As my cute, new little widget over there on the right shows, I’ve got several chase days lined up starting tomorrow.  Spent most of the afternoon yesterday getting the ride ready to rock.  She’s been dormant since returning from Illinois, so almost two weeks.  Actually managed to keep the driving limited to a single full tank of gas during that stretch, nice cause the 87 octane here is the mid-grade, so it’s $4+ right now here in northern Colorado without fuel points chipping away at some of that.  Fortunately the 87 octane becomes regular unleaded across the border, so that’ll…

Remember this?  Nah, probably not… this was a feature in my older sites where I would change the icon site-wide to reflect my chase potential, which was often updated on a per-day basis… well, if you look over to the right side of the screen, you notice there’s a 10-Day chase outlook.  Inspired by the old one-icon look, I created a much more modern version that shows my next 10 days chasing potential.  I’ve been stewing over such an idea for a while, but didn’t want to simply write a code to switch an icon, and this was the version…

YAY!  Success!  Not sure what the turn-around time would’ve been for a straight-up repair, but my work-around to just return the original purchase back to B&H paid off; certainly faster than the alternate, which would’ve seen me send the camera back on MONDAY, and likely still would be in transit back to Nikon, so the fact that I have the new body in hand today (Thursday), and it is NOT part of the recall, means that I absolutely made the right call.  I feel a bit bad, cause most photogs would agree, B&H is one of the best places to…

Welp, the YouTube launch happens on Friday!  At 6:30pm, the first NEW video of the NEW rebrand premieres!  It’ll be the first time ever online I have detailed out my first chase and first tornado all the way back in 1997.  It was the chase/tornado that started this whole thing I’ve been doing for the last 30 seasons.  I poured a lot of time and ‘research’ into this; and by research, I mean digging through old tubs and boxes to find everything I still had in existence from that era.  That includes an old high school “time capsule” video I…

If you’ve followed me for a long period of time, you know I compare chase season to football season; with March being the pre-season chsaes, April through June the regular season, the summer into early fall the post-season, and the winter the off-season.  If you believe the long-range models, the regular season may have a formidable kickoff.  Still 7-10 days out, but the general consensus among the longer-range models indicates a pattern change that’ll bump us from this stagnate, hot pattern we’re currently in.  There’s a small area outlooked for this coming Thursday, but right now that’s got all the…

Not exactly the news I wanted to start my week with, but alas, so it goes.  Nikon sent out this advisory earlier this week, and wouldn’t you know it, my month-old Nikon Z6 III was part of the advisory.  When I called Nikon to inquiry about turn-around time, not only did they NOT have that info (depends on how many repairs they get), they were not even beginning the return process until this coming Monday, basically a whole week before I could send it back.  Fortunately, as fortunate can be in this situation, I was within my return window at…