Quick whack, migrated, Live ring, green

I am a big fan of the spring time change which allows me to get stuff done after work outside during the week instead of having to stuff it all into the weekend.  Last night I took advantage of the extra time and headed outside to weed whack the property, something that hasn’t been done in well over a month.  Cindy had just mowed the property during the afternoon so capping it off with proper weed whacking left the yard looking nicely manicured and added to my “get stuff done” quota for the day.

Yesterday I managed to complete the migration of my old emails, some dating all the way back to 2000 to my Office 365 email account.  Basically the way I made it work was to configure my local mail client, in my case Outlook 2013 to connect to both my old and new accounts and then move emails/folders between the two accounts.  This should also be able to be accomplished by backing up your old emails to a PST file and then importing it into your new account but for some odd reason the PST export would fail on my old stuff.  Regardless, duf.net email is up and running on Office 365 and all is well.

So you may recall that I have not one but TWO Ring smart doorbells in my household, one at the front door and another on the chicken coop.  Well now down the road I can see the potential for adding a 3rd.  Ring just introduced a new model, the Ring Pro which is smaller, has higher resolution video (1080P vs 720p), 5G wireless band support for faster network connection, and custom motion zones where you can literally draw what areas you want monitored instead of the more vague zones it utilizes now.  The only negative is the device does not have an internal battery so it must be hard wired to power, unlike the current model of Ring.

In addition to the new model, they are introducing a new feature for all Rings where you can click into a live video feed whenever you want, instead of just when someone presses the button or when motion is detected.  It will be a cool way to check in whenever I feel like it. I am a big Ring fan.

Today is St Patricks Day and thanks to the effort of Cindy I actually wore green to work.  Ironically most years I make no effort to wear green on the holiday despite my very Irish name.  It’s actually hard for me to not wear green as it is the color that dominates my shirt collection.  I will however continue my tradition of not drinking any alcohol on a holiday that is all about inebriation.   It’s just the contrarian in me teaming up with my inner hermit.