Denver is a State of Mind: November 2009

yup, that's me tonight, just a failure. I almost got Brians computer working again, so that's almost good. I think it will work tomorrow, so I guess that's not quite a failure.

We loaded Windows 7 64 bit on Dann's computer today, now there's a failure. It's having a couple of driver issues, and the sound doesn't work. Dann's way too frustrated by this, and he's NO FUN when he gets like that.

I fix things for a living... I HATE being asked "why doesn't it work?"
you see, as soon as I figure out WHY it doesn't work, I'll fix it and it will no longer not work, so the question is completely irrelevant. Figuring out why is the whole trick, fixing is easy once you know what to fix. Being asked why before you've determined the answer is frustrating.

Speaking of frustrating, I'm trying to get this forum software to work. I got it installed, and it actually works, but I'm having trouble linking into it. If you go to http://www.firstgens.com/ you will see a directory, and if you click on the folder "phpBB" the BBS will open right up. I've been trying and trying to put in a very simple homepage "index.html" that only has a single line of text and a hyperlink and I just cannot for the life of me get that link to open the BBS. It doesn't even open if you type the whole link into your browser. http://www.firstgens.com/phpBB/index.php won't work. Anyone know the answer, pass it on please?

And lastly for tonight, I'm wondering what happened to Mark and Sandra? I talked to Sandra and both kids last week Tuesday, after Mark and I got back from Vegas. Since then, no one answers the phone or emails or pm's... I'm beginning to thing I smell bad. :(
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And it's still got one more day.
Today my name was mostly woodwork. Since I finished the stairs Thursday, the project of the week became completing the basement apartment that used to be my Mom's. I'd never really finished it, it's tough when someone is living there... So Friday I started trimming out the batheroom. I had enough pieces finished to do most, had all the baseboard, linen closet door and frame, and such. but I did run out, so had to make a bunch more peices. The kitchen was missing a louvered bifold door, jamb, trim, etc, so I did those too.

Just finished the last coat of poly, so the garage is full of finished woodwork.

Carol and I spent the afternoon working on things at her studio, too. I got back on the roof, and this time I think I got that leaky skylight sealed for sure. Also filled 6 more bags with leaves. 3 more tommorrow ought to do it. Also need to fix the drywall around the leaky skylight.

I tried figuring out how to install phpBB, but so far I'm a failure. It says it can't log into the database, I think I'm making some sort of syntax error in the user name or database name. Gonna work on that some tonight. Anyone wants to post up some ideas for the homepage at firstgens.com, lemme hear em.
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Well, it turned out to be a major brain fart on my part. Last week, my router went kaput. Some digging revealed that "mr. nobody" hit the master reset switch, resetting the router to factory settings.
Of course, all of my children denied having any knowledge of this, even Dann the 18 y o high school senior computer wiz kid denied any knowledge of a rest switch on our linksys router.

But I gotta call em as I see em. Someone did a websearch on why our router drops our connection a couple times a day, and found a suggestion that holding down the button while powercycling the router might help. Well hell yes it helps. It resets EVERY setting in the router to factory default. PPPoe login info is gone, so no more internet. wireless name and security is gone, so no more wireless, and port forwarding and other firewall settings are gone, so no more website or jim cam.

I got everything but the last 2 working the first day.
And today I found that it helps a lot if you click on the ENABLE button in the port forwarding screen.

So... jimragtop.com is back on the air, as is the jim cam on jimragtop,com:12000 user team password camaro.

So... check out my website, and take a peek at me lounging in my recliner tonight, surfing the net with my laptop. Oreo, the black and white kitty, is on the other lazyboy.

I need to do some studying. I have a new website, http://www.firstgens.com/ Right now, there is nothing there. I need to get something going there.
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Hi all, and Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent the day at Carol's sisters with most of her side of the family. It's almost weird with all the kids getting grown or near grown. Food was great, as was the company.

Before we left, that big black scab popped off the thumb. It does look like it might scab again, but it's nearly done healing now.

Seems the website and camera are down, something to do with the router trouble I had last week. Gonna have to call AT&T tech support again.

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Hi all, cheated death again. Takeoffs still equal landings, always a good thing.
I'm gonna go thru some pictures, but we had a fine fine time.

In case I don't get back here tonight, I'll leave you with a thumb update.

It's healing right up. The black thing in the middle is a scab, and it'a about ready to fall off, another day should do it. The new skin is pretty tender, but will thicken up in time.

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Well, the weekend is in the record books.

It was an anticlimatic finish for sure, with an hour long cleanup followed by bye run finals in pro street and outlaw 10.5.
The drag radial final was a good one, then we left after another oil down.
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Good morning from the strip!

First round of pro street is in the history books, outlaw 10.5 coming nest!
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Good morning and happy Sunday! This is Mrs. JimM. I thought I would write a post while the hubby is kickin' it out in Vegas with his buddy from up there in Ya-Hey-Der land. Oh by the way, he cashed in MY American Airlines miles for that FIRST CLASS ticket to sin city. Still not sure what that's gonna cost him! Especially since I seem to be left behind taking care of lots of stuff around the house. Yesterday was really special! I took Brian to his school for a work day (he needed the community service hours for Boy Scouts), and got to spend 3 hours cleaning his school. We washed windows and cleaned the pre-school room, but the best part was unboxing and cleaning the school's really old Christmas tree. This involved taking all the teeny tiny little pieces outside, swishing them around in a bin full of cleaning solution and rinsing them off at the outside spigot. After 2 hours of this, Brian and I were soaked from head to toe and about half-frozen. Yeah, I'll get you back for this one honey! When you least expect it - BAM!.............

So since Jim is hanging out with Mark - our neighbor to the north, I figured I would poke some fun at Canadians. Why not? Its Sunday morning and I have nothing better to do. You guys know we love ya!

First up: The Top Ten Reasons To Live In British Columbia

1. You don't have to worry if it is going to rain - it's already raining
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges to the 'burbs
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder
4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown
6. You have a university with a nude beach
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations
8. You have a fleet of old rusted ships that you got for free from China
9. There's always some sort of forest protest going on somewhere
10. People here never get a tan - they rust

Followed up by: The Top Ten Reasons To Live In Chicago

Except I couldn't actually find a top ten list for Chicago, so I guess we suck after all, and nobody actually knows of any good reasons to live here!

Of course, there is one good reason to live here: We have Oprah! And we like to party with her!

And finally, as seen on one my favorite websites http://www.failblog.org/

Hope you're having an awesome time honey! See you tomorrow!

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Hi all, we're still in vegas!

And we're anything but boring. Danielle, thanks for filliing in for me, you done good. Sounds like you had a fun time today, glad the rain held off.

I was thinking bout calling you tonight, but we jusst weren't anyplace qiet enough. I'll call you tomorrow from the track...lol.
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dad and jim are boring - we haven't heard from them much. They must be having fun in Vegas.

We had a great time at the ropes course today with Guides - zip lines and other fun stuff. Luckily it didn't rain while we were there but it has rained most of the rest of the day. It was cold though - my fingers and feet were numb. Want to go back though.

We couldn't get cream of broccoli soup at Tim Hortons so mom made some when we got home. Mom isn't sure what happened to the soup to give us the giggles but we've been laughing all evening.

Almost time for bed, will post again tomorrow.
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Hmmm, i've no idea if this is working, buy i am in vegas
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on the plane then send it l8r but something weird happened.
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alf, but the second half may have posted. Starting right in the middle of a sentence. This is hard with only one useable thumb. I was trying to type a long post
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Well i have no idea what happened with my earlier posts today. I was typing on the plane and suffering from fat finger syndrome, lol. I think i lost the first h
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, the movie is a cartoon, i read a super fchevy and 3/4 of a camaro performers, and i
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. Nice big comfy seat, enough leg room to stash 3 small children, free beer, and a real meal that was actually good! I could get used to this real quick!

But
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the $11 magarita. I think they forgot the tequila!
So i switched to beer.

Finally got on the plane, and to my surprise, seat 6f is in first class! How cool
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Accomodations than we did, the hotel sandra booked is $20 a night! So the truck gets to sleep outside for $16 a night instead of inside for $35. I even got to r
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inal.

Once inside, i got a treat, my boarding pass saie aapriority so i got the short line at securiity. No problems there, but i didn't really think much of
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ide the train thing to the terminal, another first. In fifty years and hundreds of times in and out of o'hare, I've only done main parking and walk to the term
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ly faster, the kenedy was a major parking lot today.

I parked in lot e for the first time in my life, i didn't want my truck to have better
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ote at another customer, and made my way out of the city. As i had plenty of time, i took the scenic route, milwuakee ave to higgins road. I think it was actual
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7!

So i didn't leave the officfe til 2. Dropped off an order, went to mr. Beef for a late lunch assuming they wouldn't feed me on the plane, dropped off a qu
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's night and i can't see squat.

Was jonesin bad at work today, it only got worse when i read the fine print and found the my flight didn't leave at 4 it was
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Hi all! I'm somewhere over the rockie mountains, passed colorado springs and denver a lil bit ago. Weather is crystal clear all the way from chicago, too bad it
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Time to try a test from the phone, let's see what happens
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Barely made it thru work today. Left around 3, went to heritage woods to try to help my Mom with her TIVO. Ever since Comcast went all digital, her tivo has been very confused. The cablecard got all the channels, but tivo's tv guide had no idea what was on them. So I managed to do a full setup on it, and believe it or not, it works!

Got a haircut too, if yer paying attention, it's the second hair from the left.So now Im, looking gooood for the trip. Got everything stuffed into my bad, 'cept my toothbrush and razor that I'll need in the morning, and the mini toothpaste I still need to buy. Wut's with the airlines these days, you can't bring real deoderant, and you gotta leave your shoes at the desk.

I'm hoping to line up a substitute blogger tonight, but she's off at an important girl-guides meeting and hasn't called me yet. Hopefully her mommy will read my blog and remind her to call?
In the meantime, I need to get my Walmart reading glasses and see if I can set up my windows mobile phone to talk to blogger. They say it can, heck the carned thing can do almost anything, at least they tell me it can, I dunno, can't see the darned thing without the reading glasses.

Anyway, here's where we're going http://www.streetcarsupernationals.com/oscontend.html
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yes indeed, it's been 3 days since my last post to El Bloggo. Maybe it took that long for the hangover to go away? Naaa, didn't have one actually. In fact I was sober before my wife got home! Good thing, too.

Anyway, I been working on those stairs, just finished the third coat of poly, they looook goooood.....
I'll put a fourth coat on em, but they don't really need it.

Tomorrow night I'll get the last coat on, and then they'll be happy sitting there till after Vegas!

Talked to Mark a bit ago, he's sounding pretty pumped up bout our trip. It's gonna be a good time, 3 days of guys and beer and prime rib and DRAG RACING!!!
Still 2 days off though... :(

Had to spend a goodly part of the evening reprogramming my router. No one will admit to holding down the reset button, but she was all factory defualts, everything. Even had to call AT&T to get the DSL user id and password. Their customer service poeple are top notch BTW, nice, friendly, and didn't begin every sentance with "we don't support third party routers" like those others, the ones who do television, do.
So we got internet access again. Server is still restting the dynamic dns thing, so no website or cam yet.

Of course it's a good time for a thumb update. That errant digit is doing really well, Carol called me a "cell regenerating machine" a lil earlier. I got new skin except for a patch maybe 3/8" around. The black thing is even shrin king. It's definitely a scab, it's loose on one side, gonna fall off someday soon. Anywat, here's the thumb

Well, g'night all. Been a busy one, and I just need to check Team Camaro real quick before I head for my bed.

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Can I do this now? it's 2:10 pm saturday afternoon., looks like it's starting to cloud up and cool off, but it's been a beautiful day. My fifth margarita is history, but I spilled the 4rth all over the counter, and half the fifth too I think, so only counts as 3 1/2. Still, I got a good buzz on. That can be my excuse.

Mark, looking forward to next weekend is vegas. May decide just not to come home. You are my best friend without a doubt, and the two thousand plus miles from my house to yours is an endless source of pain. That you would drive all the way here to pick up a clapped out racecar project just tells me you feel the same way. Your highest use is not to drive a truck. We can do better. And we can do it working half as hard and smiling twice as much.

Sandra, you're the best, and hopefully you will someday decide we're not nuts completely. Yes Mark, I'm assuming your support in this drunken rambling. It just goes without saying.

Carol, you are the love of my life, this has not changed, and it never will. Look inside. You accuse me of being grouchy, I'm not, certainly not today. Today, I'm in the hot tub., alone, scrubing it out and having fun. WE ARE NOT OLD. I WILL NEVER ADMIT WE ARE OLD. I will not get old. I refuse. I am not grouchy either. I only seem grouchy when I am forced to think like an old grouchy person!!!!

I do truly believe, sober or not, that if you put Mark and I in the same place, great things will happen.
We are both "go get em" kind of guys. We don't sit around. We don't relax. We're not happy unless we're going balls out on one project or another. We can make a new start. We can do what we always wanted to do. And we will support our families no matter what.

And we are known. People will pay us for our expertise. We can have our cake and eat it too.

So, let's make a plan. Let's get it done. Let's make it happen. Paradise in the rockies is sooo close.
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Some decade or so ago, when we were first planning for our new home, we started cleaning a decade's worth of "lived in" from our existing home.

During this process, we vowed "no more smoking in the house" and "No more CATS!"

So we gave away our cats, and smoked outside or in the garage, but... Before too long Carol brought home a kitten. And then a couple years later, the neighborhood stray had a litter in the neighbor lady's window well, and one of those ended up living here too. Now don't get me wrong, I like my cats, they are very sweet, but... Between the 2 of them we're talking near 50 pounds of feline!!!
They shed like crazy, and they fight over who gets to sleep between Carol and I at night.

But that's not the worst. These 2 critters are so fat that they cannot properly clean themselves. Now the litter box is bad enough (Here, animal, you poop here, 30 feet from MY BED, and we will store it for a week at a time, 30 feet from my bed, and our laundry room will always smell like POOP!!!) but since they can't reach behind thier fat asses and keep thier posteriors clean, THEY TEND TO DROP "CLING-ONS"!!!
And they drop them in my bedroom and sitting room. Sometimes even on my bed!

They call me the floor nazi. I hate dirty floors. Tracked in dirt, spills, leftover food, candy wrappers, it all makes me nuts. Carpet grosses me out. The nasty stuff is down in there, you can't see it and you cannot remove it. You can play at it, yes, it fills the cup in the vacuum, and yes, the waste water in the carpet cleaning machine looks really nasty, but you can't ever get it all out. The pet hair is the worst, no make that second worst.

The worst is those little brown balls that go clickity clack in the vacuum cleaner. THERE SHOULD NEVER BE LITTLE BROWN BALLS ON MY BEDROOM FLOOR!!!

Ok, I feel better now. Back to work. Finishing the woodwork in the guestroom today. Getting going on the stairs. Cleaning around the pool for the winter. Draining, cleaning and refilling the hot tub. Installing the new "blend door actuator" in Dann's car and putting the dash back together. Removing the drivers door inner panel on the vette, tightening the loose outside mirror and putting that back together... dayum, I'm exhausted just typing all this, and I'm sure I forgot a few things.

Oh well, Carol left a lil bit ago to get her hair done and then do a photshoot, she'll be gone most of the day. Brian's at a scout campout. Dann as usual is in his room with the door closed playing world of warcraft... So it's just me, but I've got a full 12 pack of corona, a bunch of limes, and a complete fresh b atch of margarita fixins. So I'll just get a good buzz on and work.
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I bought myelf a plane ticket today... well Carol bought it with her credit card miles. I'm heading out to Las Vegas next weekend for the Street car nationals!

This will be 3 days of total insanity. "STREET" cars, with functional doors, painted on headlights, and 10 1/2" tires, running SIX second quarters at well over 200 mph!
These cars are nuts, it's gonna be fun.

Of course Mark is joining us, as is Royce and a few other Team Camaro diehards.
Danielle, if you're reading this, hide in your Dad's suitcase, we'll ditch the old guys and I'll show you Ceasar's Palace!

Look here for some cool pics and videos http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=168730
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had thier second annual "Taste of Africa" tonight.

Brian goes to Parkview, has since he started thier all day kindergarten many years ago. He's in sixth grade now.

This place is unbelieveable. If you ever doubt your faith, or start thinking maybe there isn't a God, go spend some time at Parkview. We are sooo lucky to be able to send our youngest son there. Yesterday, he brought home a "High Honor Roll certificate" one of 6 awards given to the 6th - 9th graders, and the only 6th grader to make the cut. He works very hard, because he loves his school and his teachers.

Because they are simply the best. When our founder and principal left 2 years ago, we though it might be the end. And then this guy Jim Apker took over, and he's proven to be just great too. Parkview has expanded into preschool and into high school, and still there are less than one hundred students. Class sizes are counted with the fingers on 2 hands. All the students get the help they need to reach there highest potential. Many excel. None are simply average.

The existance of such a place is truly a miracle. Their education of my son is a blessing.
Check them out here http://www.parkviewchristian.net/
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Well almost... That bunny is not as exhausted as I am....
I almost got a little work work done today. I did have to go work on Carol's computer, and also had to deal briefly with my Mom and her tivo. Thanks Dann, for helping me out on that one!

Dog's and brats on the grill for dinner, and then back to my woodwork. I did get you guys some pics, but first, how 'bout a thumb update?
Here's tonight's thumb pic:

It really is healing, pretty quickly now. here's a pic of where I started, exactly a month ago:

So much for the gross stuff.

When we first built our timberframe house, we used carpeting on the kids level, as well as on the stairs from the mainfloor to the kids level, and up from there to the second floor master wing. Yes, master wing, well over 1000 square feet, 7 rooms (the closet, at 8 by 16 feet, qualifies as a room!) but that's another story.

Anyway, I hate carpet. Dirty disgusting stuff, impossible to clean or keep clean. One of my projects this year has been to replace the carpet in the kids wing with hardwood. I used 5/16" prefinished wood flooring from Bruce. Great stuff, very close to the natural finish oak we used in the great room, but considerable thinner than the carpet and pad it replaced. So much so that there was a gap of near 1/2" between the bottom of the baseboard and the new flooring.

Regular baseshoe would not fill this gap. Kinda small aginst my 8" custom made baseboard too. (Yes, I made all the woodwork in this house, out of clear pine lumber) So I made some base shoe. Starting with clear pine 1x2, I first rounded opposte corners on the router, then ripped the strips in half, making 3/8 x 2" base moulding that was rounded over on the top edge.

Tonight I finished nailing this down in the guestroom

You can see the hieght difference, and that I still need to remove and lower the corner block, and make a new taller doorframe block. So the guestroom is almost done. 2 corner blocks to move, and 6 new doorframe blocks to make.

I've also been changing the stairs over from carpet to oak. I got the first one done, from the main floor to the kids level:

So this past weekend I started on the other stairway, this one's a lil bigger at 9 steps instead of just 5. I got Dann to pull off the carpet and pad last weekend, and then I got all the tacks and staples off, and cut off the "toes" of the steps.

Soonly, I'll be cutting 8 steps and 9 risers ($18 and $7.75 each respectively) to exact fit, staining and varnishing them, and attaching the new parts over the old.

Meanwhile, I'm saving money for new carpet upstairs, in the MBR and sitting room. I'd love to do that in hardwood, but the catwalk and loft are done with 3/4" finished in place oak. At $7 per square foot, that just isn't in the cards.

Someday soon, I'll get more into the house... I love our home, we built it with our own blood and sweat, and much of it with our own hands. It's a unique and special house. I'm sad that we will be moving on soon, and hope that we find a family who will enjoy and respect it as much as we have. Still, the plain and simple fact is I'm done. I need to look forward, to a time when my primary focus won't be maintaining my trophy house. Denver here we come!

So much for today, thanks for joining me.

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Spent most of today over at Carol's studio. She worked me pretty hard, all 3 computers, cleaning gutters, even up on the roof sealing up a leaky skylight. I think I got everything handled pretty well though, fingers crossed!

Brian had scouts tonight, finished his first aid merit badge work, and got meal planning and such done for this weekends campout, he should fiunish his archery badge there. He was also named in his school's weekly newsletter as one of 6 students who made the "top honor role" He had 1 a- on his last report card, rest was straight A's! I'm kinda proud of that one, he's a good kid.
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Gooood Mooorning!
Another beautiful day, shower and breakfast are handled, it's 9 am, and I am back at it.

First will sand, seal, and stain those peices of base shoe I cut yesterday.
Then need to finish pulling all the carpet staples off the stairs, and trim the toe of the steps back. I didn't talk of this yesterday, as I had Dann to work on it. I'm "reskinning" the formerly carpeted stairs in Oak. I HATE carpeting!

We still have to finish moving leaves, and mowing the lawn. Also hope to wash the vette, and pull the drivers inside door panel off and tighten a loose outside mirrir.

and other stuff, it's endless. But if I'm ever to get to Denver, I need to finish me casa.
No pics, but the webcam is on, so take your own. http://www.jimragtop.com:12000/ user team p/w camaro
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Good Morning World!!!

It's a beautiful warm sunny autumn day in chicagoland, and I've got lots of activities planned. Shortly I'll be out in the garage for activity one, troubleshooting and repairing what appears to be a failed "blend door" in the heating system of Dann's 03 Malibu.

The webcam is on at http://www.jimragtop.com:12000/
user is team
p/w is camaro
you have to install the active x control for it to work.

First, some breakfast.

You all pull up a chair and get comfy, I'll be out there in a minute.

If anyone has the slightest idea where to find the heater temperature blend motor on an 03 malibu, pas the info on, otherwise I'll be taking stuff apart until I find it.
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I was out and about most of today. I tried to get Mark on the phone, but he wasn't picmking up. I need Sandra to hang out the side of the pickup while Mark does a burnout and a 3 gear peel, need some good diesel audio for the "Hot Rod your Motrorhome" website.

I need a good picture of a nice coach on a cool road (send pics to jimm1968@att.net) for the front page of the website, I'll have Carol Photoshop it doing a hairy burn out while Mark's Powerstroke does the background tunes. It'll be awesome.

Since Mark didn't answer the phone, I called grandma's house (Mark, what's your mothers name, it's impolite to call her "hey you!")
So grandma gave me a talking to about the thumb, suggesting that perhaps I should let the medical profession give me an opinion on if I will survive.
Then I got Danielle on the phone (far too briefly) and listened to her suggest the same thing...

It's good people care about me. Thank you.

But the thumb will be fine. I'm keeping it clean. taking care. Watching close. If there is any sign of infection, I'll be right off to the nurse practitioner in the walgreens drugstore. Foor now though, it's ok. Really.
Hmmm, the webcam has moved. But it's not aimed at me.
I think I'll get some ice cream and give Mark a call.
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It must be getting close to winter, cause our Team Camaro South Side Group had our first get together of the season.

We meet the first Wednesday of every month, at the Hooter in Orland Park, Illinois, for adult beverages, tall tales, hot wings, and girls in orange shorts. If you're in the area, join us next month, on December 2, 2009.

The headcount was nine. The beers were cold, and the tales were tall.
See ya all next month, here's the pics.

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hmmm, I didn't see it happen, but someone muct be on my cam cause it's aimed in a different place. Good thing I didn't pick my nose.

All I got for you today is a thumb update.
At this point I don't even know how many weeks it's been, certainly long enough for me to be getting tired of only having one useable thumb. The worst is dealing with things like snaps, buttons, and zippers. All of these things, on men's clothing, are made to be operated with the right hand. Since I'm left handed this has never been terribly easy for me. With most of the tip of my right thumb gone, it's nearly impossible.

Tomorrow, try to button your pants using only the side of your thumb, at the first knuckle. It ain't easy.

I used a bandaid for the last 36 hours or so. This melts off all the hard crusty scab looking stuff.
Here's today's pic, a beaut, ain't it?

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If you're house is like most, if you have sliding bypass doors in your closets, you have really cheesy hardware. When we built our house 9 years ago, we bought the hardware that menards carried, Lowes and Home Depot carry the same crap. At least the stuff is cheap, less than $20 if I'm remembering right.

Stuff is still crap though. Even looks cheap, and every time my kids so much as touch a closet door, they fall of the track. Here's a picture of the problem

and as you can see, the wheel is off the track.

After some searching, I found a company called LE Johnson Hardware, and they make some serious good stuff. High quality hardware for all types of doors. I got a total 6 of thier heavy duty bypass door hardware with valence. This is serious stuff, with an extruded alluminum double H beam track, and captured 3 wheel trucks to hold the doors. Here's a (no) comparison shot

Big difference, eh?

And here's the finished job

And my kids will never knock them off the tracks again.

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Ya, I missed a day, sorry. I'll post twice today.

Right now, I'm working in the garage on hanging some closet doors, and I am live onCam for any who want to tune in. My team Camaro buddies all ready know all about JimM's garage cam, for the rest, here's how it works:

Thne cam is actually a security cam, a DLink 5300G. It is it's own built in web server, and has power pan tilt and zoom that you can control. It's really funny to watch with new or multiple drivers, as it starts spinning in circles and pointing at the cieling and stuff. To get on, go to http://www.jimragtop.com:12000/.
Without the colon 12000, you just get my website. With the colon 12000 my server passes you to the cam.
The cam will give you a login prompt. The user ID is team, p/w is camaro If you've never logged on b 4, you'll get a prompt to install an activeX control, look for a brown bar at the top of internet explorer, click it and click install. It doesn't hurt, promise. And you only have to do it once.

Once the active X loads, the cam will come up. Right now it is in the garage, sometimes I put in in the great room in the house, and sometimes upstairs in my den. It's almost always on. Enjoy. Leave a comment here or on facebook if you get on, and ask away if you have troubles. I'm on msn as JimM, and "might" also be seen on yahoo / sbc / att.net as jimm1968 or jimragtop.
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