The flights came out looking good. This new computer rocks for churning through the processing. It never did use more than 38 gig of memory and the CPU was maxed out for only brief moments. I like it!

Golly, fun at the CPA's office. Getting my personal taxes started, and of course the business.

Usually unevenful for me...Get just enough back from State to pay Federal.

I think I may have everything I need to do my taxes. I’ll dive into it in the coming days.

Saturday would be a good day.

Yes! Thanks Pete!

Busy morning for me. I had to get three items ready to go to the mail and walk to my mail box. Phew.

I wore myself out at work today. Two emails and one phone call. I'm done. Send me the money.

Triple Saturday coming up. Even supposed to be warm, for here. Tropical for Pete.

Maybe I'll get some work done onthe car. Need to finish mounting the dash so I can mount the seats so I can replace the roll bar so I can...

Would be thrilled if I could do any of the projects around here requiring physical ability. Couldn't even replace the florescent tubes in my kitchine fixtures...Thanks Glen.

One of my physical therapy exercises is to stand on a 3 inch thick foam pad for 60 seconds without taking a step or grabbing a bar to keep from falling over.
But hey, after a week, if I stand up from sitting too fast and start to fall forward, I catch myself by putting weight on my toes instead of stepping forward.
Still a fall risk though.

At least there is progress!

This spring I think the lights in the outside garage will get replaced with LED of some sort. Probably hanging shop lights.

I’m still planning on installing LED lights in the ceiling of my garage. I just haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe on Saturday. :cool:

The light fixtures outside my garage and next to front door are dusk to daylight and have LED bulbs.

Was planning to put them on timered switches that would only give them electricy from 5pm to 12:30 so they would only come on from dusk to 12:30. The led bulbs burn so little watts the switches would take 3 years to pay for themselves in savings. So I just let them stay on till daylight.

Replace the fixtures and all bulb to get my electric bill as low as possible.
Got it down so much that replacing my windows with more energy efficient windows would take 8 years to pay for themselve in savings.

Interesting note:
The LED lights don't seem to attract bugs like regular bulbs. Since I changed to LEDs there are no frogs on my front porch or near the garage door lights.

We have a street light paid for my the city or whoever, not us, just past our driveway. That lights up the side of the house, and we have garden lights on a timer for the front. The back is mostly dark unless I flip a switch. The surveillance cameras are all infrared so they can see around in the virtual dark. Our back yard is far from real dark.

We only turn on the porch light is we are expecting visitors after dark, and as a curmudgeon they better better call first or get an unfriendly reception.

Have a neightborhood security light in my front yard near the curb close to my drive. Really don't need garage lights. Have a tree between the light and my front door so like the porch light next to the front door.

The house also came with a security light in the back corner of my yard. It costs $17 a month. Turned it off once and 2 neighbors each paid for 6 months to turn it back on. Two other neighbors had me block the light from reaching their back yards (bedroom windows). It's not real bright there are trees in my back yard. Just a little more than a full moon's worth of light.

One of the project we flew the other day was the University where my wife used to work. It is located of course in the suburb of OKC that surrounds the university. So to cover the properties that the university owns we fly a wide area. It is interesting to double check the final orthophoto mosaic and see all sorts of buildings that I know and have been inside. From my pharmacist to the FedEx office and favorite restaurants are in the image.

The overall mosaic is made of 390 individual images, all blended together to make one seamless image. Mostly is all works like it should, but some building look like a gravity anomaly hit them and partially melted the side of the building. So I get to tweak the image in the mapping program and tell is a human says use this frame to build the image and not that one. It is cool to see it go from a way messed up building, to normal. It is tedious but just part of the job. Dang boss is gonna yell at me if I don't get back to work.

Google maps used to show my house a block away from where it actually sits. With the accuracy of missiles, thought that meant my house was safe from attack. But now it is accurate so no longer enjoy that small amount of anonymity. At least satellite view does not show my car in the drive, and the street view does no show my garage door open and the cars sitting in it with tags showing. They both used to show my cars. Evidently the old street view recorder caught my address with both vehicles in the garage and the door was wide open.

Google Earth will for show anyone's house, and address. It is real easy to use that address, and go to the county web site and look up public information. It will have the owners name and a floor plan, plus the taxes paid or unpaid.

It is all public information.

Our new imagery is way higher resolution that Google Earth has. Since it is of a university, there are students walking around all over the place. I can't tell who it is, but the shadows tell me if they are wearing a backpack or not. You can imagine the size of a human from right above them is the width of the shoulders and unless they are really fat, the top view of a human is very small.

Yep. but it used to have my 928 in the driveway, and the street view showed my garage door open with both of my Porsches parked in the garage and you could plainly see both tags. Wanted them to have to work a little harder than pulling up my address and changing to street view. Even though I know that is all really just public information.

The camera manufacturer we work with is working on a camera system for doing the street view type of image capture. It has 6 cameras with overlap pointing in a 360 view with wide angle lenses, and little 20 mega pixel cameras. It produces a lot of images to and stores them on an hard drive on a laptop in the car. The software, does what Google and Bing do, blur the faces of people, and blur the tag numbers of cars or personal type of information. It has pretty wide angle lenses, and it may show a house just fine, you can't zoom in enough to really see detail.

The Google Earth street view of my house currently was shot days after the ice storm when we had to have a tree in the back yard cut down. All the branches and limbs are stacked on the front front of the house next to the curb. Not a great view of the place. It looks pretty trashy. The city came by and picked it all up for free. Well, not really free, since we pay for trash and water and sewer service. Just no additional charges.