Hey Janice,

What is it with hurricanes named Bertha?! They have an attitude! I checked that link and at least this Bertha won’t hit the US like the previous one did. I just hope it leaves Bermuda alone. Interesting information from Dr. Masters. Thanks for sharing!

Margie

Hey Janice,

Since no one else has said anything on this thread, I thought I’d write again. Aren’t you thrilled?! I just had to boast of my success at finally submitting my fireworks picture. I did nothing different than I have been doing, so I don’t know what’s going on. Technology–isn’t it wonderful?! I had to scan the photo because it’s a few years old and I took it with my 35mm camera. It’s one of the coolest fireworks photos I’ve taken, which are really tricky to photograph.

I hope you get a good rest this evening since you had such an early start this morning. Bertha’s been keeping you busy but it looks like she’ll be history soon. I hope we won’t have to talk about another hurricane for a long time, but you never know with this crazy weather.

Take care,
Margie

I hope we see a Hurricane named Brad very soon

I saw on my local news that fireworks calls during the weekend were down significantly since last year. I guess people arent celebrating that much, at least where i live, or maybe they are leaving it to the professionals.

Hmmmmm?? A dirigible named Hindenburg. A ship named Titanic. A Hurricane named Brad. Yep, It sings!!

I have one in 2011. Hurricane Don will stagger around the Atlantic for awhile before slamming right into Hyannisport and blowing the Kennedy Compound off the face of the earth! (hahaha) A man can dream can’t he?

NOAA still looks pretty busy across the street. They always have people working late during these kinds of things!

Hi Margie and Brad! Hope you are doing well today! I survived “death by powerpoint” today!

Hey Don,

I’m glad you survived “death by PowerPoint” today! This evening a couple of my friends from church are coming over and I’m going to help them with a PowerPoint presentation. I’m the official “PowerPoint Queen” at my church and I put presentations together for the groups that go on mission trips. A group just returned from a trip to Kentucky and I’ll be the one scanning all their pictures to put into a presentation. I hope my pastor was exaggerating when he said they had about a thousand pictures! I’ve also done PowerPoint presentation using music–I play the music separately since it violates copyright to put it into a presentation. My biggest challenge is my laptop I bought at the end of last year. I bought a laptop with Windows Vista and Office 2007 and they are totally different from the versions I’ve used in the past. I don’t know if you’ve used Office 2007, but it is so different that I’m trying to figure out how it all works! I only use my laptop for presentations so I don’t use it too often. Vista is completely different too so I spend a lot of time searching for things! It’s too complicated for this old brain of mine!

I did some research and the closest hurricane I could find to my name was Hurricane Maggie. It was the strongest storm in the Pacific in 1974, but it never threatened land. I like that! I didn’t see any evidence that there ever was a Hurricane Brad–sorry Brad!

Have a great evening.

Margie

Yeah Margie, they don’t make the computer programs very much alike when they change them do they? We have XP here at work and will move up to Vista. What a scam they have going! It took us a couple of years to work the bugs out of XP so I can only imagine what Vista will do to us!

Oh, my Hurricane will stagger around the Atlantic only making landfall to pick up beer before heading to the Kennedy place. After that, it will quietly retire to the Maritimes to settle down and go fishing.

Janice! Did your husband make a lot of calls on the 4th to visit people who blew off parts of their bodies doing fireworks or did they have a fairly quiet night? My friends that are firemen have areas with grass fields and woods so they were fairly busy out west on that night.

Hey Don,

I have a challenge for you. Actually, it’s a challenge I just had, but since you survived your “death by PowerPoint” today, I thought I’d share it with you. Imagine this: My friends came over to go through their mission trip pictures, some of which were on a laptop computer. I figured we could just use my flash drive to transfer the pictures–no problem. Wrong–big problem! Not only did the laptop have Vista, but there was another twist. Our church has a sister church in Puebla, Mexico and the pastor’s daughter is visiting Cumberland during the summer and it was her laptop. Guess what language they speak in Mexico? Now imagine trying to not only figuring out Vista, but figuring it out in Spanish! The whole computer was in Spanish. Thankfully, I know a little Spanish and I was able to figure most of it out and what I couldn’t figure out, my friend Heather helped with because she can speak Spanish. Heather was rather impressed with not only my technical skills, but my technical skills in Spanish! It made for an interesting adventure! At least the rest of the project will be in English so I don’t have to overload my brain. It can only take so much!

Have a great evening.

Margie

Hey Don-

Looks like you are well on your way to giving lectures in college universities and schools. Those power point programs will come in handy

Don-

I guess your firefighter friends got a ton of calls during the 4th of July, am i correct? Where i live, the number of calls dramatically decreased from last year. I wonder if its because of the all professional celebrations around my town? Plus there is a law going into effect banning the use of all fireworks during New Years and 4th of July. I dont know if its going to pass.

Did anyone hear about a new Mike Huckabee pilot show is in the works for FoxNews? No word on when it will start.

I went to this site, very informing! Thanks for giving the link!