We definitely want to go see some fireworks this Fourth of July. It sounds like there is an opportunity rich environment; there are fireworks, in Fuquay Varina, Garner, Lillington, and I have been trying to think of what we can do to fill out the weekend. We have been invited to a get-together on Friday. I have been checking on museums and the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh will definitely be open over the whole weekend. I think the kids and I should give Lorena a break and barbeque up some ribs, make some coleslaw, and maybe try to make some of our own ice cream. We really need to go to the Holly Springs Library to turn in our books and get some new ones–we found that our friends Jim and Madelaine Melton live just a couple of blocks from the library, so we might stop in and bring them some homemade bread or something like that, too. We are definitely going to need to get some

As for the volcano camera, we are still making good progress. I am writing up a cross-platform application in Python that will connect to and control the volcano camera computer from either a Windows or a Linux laptop. We are making some minor modifications to the GPS so we can hook it up properly and the camera is now up and working, too. We have to swap our camera out for a triggered version so we can trigger the capture from the GPS pulse-per-second signal, but that is a fairly trivial change. We have been ticking the problems off one by one to the point where now all we have is a couple more items and a fairly large application programming task.