Snow in Dothan

The weatherman was right about today's forecast - snow flurries. Okay - it wasn't a lot of snow and it didn't "stick", but it WAS snow. We are still in Dothan, AL and will probably be here until mid-April or so.

We got up this morning to snow flurries - we put our coats on and went out to take photos of the snow. Well, we hadn't used our camera in quite a while and the battery was dead and so was the extra battery! Tinker didn't seem to be too impressed about the snow (he might have if there had been any on the ground). The first thing we did when we came back in was to charge the camera batteries.

About 3:30 this afternoon we got some more snow flurries and were able to get a movie of it - still no accumulation. You can click on the link above and it will take you to our snow movies.

Last Friday was like Christmas around here. We had ordered from 3gstore.com a Cradlepoint CTR500 mobile router to use with our Verizon mobile modem and it came on Friday. We have 2 laptops and only 1 of us could be on the internet at a time. After installing and connecting the router and plugging in our Verizon modem, we both were able to share the internet connection on each laptop. We were concerned that we would see a slowdown in the speed of our internet connection, but we haven't noticed any.

One of the local retailers here had advertised a Western Digital 500GB external hard drive for $80. I checked prices on the internet and found out that I could get a 1TB (1000GB) external hard drive from Dell for only $25 more! Such a deal - we couldn't pass it up. We already have a 200GB external hard drive that we use for backup. The new hard drive also came last Friday.

We are rapidly running out of space on one of our laptops (it has 64GB) and I need to transfer some files and photos off to another drive. We've decided to use the 200GB drive to store our photos and files that we take off of the laptops and use the 1TB drive for backup of both laptops and the 200GB hard drive. We could have gotten a larger hard drive for the laptop, but I hate having to transfer everything over to a new drive.