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4/29/06 I finished the uploading of all the video to the new server for the on line video catalog. Almost 400 videos going on line soon. Lots of work yet to be done but there going live in the next few weeks.

4/28/06 Out shooting video for The Weather Channel.

4/27/06 Out shooting video for The Weather Channel.

4/22/06 Working on the coding and I got the new toy today. I got my new PD-170 Underwater Camera setup. This thing is so cool but when it is fully loaded it weights over 40 Pounds. I guess it won’t blow around in the hurricanes. Now I’m just like a little kid the week before Christmas because I want to go scuba diving in the lakes but their still too cold for anyone that would want to go with me.

4/21/06 Today I’m working on the coding for the new site. Only a few more gigs left to sort out. I want to have everything working by next Thursday night / Friday morning.

4/20/06 Today I was out playing weather channel photographer again. The slow moving low that dumped over 6 feet of snow in parts of South Dakota is moving over the Minneapolis area and is popping up some showers and cold air funnels.

4/19/2006 Took a break this afternoon to play in the scuba diving pool up at Going Under dive shop. Just needed a break from all the work and when I get to go diving, I get away from the cell phone. It was pretty cool to float upside down and just relax in the pool.

4/18/06 While I thought it was going to be a nice day off and it was until 5pm. I was out walking around Lake Nokomis while the computers at home were on auto pilot. I noticed some towers going up off in the distance and turned off the music on my Pocket PC and looked at the radar. Wow, we got storms and we were not suppose to have any today. A little faster walk back to my Jeep and I was back out storm chasing. The storms were not that great but it was still cool to go out and see something very close to home with the gas prices so damn high.

4/16/2006 Happy Easter. Today was pretty mellow. I did start the review on the last of the video catalog from the footage over the winter. I am totally caught up again with all the tapes. I think I wore out my DV Cam Deck with all the tapes I have been reviewing. I did start the walks up that I have been planning to do. Minneapolis is the City of Lakes and now that the weather is nice out all the time, I’m spending more and more time at the lakes to walk around the lakes and just relax. Now if they can just warm up so I can go scuba diving!

4/15/2006 I skipped storm chasing this weekend to stay home and have a normal weekend off. The computers are still running on auto pilot to get ready for the new site. Man, this is just going to be huge.

4/13/2006 While the computers at home were working on autopilot feeding stuff up to my server, I took off to go chasing in Iowa. I got on the storms south east of Waterloo Iowa and got on the southern most cells in the better dew points. The storms really got going at sunset and produced a very large tornado in Iowa City, Iowa. While talking to the news desk, they told me that someone died in this storm. 2006 is off to a very tragic tornado season and it is not even the month of May. Here are some vid caps of the dash camera footage of the Iowa City, Iowa tornado video.

4/12/2006 Busy getting videos ready for the new site. It is all hurry up then wait.

4/10/2006 Out playing weather channel photographer today for the morning show. Wow, we went from winter to summer in Minneapolis in a couple of weeks. This afternoon it was 80F at my home on the south side of town.

4/8/2006 I was at Conus yesterday talking to my agent Chris and he has been sick with the Flu. Well, guess who started coming down with it… Taking the weekend off to rest to fight off the funk.

4/6/2006 Ok still alive. I have been very busy for the last two weeks. Between shooting video for The Weather Channel, storm chasing, and finishing up all the video’s for the site, it has been insane.

Today I was in Kansas and caught the Washington County – Hanover Kansas Tornado. The video is all over the cable news networks tonight and should be all over them tomorrow as well.

After I get some sleep, I will post the video. Just got home and just chased for 24 hours from Minneapolis to Kansas and back to Minneapolis, I need some sleep.

4/2/2006 – Out shooting for TWC this morning.

3/27/2006 Up early this morning shooting for TWC and the weather is pretty nice out.  The snow is almost gone here in Minneapolis, MN and I can’t wait to test out the new scuba gear.

3/26/2006 Out shooting for TWC today.  Been working on web stuff but back out in the mix today.  Today is nice and warm out so it’s nice to get out in the warm weather after a long winter.

3/17/2006 Yesterday was a winter storm, today it was pretty nice out. I was back out shooting for The Weather Channel again today.

Also while reviewing yesterdays video, I got some great footage of near mishap at the Minneapolis International Airport. A Northwest Airlines flight was trying to take off as an American Airlines flight was trying to land. Nothing serious happened but I got footage of the United Airlines flight having to do a go around. It is not every day you get to see a 757 at about 200 feet having to go full throttle and go around in the middle of a major snow storm.

3/16/2006 Today was another major snow event in the Twin Cities. I was out playing Weather Channel Photographer again today, even though I have been sick for a couple days. Not sure if it is a cold or allergies. But I got in a couple video packages for them of the people in the snow and people stuck in the ditch.

Today was a very busy day. I was out shooting for The Weather Channel this morning and this afternoon. We got hit with over a foot of snow at my place in Burnsville and the average area snowfall was about a foot, some more, some less.

3/11/2006 Back home and working on getting several projects caught up and out of the way. I did get my photographs back from the lab this afternoon from the disposable underwater camera. Click on the thumbnail images to view the larger files of the Crystal River Manatees Scuba trip.

3/10/2006 I am on my way home from Florida this evening to get back to work due to a very active weather pattern taking shape for this weekend and next week in the upper Midwest. I wanted to stay and go diving some more but I have to wait 24 hour’s after my last dive before I can fly home so I decided to head back now or miss the whole weather show up north.

I finished up my scuba tests today and got my license to have fun. After I got done at Scuba Quest today I went and and hung out with Brian this afternoon and got some more images of the dive from him yesterday. His video of the dive is just sweet. He got the Manatees to swim right by him a couple of times as they were swimming around the three sisters area. Here are a few more photographs he took of me goofing off.

This morning before I went to go and take my open water exam for my scuba diving, I was on the Joe Madison show, The Black Eagle at www.JoeMadison.com . I had a great time on his national radio show which is on in DC as well as XM Satellite Radio.

It was great to be able to get my idea out about the National Hurricane Center cone of the strike path and the ban on sale of alcohol. It is pretty simple, if your area is in the cone of the path of the storm track, the sale of alcohol should be banned and a mandatory evacuation of all non residents. Katrina did a lot to wake people up but it only takes a few more near misses for people to become complacent.

Then, after the morning radio interview, it was off to Crystal River Florida. This place is great!!! I was scuba diving with some Manatees today and just had a blast. Got down to 50 feet on my second dive and got to the entrance of one of the caves. I could not go in because I am not trained for cave diving yet but it was a blast diving with my buddy Brian and Eric from Scuba Quest in Sarasota. Here is a video capture that Brian took of me, I am totally hooked on Scuba diving now.

I’m in Florida and taking care of another dream and bucket list item, getting my scuba diving training. So much fun.