Old Faithful Chat’s Chat Logs November 2nd, 2008 View November’s Logs « October 27th, 2008 November 4th, 2008 » 12:22 Graham hi there 12:22 kentish-man Hi 12:22 Graham That's Dome 12:22 kentish-man Yeah? 12:22 Graham the highest feature on the hill 12:22 kentish-man I wonder why it's not on Scottsmaps 12:22 Graham Its in Scotts book. erupts for a few mins every 20 12:23 kentish-man I'll look again 12:24 Graham Its the furthest to the right and outside the boardwalk loop. 12:24 Graham Looks like its quit now 12:26 kentish-man As you said in the email, the cam zoom gives a missleading view 12:26 Graham Yes. Plate looked quite impressive though 12:27 kentish-man Last thursday at 11:58 MDT I saw Depression. 12:28 Graham It slowed down a lot this year. A year ago you could get two daylight eruptions, early and late 12:28 Graham did you see Grand or Beehive? 12:29 kentish-man No, but I wasn't looking for the entire period you were away. 12:30 kentish-man Since I've been a cam operator, I have only seen 2 Depressions and 1 Plate. 12:31 kentish-man I'll be glad when they get the zoom back to how it was when Tom first installed this new cam. 12:31 Graham Plate has been infrequent this year too. Have you seen Uncertain? I saw it a couple of weeks ago. 12:31 kentish-man I may have seen it but not recognised it. 12:31 Graham Yeah its frustrating not being able to zoom in close 12:32 Graham it's to the left of the Sawmill Tree, a slender vertical stream of water. 12:32 kentish-man I used to have an online encyclopedia of Geysers in this chat room with me, (Bruce Jensen), but he's been missing for a while now. 12:33 kentish-man But weekdays was usually the best time to catch Bruce in here. 12:33 Graham Its a cone geyser right on the edge of Sawmills crater. Its in one of the pictures I sent you erupting with sawmill. Probably only visible when Sawmill is not erupting though from here 12:34 Graham so what got you interested in the geysers? 12:34 kentish-man Just happened to stumble upon the static cam one day. 12:34 kentish-man And the interest grew from then 12:35 Graham ok, thats good. The visitor center closes today, so even OF eruptions will be harder to catch next week. 12:35 kentish-man I also used to watch the webcams at the Mirraflores Locks on the Panama Canal 12:36 Graham ok, never visited that site 12:37 Graham Looks like the weather is going to turning bad now in the park 12:37 kentish-man Have you ever seen this cam? http://bozemandailychronicle.com/skycam/ 12:37 kentish-man It has similar controls to our cam 12:38 kentish-man Anemone 12:38 kentish-man and Pump 12:39 Graham yeah, have to watch Anemone when the winds blowing this way. 12:40 kentish-man Have you ever seen any water coming from that small vent to the right of O.F.? 12:40 Graham All I have seen there is steam 12:41 kentish-man That focus is playing up again 12:41 kentish-man I'm watching on the stream 12:41 kentish-man It's pumping in and out of focus 12:41 Graham Yes, I just noticed that. Hard to focus on grey-on-grey 12:42 kentish-man As much as I love running the cam, it's nice to sit back and watch someone else driving occasionally. :-) 12:43 Graham its interesting to see the different styles too 12:44 kentish-man Did you see any of George's live lectures? 12:44 Graham Now I want to see the snow build up before I go in January.... 12:44 Graham No i have not seen them. 12:45 kentish-man Do you have a cell phone and if so, can you send text messages with it? 12:45 Graham I have a work cell which does text messages. Why? 12:46 kentish-man When you are next in front of the cam, you could text me and I can zoom in like I did when Carolyn was there. 12:48 kentish-man I even made a DVD of Carolyn beside George when he was giving his lecture 12:48 kentish-man I mailed it to her 12:49 Graham I must admit when i am in the park I usually am out watching geysers and spend very little time up by the cam or in the VC excpet to update the log book. 12:51 Graham I did stop and listen to one of the talkas a bit this year when I was doing laundry at the snow lodge. It was someone else then. 12:52 kentish-man George was broadcast live via the cam. Tom was controlling it from the VC. 12:53 Graham ok, did they post that on the web site? 12:53 kentish-man I think it was advertised somewhere. They did a few of them. 12:54 kentish-man George had a radio mike 12:54 Graham Thats a good way to use the cam 12:55 kentish-man Tom warned me about it too, but I have seen him do it. 12:56 Graham Maybe let the cam operator do the voise over.......or maybe not, who would want to listen to me! 12:57 kentish-man It might be an idea for the operator to type the name of the geyser in view. 12:57 Graham Theres Dome again 12:57 Graham and Little Squirt behind the trees 12:58 Graham oh, no thats not Little Squirt, wrong trees! 13:36 Graham Couple of nice splashes from Beehive there 13:38 Graham Grand at 1338 13:39 kentish-man Nice 13:48 Graham second burst! 13:50 kentish-man 40 minutes and gary should take over, but he's hardly ever on time :-) 13:51 Graham ok, thats fine, I am home for the rest of today. Nice to see Grand 13:51 Graham Lion is done 13:58 kentish-man Nice picture 13:59 kentish-man You look much younger than me. 14:00 kentish-man I clocked 60 on October 12th 14:02 Graham 45 in that 2006 Giant pic. Left to right: Ralph and Donna Friz, Pat Sneider, Steve, Tara, Jer, and I. We were all at Giant waiting before dawn and it went around noon. 14:03 kentish-man Did you see Dave Montieth's wife running around with her camera screaming? :-) 14:04 Graham Yeah, there were a lot of people running around screaming, not just Tara. I saw 3 eruptions in 2 weeks that trip. 14:05 kentish-man Have you met Carolyn yet? 14:06 Graham Yes, I mewt here in May at OF and then at Fountain 14:07 kentish-man I think you'll like the 2 cam captures I just sent you :-) 14:08 kentish-man Have you met Tom? 14:10 Graham Good pictures. I have never met Tom, only through email and my phone interview 14:13 kentish-man Tom sent me the 2 pictures I just posted to you. 14:14 kentish-man He was very concerned that he looks "goofy" in pictures. 14:14 kentish-man Personally I think he would look great in a red gown at christmas :-) 14:15 Graham yeah, he looks like a ranger though. 14:16 Graham Dome is going again 14:16 kentish-man Scott says it can play up to 30 feet 14:16 kentish-man I would love to see that. 14:17 Graham I hear it is big for the initial eruption but the following eruptions are all small. They erupt from depth and you can hear the churning standing on the boardwalk 14:18 kentish-man Wow 14:18 Graham I have never seen it start though 14:19 kentish-man Changing the subject. Do you live far from Skyline Drive? 14:20 Graham about 70 miles away. I didnt get there to see the fall colors this year though 14:21 kentish-man My friend and his wife took me for a ride up there back in 1972. 14:22 kentish-man In there 1968 Chevi Kingswood station wagon. 14:22 kentish-man their 14:22 Graham its a great highway, and you cnago on down to North Carolina too on the Blue Ridge Parkway 14:23 Graham did you like the views? 14:23 kentish-man I have a Skype friend who lives in Hendersonville NC. He can see the Blue Ridge mountains from his house. 14:24 kentish-man From what I remember, we were surrounded by trees most of the drive. 14:25 Graham yeah, there are more views when you get down south. This time of year the trees are beautiful red/orange/yellow colors 14:25 Graham I like going in the winter when the streams all turn to ice and you get ice on the rocks 14:27 kentish-man My late friend who took me up there often told a story about a time when he and his family were camping there, and a large Bear came up to his camper and scared the hell out of him. 14:28 Graham but they are not Grizly beaars in Virginis 14:29 kentish-man No, but even brown bears seem big where you're up close to them :-) 14:29 Graham they were trying to get into the Inn parking lot in May... 14:31 Graham i am going to get up and stretch a bit. Talk to you later 14:31 kentish-man OK, I'm off to be soon. 14:31 kentish-man bed 14:31 kentish-man It's 9:31 here 14:31 Graham ok. I will be back on at 1600 MST tomorrow. 14:32 kentish-man 1600? 14:32 Graham 4pm Mountain, 6pm Eastern 14:33 kentish-man I'll be gone by then probably 14:33 kentish-man that is 2300 here 14:33 Graham ok, thats my usual time to start after work on Monday and Wednesday 14:33 kentish-man No problem. 14:33 Graham I cant get home before then 14:33 Graham have a good sleep 14:34 kentish-man Carolyn might do the hour before you start 14:34 kentish-man Goodnight November 4th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 2nd, 2008 November 6th, 2008 » 11:31 kentish_man Hi November 6th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 4th, 2008 November 10th, 2008 » 11:21 kentish_man Hi 11:23 captbunzo hey derek. how's it going? 11:38 kentish_man Sorry, had the room minimised 11:38 kentish_man I'm just about to go get some tea. 11:39 kentish_man Carolyn's out for the rest of the day so there will be no-one to take over when I sign off at 2200. 11:40 kentish_man Back later November 10th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 6th, 2008 November 11th, 2008 » 12:33 bpnjensen Hi - I found a couple of minutes - whew! 13:39 kentish_man I'm back now November 11th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 10th, 2008 November 13th, 2008 » 10:38 kentish_man Test November 13th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 11th, 2008 November 15th, 2008 » 13:28 kentish_man Test November 15th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 13th, 2008 November 16th, 2008 » 11:26 kentish_man Test 11:33 kentish_man Hi 11:33 kentish_man I'm Derek 13:31 kentish_man How are you? 13:31 Graham Hi there 13:32 Graham doing good, just figured out whats going on with Turban - it went ~1320 so I will keep looking for Grand every 20 minutes 13:32 Graham Lion has been splashing - it was a while ago anyway, quieter now 13:32 kentish_man There's been a lot of steam in that area all day 13:33 kentish_man I did see a Lion earlier but I didn't log its time 13:33 Graham I saw it pick up around 1300 and then again at 1320, so it must be Turban 13:33 Graham Got Daisy at 1311 too 13:34 Graham Nice Beehive and Depression this morning, I saw them 13:34 kentish_man Wow, I didn't know I had an audience :-) 13:35 Graham Yes you did. Pat Snyder missed it, she was taking a shower and came back to see the post-eruptive steam. 13:35 Graham There were probably a bunch of people watching 13:35 Graham I dont think theres ever a time when nobory is watching 13:36 kentish_man I've been feeling a bit rough for the last couple of days. I think I may have caught my wife's cold 13:36 kentish_man Fortunately I don't have it as bad as her 13:36 Graham uhoh thats not good. at least I cant catch it from here. 13:37 Graham I am sure thats a mixed blessing though 13:37 kentish_man We went out this morning to pick up a new TV 13:37 kentish_man She watches much more than me. 13:37 Graham ok. what did you get? 13:37 kentish_man The old one packed up a few days ago 13:37 kentish_man Got a Sony 32" 13:38 Graham ok, that should last a while 13:38 Graham this is the first weekend in about 3 months that i have been at home, my mom is on her own now after knee replacement 13:39 Graham so i caught up on erands today too, bouht 4 new tires 13:39 kentish_man paid £399 13:39 kentish_man includes a 5 year guarantee 13:40 Graham lets see if Grand goes this time 13:42 kentish_man Something's steaming there 13:42 Graham That is Turban again 13:42 Graham If its every 20 minutes, its Turban 13:43 Graham Looks like Grand isn't going this time, 3 min in and no Grand 13:43 kentish_man I assume Grand is the only one that jets higher than the trees 13:44 Graham Well maybe Giant but its way to the right 13:44 kentish_man I would have thought that Giant would, but Bruce Jensen told me it didn't 13:45 Graham it is a lot further away and lower, theres a drop off from Grand to Giant 13:45 Graham Aurum 13:46 Graham I saw it on the static cam but couldn't get to it fast enough 13:46 Graham 70second geysers are hard to catch! 13:46 kentish_man I'm watching on the media player so I get things later than you. 13:47 kentish_man I just hope I'm at the controls when Giantess goes next. 13:47 kentish_man I just love the steam phase 13:49 Graham Theres a decent utube video from Dave 13:49 kentish_man I saw that 13:49 kentish_man I never realised the power of it. 13:50 Graham I caught the late series and Vault initial which was nice, the water comes up and it thumps, the surface of the water looks like its covered in cling wrap as it comes up 13:51 kentish_man Am I right in saying the only geyser that roars louder than Giantess is Steamboat? 13:52 Graham Steamboat beats them all and I think Giantess is #2 13:52 kentish_man Aaaah, there ARE animals out there 13:52 Graham There was an thread on the listserve about steam phases last winter I think 13:53 kentish_man What were those animals on the right of the screen? 13:53 Graham I missed them 13:53 kentish_man Coould just see them moving to the right 13:54 kentish_man On the left now 13:54 Graham I dont see anything 13:54 kentish_man I saw them moving slowly. They seemed quite small 13:55 kentish_man There 13:55 Graham ah i see 13:55 kentish_man Halfway up 13:55 kentish_man Too small for bison 13:55 Graham Birds? 13:56 kentish_man If we had the good zoom still, we could find out 13:57 Graham Yeah i hate the fuzziness 13:57 Graham on the static cam too, looks like the glass needs cleaning 13:57 kentish_man Did you see the cam jerk when you panned up? 13:57 Graham I know its been doing that a lot 13:57 kentish_man Like it passed a stiff spot 13:57 Graham yep 13:58 kentish_man I'll be glad when Tom get's back 13:58 kentish_man Craig has also gone away now 13:58 Graham Theres turban 13:58 kentish_man There will be no-one until January 13:59 Graham oh, thats a shame but i understand why 13:59 kentish_man Carolyn and Me feel that Craig isn't very interested in the cam 14:00 Graham Well he probably has a lot of other things on his plate 14:01 kentish_man Yes probably. 14:01 Graham No Grand though 14:02 Graham Sawmill quit too 14:04 kentish_man When I'm on the cam I enjoy having someone in this room to comment on things. Bruce has been busy lately so there's been no-one. 14:04 Graham Yeah im sure its a different experience if you have not been to the park 14:05 kentish_man I take it you will be monday and wednesday as normal next week? 14:05 Graham Yes although I can't do Saturday next weekend. 14:06 kentish_man That's OK, but as I said before, anytime you do get home early and want a play, just email me. 14:08 Graham i usually cant get home much before 6 though 14:08 Graham The week of the 24th is Thanksging week here which is different 14:09 Graham Thursday is a holiday and I will be traveling Wednesday. I might be able to be online Friday 14:10 kentish_man I never mind giving away some hours as I seem to average about 40 per week :-) 14:11 Graham so when are you usually on? 14:11 kentish_man Every day from 9:30 EST 14:11 Graham Theres Grotto 14:12 kentish_man Saturday is my earliest finish 14:12 Graham This has worked out well for me but sometimes I am away 14:13 Graham Wintertime theres not as much daylight to cover either 14:14 kentish_man Sunday and Friday Gary takes over at 4:30 EST 14:14 Graham Better get back to OF since its splashing... 14:14 Graham absense of a crowd makes it hard to remember :) 14:15 kentish_man Monday to thursday I finish at 5:ooEST 14:15 kentish_man 5:00 14:16 Graham ok, i thought carolyn did an earlyu shift too? 14:16 kentish_man She does up to 9:30am EST 14:17 Graham ok, thats not very long now it gets light so late 14:17 kentish_man She often has to go out anyway 14:17 Graham Grand 14:17 kentish_man Finally 14:20 Derek Does all that water simply flow into the river? 14:20 Graham The runoff channels are fairly long from Grand to the river, bit it all goes into the Firehole River. Thats why the river never freezes over 14:21 Graham theres of too 14:22 Derek If it were posible to follow the Firehole down to the sea, what route does it take? 14:23 Graham I think it goes into the COlorado eventually. It leaves the park at West Yellowstone as the Madison River 14:25 Derek I tried to follow it with a topo map but I got lost :-) 14:26 Graham no, it goes North to Bozeman, then joins the Yellowstone RIver, and theMissouri and Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico 14:26 Derek One of my more succesfull projects was following the D&RGW from Denver through the Rockies to Ogden Utah 14:27 Graham Lets see if we get a second burst..may have erupted too log for one though 14:27 Derek That RR snakes all over the place 14:27 Graham yeah im sure 14:28 Graham Looks like just 1 burst 14:29 Derek There's still a lot of steam 14:29 Graham yes but we are at 12 min, so not liely 14:30 Graham not likely 14:30 Graham Thats just Turban and Vent continuing now 14:30 Graham sometimes the quit and you get no steam 14:32 Derek In Arlington, have you ever seen Four Mile Run? 14:37 Graham Yes 14:38 Derek I walked a small part of that back in 1972 when it was still an abandoned railroad grade 14:38 Graham Yeah its been paved as a bike path now 14:39 Graham and for joggers 14:39 Derek The railroad used to run right down to the docks 14:39 Graham times have changed! 14:40 Derek Yeah 14:40 Graham have you found the RR to West Yellowstone? 14:41 Derek Actually I haven't looked yet :-) 14:42 Graham it used to go North, probably easy to follow along the valley route 14:43 Derek Some railroads have actually been re opened 14:43 Derek Such as the Adirondack RR 14:43 Derek Originally Utica to Lake Placid 14:43 Graham thats an interesting area with the rail roads and boats that used to ferry the rick folk to their camps 14:44 Derek My old Arlington friend lived in that area after he retired. A town called Old Forge. 14:44 Derek I visited him 3 times there 14:45 Graham I have only been there once but it was an interesting place November 16th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 15th, 2008 November 17th, 2008 » 07:40 Derek Hello November 17th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 16th, 2008 November 18th, 2008 » 15:14 captbunzo hi derek 15:14 captbunzo sorry I've been absent for a while. 15:14 captbunzo been so busy with work and things. 15:14 captbunzo I see from the chat logs that there is some occassional chatting here... 15:14 Derek Yeah 15:15 Derek I finish at 2200 on the cam now 15:15 Derek Carolyn takes over until Gary or Graham is ready 15:16 captbunzo I saw graham has visited a cpl of times. 15:16 captbunzo that's cool... 15:17 Derek I usually chat to him while he's controlling 15:17 Derek But so far I have not had any contact with Gary 15:17 captbunzo k 15:18 captbunzo that's not the same Gary as "Geyser Gary" on flickr, eh? 15:18 Derek I only know he lives somewhere on the west coast 15:19 captbunzo anything exciting happen on the cam over the last couple of weeks? 15:21 Derek 2 days ago I saw Depression 15:23 Derek Unfortunately the camera has gone back to it's old zoom capability. 15:24 Derek After Tom installed the new one it had a doubler function that made the zoom much more powerfull 15:25 Derek But since Craig played with the server to make the wiper work, the doubler has not. 15:25 Derek Both Craig and Tom are away until at least January 15:26 Derek So if anything goes seriously wrong with the camera, there will be no-one to fix it. 15:37 captbunzo that's no good 15:46 Derek I'm off to bed now. 15:52 captbunzo nite November 18th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 17th, 2008 November 20th, 2008 » 08:50 kalamitykatie hello again 08:51 Derek Yeah X-D 09:14 kalamitykatie I was just reading the prior discussion. Oh, please don't let anything go wrong! 09:15 Derek The cam has a mind of it's own 09:16 Derek We really do miss that extra zoom it had. 09:18 kalamitykatie Yeah, that's too bad. 09:18 Derek Personally I recon Craig accidently turned it off when he was activating the wiper 09:19 kalamitykatie does the wiper work? 09:19 kalamitykatie it must -- there were no spots at wide angle 09:20 Derek Yes but it can only be accessed from the server in the VC 09:21 Derek Tom or Craig can also use PC Anywhere to remotely access the server 09:21 kalamitykatie what a beautiful day! 09:24 Derek How well can you see the camera when you stand on the boardwalk by the seats? 09:27 Derek I imagine it is something you might miss if you didn't know where to look. 09:31 kalamitykatie oh, if you don't know where to look you're not likely to see it. 09:32 kalamitykatie it's about 40 feet up a tree 09:32 kalamitykatie the tree is about 40 yards from the boardwalk 09:33 Derek I have seen pictures of it, but it is difficult to understand the distance 09:33 kalamitykatie those, of course, are "guesstimates" 09:33 Derek Bruce told me that when I zoomed the cam right back, as it is now, that looks about correct. 09:42 Derek I wonder where all the Bison are hiding. They were everywhere a couple of weeks ago. 09:54 kalamitykatie I wonder where the SNOW is! 09:54 kalamitykatie scary! 09:56 Derek There is snow forcast in Scotland later this week. 11:17 mtgirl Morning~ 11:17 Derek hi 11:17 Derek Are you watching this Beehive? 11:18 mtgirl Yeah. I just turned the cam on in time to see it start. 11:18 mtgirl I was supposed to go to the Park this mornning. But, got up to late. 11:18 Derek I thought it was closed :-) 11:19 mtgirl Lol's. Not the northern range. From Gardiner to Cooke City is open. 11:19 mtgirl Dad and I will go in a couple of weeks. 11:19 Derek Grand was at 10:58 11:19 mtgirl That will make me hit the park every month this year. 11:19 Derek Last O.F. was at 10:47 11:19 mtgirl And I missed it. :( 11:20 Derek Castle was 1st thing this morning 11:20 Derek Only Lion yet to go 11:20 mtgirl Jeez....I missed every thing. 11:20 Derek Carolyn is taking over in 10 minutes 11:20 mtgirl Why so early today? 11:21 Derek Wife is not too well so I spent the evening downstairs 11:21 mtgirl I'm sorry. I hope she gets to feeling better. 11:21 Derek Bad cold 11:22 mtgirl Unfortunately it is the season. 11:22 mtgirl Has Carolyn started coming on here? 11:22 Derek Not yet, but Graham Meech has 11:22 mtgirl I haven't seen him on but, I have seen his posts. 11:23 Derek He's a cam operator. 11:23 mtgirl Lol's. You told me. :) 11:23 Derek I haven't made contact with Gary yet 11:23 mtgirl Via email or otherwise? 11:24 Derek The only thing I know about Gary is that he lives on the west coast according to Carolyn 11:24 mtgirl When should Lion be due? 11:24 Derek No idea 11:24 Derek Haven't seen it today so far 11:24 mtgirl Ahhh. 11:25 Derek I've been monitoring since dawn 11:25 mtgirl I should have been on the road before dawn. Will have to do it tomorrow. 11:26 Derek You and Katie are both busy little bees :-) 11:26 mtgirl Lol's. Always seem to be. :) 11:26 mtgirl She at least gets to pop up to Glacier and the National Bison Range once in a while. 11:27 Derek I haven't seen Bison in the O.F. area for over a week. 11:27 mtgirl I noticed. I saw them the morning that was elk and bison but is all I have seen. 11:28 Derek Today I saw just one distant Coyote and a flock of Geese 11:28 mtgirl At least you got to see a song dog. 11:29 Derek Who's that on cam? 11:29 mtgirl What? 11:29 Derek Someone just walked across 11:29 mtgirl Must be a winter employee. 11:29 Derek Dave Montieth advised me not to follow people 11:30 mtgirl Why? 11:30 Derek Something to do with "Park Politics" 11:30 Derek Park 11:30 mtgirl Lol's. 11:31 Derek A week ago I followed the park geoligist walking over the thermal areas checking the sensors and it wasn't apreciated 11:31 mtgirl I figured out why I run behind you. 11:32 mtgirl If I run real time I play to fast. So, it runs me about a minute behind. 11:32 Derek Carolyns on now 11:32 mtgirl Why not? People watch the geologist's whenever they can. 11:32 mtgirl Are you going to take off? 11:33 Derek In a few minutes. I'll be popping back to the desk from time to time but I wont be taking control of the cam again until 7:30 MST tomorrow 11:34 mtgirl Okay. Well, I will have to chat with you some other time. 11:35 Derek If I see you in here later when I pop in I'll call you. 11:35 Derek Bye for now 11:35 mtgirl Try to have a good day. :) 11:35 Derek Day? It's 6:35 pm here :-) 11:36 mtgirl Lol's...okay then have a good evening. :) November 20th, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 18th, 2008 November 21st, 2008 » 13:19 Derek Hello November 21st, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 20th, 2008 November 22nd, 2008 » 10:57 Derek Hello November 22nd, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 21st, 2008 November 23rd, 2008 » 07:04 Derek Hello 11:36 Graham Hi Derek 11:36 Derek Hi 11:36 Graham How are you? 11:36 Derek I think you said you weren't coming on today 11:36 Derek Fine thanks 11:37 Graham Yeah I know but this morning I changed my plans so I am going to be home this afternoon 11:37 Graham Are you running the cam all afternoon? 11:37 Derek What time will you take over? 11:37 Graham I could do it now 11:38 Derek Carolyn was going to take over at 2:00 EST 11:38 Derek Would you like me to phone her? It's no trouble 11:38 Graham ok. I will send her an email to see if she would like me to run it sometime this afternoon then 11:38 Derek She 's a bit slow picking up emails 11:39 Derek I can phone her with skypr for next to nothing 11:39 Derek skype 11:40 Graham ok 11:40 Derek I'll check with her right now. 11:40 Graham So what did I miss here today? 11:41 Graham It looked like Grand around 0810 MST 11:41 Derek She said take over 11:41 Derek Lion was at 1030 and OF at 1053 11:42 Graham ok, nice to see a little snow, gets me in the winter spirit for my trip. Its in the 30's here too so I am getting an early cold blast 11:42 Derek OK, then you can take over now if you like and I'll go for tea. 11:42 Derek I'll call you in here later if you would like some company :-) 11:42 Graham ok. I have some coffee brewing here 11:43 Graham oh, there are some people on-cam 11:43 Graham I will stay in the room here but I might miss some while I do christmas shopping... 11:43 Derek Park worker no doubt 11:44 Derek Leave a message in here if you want to pop out and I'll hold the fort if I'm back fro tea 11:45 Graham ok. I will be in till dark now 11:45 Derek See you later 11:45 Graham yep see you 12:21 Graham Beehive was 1158 with no indicator and another Lion at 1202 13:17 Derek I'm back 13:21 Graham hey there 13:21 Graham Looks like Lion is done 13:21 Derek Still no sign of any animals 13:22 Graham I have not seen any. Still a lot of grass to eat everywhere 13:23 Graham Lots of steam coming from all the features along the river 13:24 Derek I started at 7:00 MST and it's been steamy all the time 13:26 Graham I am trying to see Daisy but I have no idea when it erupted last 13:26 Derek Steaming well 13:27 Graham The steam is mainly from Comet though 13:27 Derek Saw Plate on Thursday 13:28 Graham I think it was going today too at 1209 13:28 Graham One last Lion gasp there on the static cam 13:29 Derek I have three windows runing on my No2 PC 13:30 Derek Media Player; Static and cam controller 13:31 Graham same here 13:31 Graham although I only have one PC 13:32 Derek I got both these given to me by my son 13:33 Graham His old ones? 13:36 Derek When he upgrades 13:37 Graham I have done that for my Mom before but last time she got a new one because my old one was getting to be too old 13:38 Derek These were both built by him 13:38 Derek The oldest is a 1.2 and this one is a 3.2 13:39 Graham Wow, hes a frequent upgrader 13:41 Derek Every 2 or 3 years 13:43 Graham I will need a new computer after Christmas, mine is about 6 years old though 13:46 Graham Right now I am trying to make a phptp book and its slowwwwwww 13:46 Graham photo book 13:46 Graham Plume! 13:46 Graham 62min interval 13:47 Derek I'm cataloging some midi files 13:49 Derek A friend of mine owns a mobile band organ. As well as a Roland synth, it has a full set of pnuematic percussion and 2 real accordians. The whole thing runs on midi files 13:50 Derek She's recently replaced her old player that used floppy disks for a device that uses an SD card. 13:51 Graham ok, thats interesting 13:51 Derek I'm sorting the files for her 13:51 Graham Ah, so all; the data has to be moved over? 13:51 Derek Before, she had about 40 minutes of music on each floppy 13:51 Graham An almost OF eruption... 13:52 Graham there we go 13:52 Derek In total she has about 12 hours of music. 13:52 Derek She uses the organ to collect for charities 13:53 Graham Oh thats good 13:53 Derek She also has 12 volumes of CD recordings that she sells to help pay for maintainance 13:56 Graham I bet theres a lot of maintenance and hard to get parts too 13:57 Derek The parts are quite standard 13:58 Derek The air motors that power the drums and percussion are made of soft white leather and wood 14:01 Graham How often does she use it? 14:03 Derek This year it's only been out 3 times but next year she's hoping to go to more places 14:03 Graham Summer only? 14:03 Derek Her 1st engagement of 2009 is at Easter 14:04 Derek A large festival of steam and vintage transport 14:06 Graham I remember some of the steam engine shows I went to in England 14:06 Derek I go to about 4 each year 14:12 Graham Is the Cam control running slow for you? 14:13 Graham it seems to be bouncing between slow and fast a lot 14:13 Graham faster now though 14:14 Derek Mine is showing 0.75 14:14 Derek 0.91 14:15 Graham 0.12 14:16 Derek 0.72 14:17 Graham Well I am going to close this browser and see if I get more memory back. I am still working on the pictures too which is slowong my computer 14:17 Derek ok 14:17 Graham have a good night November 23rd, 2008 View November’s Logs « November 22nd, 2008 December 2nd, 2008 » 06:59 Derek Hello