Weiss on Vimeo.