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Just wrapping up coding for the night… Data bases are so much fun… But, sitting at home and catching up on work and getting stuff done while I wait to find out when I have to go out of town for some interviews is better then being on a Ridge Of Death or a ROD bust. I have to admit the other day was pretty crazy for my crew in the Denver area but then again they are chasing an hour from home and there not spending $3.25 a gallon for gas with 1000 miles to chase.

I did hear back from one place today, it sounds like they want to bring me in but “Budget Issues” is what I was told is the problem right now. But knowing the company, they do run a tight ship and I talked with a buddy in at the network in Atlanta about it and they said that it sounded like the case. If I get it, I get to stay, if not, well, I have yet to renew the lease so I will be going on month to month after next month so I can up and move cross country at a moments notice.

And speaking of cross country, the other option is still on the table since there is the budge issue, I still talking with the other company on the east coast about the other gig and when to fly out to meet with them. I should know more about that later today or tomorrow. But for now, it’s still PHP training time to work on the new setup.
I wish I could show everyone the new setup and the demo pages we put together but no way, not yet, when they are live on the net and fully operational, then I’ll brag but until then, trust me, this stuff is pretty kick ass for the code that we have wrote so far.

While most of the country is now under the ROD or Ridge Of Death, it look’s as if everything is shifting north now with the jet stream. Tomorrow looks interesting with the chances of some severe weather around Minnesota. Last night and early this morning I was out playing with the pop corn storms. Here is some shots I took while taking a break from the SQL training along with one from the other night. The first is from May 8th up in Shoreview, MN.

The following photos are from Dakota County in a nice little spot that I have found that is in the middle of country but yet in the middle of the city…

And this one is pretty cool because of the tech side. This was from my deck this morning as the sun was rising and a storm kicking up. I was leaning half way out of the deck with the camera and tripod arm managed to get a cloud to cloud daylight lightning photograph.

Ok, yes, I stayed up all night again but hey, I got a lot done. With the coding stuff I have been working on, I amd about ready to unleash the new BNVN.com site. I was able to write up some stuff to automate stuff that well, simply put, I’m working smarter, not harder to get the new site up and running without using any other sites like YouTube or Google for the video hosting.

So far so good…

On another note, with things moving along rapidly on the storm front and job front, I never heard back from the local company but I did get things rolling for the interview out in PA next week. I’ll just have to wait and see what happens in the coming days. But right now, learning this coding and this whole other world of computer stuff is just keeping me busy and I’m having the time of my life with it right now.

Well, a little light show started to kick up around the metro last night (its 3:30 in the morning right now…) and it was pretty fun.

I saw on radar where the storms were forming and where I thought they were going and decided to go and scout out a spot I found a few years ago up by Shoreview, MN to get the lightning hitting the towers. Well, the towers did not take a hit but the light show was pretty cool.

I shot about 45 minutes of footage and just dubbed everything in to edit at a later date.

Here are the photos from tonight.

It’s no secret that I’ve been up to something which is why I stayed home from the weekends insane chasing. Well, it is all about the server. I’ve been busting ass trying to get the new Linux machine up and running.

What is it? Made my own youtube for all the BNVN Stringers.WHODA JIGGA

WHAT?yeah, been busting ass learning code and encoding, trans coding, php, sql, decoding, re-coding, c++ encoding Linux fedora crapola to the point where I’m getting sick of it.But, the end result will be something bad ass in a few more weeks.

Well, today was an interesting day. I had two interviews today for a couple of gigs but the one gig that sounded promising was for an out state Sr. photojournalist position. If I get that gig, hello northeast region. It sounds like they were hella interested but for me to move out east it would take a chunk of change.

I’m also looking at the south east area too and I have a couple more gigs I’m working on down in Florida but I won’t hear back from them until next week or the week after. The Florida gig would rock since I have a lot of friends down there and the weather does not suck that bad and I can go scuba diving a lot more then I do up here.

Since today and yesterday were huge outbreak days with hundreds of chasers out there, I stayed home to let my crews go out there and chase. Well, there are a ton of chasers the last time I looked at the tracking stuff with spotternetwork and swiftwx. How many people? 135 people out there right now as I type this up.

But I’m not bummed that I stayed home, I have been working on this other project for the new website and it is coming along pretty slick! The beta server I’m working on is doing some stuff I could have only dreamed of and now I’m making the dreams work! So when this is all said and done, the new BNVN.com site is going to rock!!!

Okay, so it was not in Liquordale, that is just a song I’m listening to right now by The Peelers but it sounded cool.

Here is a Daylight Lightning Photograph, not a vid cap like some losers try to pull off calling it a day light lightning photo but a real daylight lightning photograph with the Nikon D70s.

This was taken near Fairbault MN the other day. I was distracting myself from the real work and studying for the new programming stuff so I figured I would look through the photos. Note the hail shaft and how I stayed OUT of it!!! This was a photo taken with about a Half second exposure at ASA 100 with an F-Stop of F22.
So if you want to try and shoot daylight lightning, that’s how… 🙂

Well, it is 4:30 in the morning and I just got my new beta testing server up and running. This is the new server to get the new website for BNVN back up and running.This has been a real learning process to get up and running. It is the first time I setup a server on my own and have it up and running.

This is going to be my May project since I’m not liking the weather setup and my gut forecast shows that the gas prices are going to go through the roof as the price of footage for news is worthless as people are giving their stuff away just to get their names on TV. I know, it is pretty insane to give footage away when the networks have a ton of money for footage and are laughing their ass off as people give there footage away just to get their name on tv.

So with the hurricane documentary done and out there for people to beta view and let them review it, I’m pretty bored and looking for something to do now that I’m well on my way with the scripting setup on the beta server. 

I’m just focusing on the site editing and getting that up and running with the beta server. The beta server is going be the home server before I get the new web server up and running. I’m making the beta server script and automate everything for the new setup. Since all the footage catalogs are already made, I just need to time code the footage then trans code. The trans coding is going to be the automated scripting.
So my job now is press enter for the most part and walk away. Bored bored bored but it needs to be done.

Okay it was not a long dive and the water was a little cold but I got in my first dive at Calhoun today. I was able to get down to 49 feet and the visibility was pretty good.