The Life and Times of Captain D and his Pretty First Mate

  My new trusty cruiser bike, just add your own horsepower. Nothing like my twenty-something speed mountain bike I had in Nevada, but everything is flat around this part of the country.  10 mph is about what it will comfortably do, more in a pinch. With the help of my iPhone, it can give me just about any information I'd like about my travels, even linear heat maps. The travel shown in green is going with the wind, a stiff breeze from the south, which caused more slowing heading back into the teeth of the wind (yellow). The touch of orange is me wiggling through the gate arms at the side entrance to the community, which allows just enough room to squeeze through on a bike.

 I had been wanting to install a weather station at our home in Tennessee for a few years but placed one here in sunny Florida.  I also wanted a station that could be seen while away, and there were a few options.  I chose an Ambient Weather WS-2000, which has an outdoor station and a small internal color screen that acts as a server for the distribution of data to a few weather services (Ambient Weather and Weather Underground).   Ambient Weather The outdoor station sits in the shadow of the house for northern winds, so it won't get all the gusting and such from some cold weather fronts, but other than that, it's been doing well!