Monthly Archives: July 2016
Name that Park . . .
A few days ago Jan and I were talking about our travels next year, and discussing where we were going to stay. And that led to us to playing ‘Name that Park’
We were going through the almost 5000 photos we took in during our first year on the road in 2008. I would find a photo of us parked somewhere and then Jan and I would try to guess where we were.
Turns out we were pretty accurate, and got most of them right.
Unfortunately I wasn’t blogging during that first year traveling to Alaska, so all we’ve got are a lot of photos and the emails that Jan was sending to friends and families
But in July 2008 we were workcamping in Fairbanks, AK at the Chena Marina RV Park. Chena Marina was on a floatplane base so we got to watch the planes takeoff all the time.
And a few days later, our granddaughter Piper showed up to visit with us for a week.
July 13th 2009
Big Trains, Little Trains, and, uh, More Trains…
In 2009 Jan and I were slowly working our way up the East Coast, with a few zig-zags, on our way to our ultimate destination, Newfoundland.
But on this date, were were staying at Roamer’s Retreat Campground between Gap, PA and Kinzers, PA, about 55 miles west of Philadelphia. What made this place special is that there are a number of train-related things to see in the area, including a full-size train museum, several model train museums, and even a train ride and a caboose motel.
July 13th 2010
Knight and Day…
In 2010 we were staying in Montgomery, AL visiting with our long-time friend’s Fred and Susan Springall. Fred and I worked together at Storer Cable TV there from 1976 to December 1979 when we moved to Houston and I went to work for NASA-JSC on the Space Shuttle.
July 13th 2011
A Little Rain and A Job Delayed . . .
In July 2011 we were in Newport, WA heading east after saying goodbye to Nick and Terry Russell in Bremerton WA. I was trying to repair my transfer switch that had died on our way up from Long Beach WA a couple of weeks before.’
The problem in fixing it was that on our 1999 American Eagle, our transfer switch – inverter – power converter was all in one unit under the bed. So I was trying to kluge a work-around while we were on the road.
July 12th 2012
Hi Ho, Hi Ho . . .
In July 2012 we in our first year of gate guarding, and on our fourth and last gate for that year. At this location, and as at a previous gate, we were literally a stone’s throw from the drill rig, with all the resulting noise. Like parking next to Niagara Falls.
We spent most of this first year following a Marathon drill rig from site to site, moving about once a month.
Thought for the Day:
From our July 13, 2009 blog:
I mean, you’re really got to admire a state where the town of Blue Ball, PA is right down the road from the town of Intercourse, PA, with the town of Paradise, PA close by.
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Not Enough Time . . .
Seen on a license plate.
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What make and color car is it?
A week or so ago I happened to notice that the clock on my Galaxy Tab 4 was off by about 5 minutes. Now this was strange since I had set the Tab to automatically sync the time when I got it a couple of years ago. So maybe that setting had been turned off somehow.
So I went into Settings – General – Date and Time.
And well, it wasn’t just turned off. It was now completely gone.
I know it was there originally, or was I just imagining it?
A Googling told I was still sane (well, I wasn’t any worse, anyway) and that the Auto Time Sync had disappeared sometime in a past update. And nobody knew why.
Now on phones, when you set ‘Automatic Date and Time’ to On, it uses the inherent time signal that is part of your phone’s connection to the cell system. But of course that won’t work on a WiFi-only tablet.
But there are other options. A very, very accurate time signal is available through your GPS connection, and you could also use a program that accesses one of the many online atomic clock sources like ‘time.windows.com’ or ‘time.nist.gov’ like your PC does.
And there are now a number of apps that will fix this. Kind of.
I looked at a number of these apps, and ClockSync seems to be one of the best. But unless your tablet is ‘rooted’ (if you don’t know what ‘rooted’ means, your tablet is almost certainly not ‘rooted’), ClockSync still not not update your device’s time automatically. But it can make it easier to manually sync it yourself.
Check it out.
A number of you have sent me info on the magnets needed for my magnetic shade project. I had already checked Home Deport and they don’t have any that are strong enough. In fact, with the ones I have now, if you can pull them apart with your bare fingers, they’re not strong enough.
Several others had the right ones, but much more expensive than before. And the ones that are vinyl coated won’t work either.
Reader John Cox turned me on to BangGood.com which looks like it might be a good source, and I’m going to check it out.
Wrapping up, I’ve posted another update to Greg’s Favorite Apps. This one is a list of my favorite Reading Utilities.
Check it out.
Thought for the Day:
Strange, but True. And sometimes too close to home.
A few weeks after he became the Dallas Police Chief in 2010, David Brown’s son was killed in a shoot-out with police after he killed a Lancaster TX police officer and another man.
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