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Jose has left the building

Looks like TD11 grew into TS Jose yesterday evening while we were busy cleaning house and getting ready for the horde to descend.
That makes 10 named storms for the year so far. Next up…Katrina. From the 0530 TWO, it could be this one:

THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LARGE TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN ABOUT 700 MILES WEST OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP INTO A TROPICAL DEPRESSION DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES WESTWARD OR WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

or this one:

CLOUDINESS AND SHOWERS EXTEND FROM EASTERN CUBA AND HISPANIOLA ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS AND THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS…AND INTO THE ATLANTIC FOR A FEW HUNDRED MILES. THIS ACTIVITY…WHICH IS POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TEN…HAS BECOME MORE CONCENTRATED THIS MORNING NEAR THE SOUTHEASTERN BAHAMAS. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM IS POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AS IT MOVES WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT ABOUT 10 MPH.

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TD 11

TD 10 fizzled out and now there is TD 11, which looks like it won’t be much more than a big rain event for central Mexico.
From today’s noon discussion:

UPPER-LEVEL OUTFLOW IS VERY STRONG AND THE WATER IS WARM…HOWEVER…THE SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE VERY LONG OVER THE WATER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. ALTHOUGH NEITHER THE SHIPS NOR GFDL INTENSITY GUIDANCE MAKES THIS SYSTEM A TROPICAL STORM…I PREFER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION IN
FORECASTING THE DEPRESSION TO REACH STORM STRENGTH.

TD 11 - 22-Aug-05

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I need a bigger computer

I’ve been wanting to add some USB 2.0 ports to my desktop for quite a while now, and after saving up some hard earned allowance money I picked up an IOGear 5 port USB PCI card from Amazon.com. Go to stick it in the computer, and thanks to the extra-wide graphics card, I discover there’s no more room for another card. There’s still an available PCI slot, but it’s rendered unusable by the graphics card.
Crap. That means I have to take something out. There’s the modem, but that’s got to stay (at least until I decide I want to shell out for broadband). Soundcard…well I’d like to keep that around. IDE controller…got the big hard drive attached to that, so it has to stay. That leaves the video capture card. Since I have no TV/VCR/DVD to feed into the card yet, it’s not doing much at the moment. Sucks to lose the Firewire port on it though, but it’s the most expendable card right now so out it comes.
9 USB ports on board (4 USB 1.0, 4 USB 2.0, 1 internal USB 2.0) should give me plenty of expansion room for now I figure.
Next on my upgrade wish list is one of these and maybe some RDRAM. That should keep my system usable for a few more years.

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Crate #4 and counting

20-Aug-05 - Almost 8 months, 62 pounds and outgrowing yet another crate.Nala will be 8 months next week, and she’s outgrown yet another crate. There she is sitting in crate #4, a big jumbo sized 41″ long travel crate from SuperPetz (and the largest travel crate they had in the store). Her last one #Crate #2) was a 36″ long travel crate that she was getting a little long for. Crate #3 is a 42″ wire crate that stays at home.
I think this will be the last crate we get. Any bigger and we’ll have to get a bigger vehicle. This one barely fits in the trunk, and pops the trunk door like a jack-in-the-box.

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It’s finally done!

Finally the floor in the bedroom is done. Naturally of course, the wife’s visiting relatives decided to change their minds and come Monday evening instead.

Worked most of yesterday evening on it on my own (wife was busy with other things…no need to rush anymore anyway) and finished it off this morning. Put in the trim and some of the other transition strips in the rest of the house too. Just a couple more transition strips to put in (between the floor and carpet and for the bathrooms), a little bit of clean-up and we can start moving back into the bedroom!