After three years, I have added another feature to my Weather Station reporting templates - National Weather Service Forecasts.

The operation was a success, and the patient still lives!

Or in better terms, the refurbishment project has been successfully completed, and the PC is once again a usable system.

Here is Part 2 of my Refurbishment Project of a former HTPC system that had been sitting mostly disassembled since early 2016.  The budget for this project is $50.  Here, we go through the initial re-assembly of the system and find some more problems that have to be dealt with.

Looking through my assorted collection of computer equipment, I have decided on a project.  I will be refurbishing my old Home Theater PC that I originally built in 2009.  This system has had some scavenging done over the years since its retirement, so I may have to dig up or purchase some components.  However, as I have a Roku device and a media server, this older PC will not be used as a HTPC, but either as a general purpose system or maybe as a physical Active Directory Server.  My budget for this project is about $50.

While I have been using computers in general for a long time, and have been using Android phones and tablets, there I am still having to learn things with my Chromebook.

I just acquired my first Chromebook. Having been wrapped up in the Microsoft world since MS-DOS 3.1, and only really deviating for mobile devices (cell phone and tablet), it’s interesting going to a Chromebook.

As with several hobbies, my father got me interested in running a Personal Weather Station (or PWS).  At first, I used second-hand hardware for this, but ran into issues.  Most of the issues I had were communications between the base station and the sensors.  So I swapped out with another second-hand system.  This one was relatively stable with the communications, but developed an issue with the humidity sensor.  After a couple months, it too developed communication issues.  Fresh batteries in the sensors and base station did not resolve the issue, so I began looking for a new weather station.  This time, I decided to purchase a brand new weather station.