OutdoorsMI Cam

It is back! Check it out in the 'Links' section on the right hand side of the page. It currently is a pretty old camera running it...so the res is pretty bad. However, now that I have it back up, I should get some motivation to upgrade. We will see based on the number of viewers I get. It does not show much...but should at least give an idea of whether it is snowing or not! ;)

Page Updates

I just added a link to our Facebook page to the right side of the screen. Check it out! I also added the twitter feed which will have the short versions of the Facebook posts...so this has finally become the one stop shop for OutdoorsMI!

I am still trying to get motivated to move everything over to the domain...but I believe before I start I am going to change hosts. No sense in paying when I have people in the biz that have offered to help me out for free! :) Or maybe I will host it myself? Who knows...I hate the thought of paying for business internet to get static IPs...but I would get bandwidth priority and faster speeds than I do now. Interesting concept!

-Derek

"Here I am...

and I don't have much to say." Without a winter ride...my excitement about what a good season to ride and blog it would be has dwindled greatly. I really do not have much exciting to talk about.

We did get a pretty good snow storm in our neck of the woods last week. On Friday we received 10-11 inches of new snow at our house. So much snow that the snowblower had a bit of a hard time keeping up! But the little guy pulled through for me...and with a few tweaks of the auger clutch cable I think it will be in good shape. Basically I have just sat here and watched the snow pack down though...I have not had much time to get out and about. Work has kept me fairly busy the last couple weeks.

We just installed a new phone system at work...a Cisco Unified Call Manager with contact center. Pretty fun stuff...a bit improvement over where we were a few days ago. No more calls dropping, no more barged calls, and no more small nuisances. That is over now so I took a few hours off today...just to hang out and do nothing. I was thinking we would go somewhere...maybe even get the four wheeler out...but that did not happen. It probably will not happen at this point. ;)

In other news...I did hear from the insurance company today that they are finalizing the details of my insurance claim. The first round of repairs is done...they replaced the ski, spring, A-arms, some other bars and things that matter I suppose, just to discover that the frame was in fact bent. The first repairs were fairly pricey...the second repair estimate just about made me vomit. I should know more in the next few days...but no Moosejaw for me. :(

That about sums up the last couple weeks...working and waiting for sled news. ;) So I will end it here. I hope anyone that goes out on the Moosejaw has a great time!

-Derek