We had heavy rain off and on overnight and woke this morning to steady showers so I decided to delay doing the laundry until later in the day. After making the morning coffee, which serves as Linda’s alarm clock, I finished my blog post for yesterday and updated the BCM page of our website while Linda concentrated on her counted cross-stitch project. The amount of time that goes into a handcraft project like this is considerable, but she enjoys it and actually finds it relaxing. The recipient of this effort will be our 14 month old grand-daughter (and her parents) who took her first unassisted steps yesterday. Her parents captured it on a cell phone camera and sent it to us. Although Linda is not looking forward to returning to S. E. Michigan weather, she is eager to see Madeline and wants to have her cross-stitch project finished, or close enough to done that she can finish it while she is home.
Our BCM website page has a reverse chronological listing of all the issues of Bus Conversions Magazine that contain articles I have written. Today I added the listings for the January and February 2014 issues, including the Special Edition of the January issue that BCM produced for distribution via the Great Lakes Area Motorcoach Association (GLAMA) newsletter. The January issue cover story was my article on the GLAMARAMA 2013 rally back in September 2013 at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds in Goshen, Indiana. The February issue cover story was my article on the Arcadia Bus Rally 2014 that was held at the Turner Agri-Civic Center in Arcadia, Florida December 29 – 31, 2013. I posted extensively about these two rallies and those posts are still available in the blog archive.
Bus Conversions Magazine is continuing to evolve under the ownership of publisher Gary Hall and editor Mike Sullivan. Starting with the January 2014 issue the digital edition now contains additional content and features not found in the print edition. Although Gary hopes/plans to expand the print edition, he needs more subscribers and advertisers to justify the added printing and mailing costs. The digital edition, however, now features additional photographs and clickable advertisements with plans to add links to videos and other content as it becomes available. Starting with the February issue, the digital edition is now available in Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) versions as PDF files. The difference between the SD and HD versions is the resolution of the photographs, which the reader can click to enlarge. Both versions are available to online subscribers for download but only the SD version is available as an e-mail attachment; the HD version must be downloaded from the BCM website.
In the afternoon I updated the accounting records and roster for our FMCA Freethinkers chapter and did a small load of laundry. I heard some additional complaints about the park Wi-Fi. We can connect and log in with our individual devices and we can connect our WiFiRanger, but not log in. The technician told me a few weeks ago he had not done anything to specifically block a device like a WiFiRanger (booster/repeater) but I suspect he has. An e-mail to WiFiRanger is in order to see if they are aware of any way a Wi-Fi system could detect that their device is something other than just another Wi-Fi client.
We had an Asian soba noodle dish with tofu and scallions dish for dinner that we bought at the Earth Origins market in Gainesville earlier in the week. We finished dinner at 6:30 PM, poured a couple glasses of moscato, and headed over to the fire pit. As seems to be the pattern there were more people than last night, maybe 30 at any given time with a little bit of turnover. Kevin had a good fire going and John brought his guitar. John is recovering from something respiratory and still doesn’t have his singing voice back, so tonight became a sing-along. We met another first-timer WCRVR couple from South Bend, Indiana who owned the KOA there until 2005 and I had a nice chat with the husband about the business of running a campground. A couple from London, Ontario sat down next to Linda and she had a nice chat with the wife. By 9:00 PM the declining heat of the fire wasn’t keeping up with advancing cool of the evening and we retired to our coach for the evening.