BMN Thank you for registering at my new web site

[Boss]

rd 2008

Good Morning

Thank you all for signing up at the http://outfitnm.com

We now have 124 people on the BMN mailing list, of this 14 people signed on to my website. This is very good for one day, again thank you. I suspect that of the 124 people on this list about half wouldn't notice if I up and quit writing tomorrow. It is a boost to my ego to have 124 people on my list, but it would even be better if I knew the BMN was treated as something other than spam by so many people. I suppose that this is another BMN challenge. If the newsletter interests you, now is the time to act. Get on the website sign up, you don't need to subscribe to the newsletter yet, wait until we get enough people setup and then I will notify everyone that the preferred distribution method is going to change from what it is now to the new and improved web based and interactive newsletter. For the time being I will continue to create this newsletter in Open Office and copy to Mozilla Thunderbird, and post from brodgers@desertgate.com. Be forewarned, this is a terribly convoluted process compared to creating the newsletter on the website to begin with, and letting it (the site) post it automatically. For one thing my constant battle with Mozilla losing images will be a thing of the past. This alone will make my life better. One last note for those who don't want the hassle of going to my web site. You only need to go there once and sign up, the newsletter will still be sent to your inbox as it always has. You may wish to respond in the same way you've done in the past, that is fine. You will be able to keep everything thing the way it is. Registering at the site will let me make the move to web posting, from email posting.

I'm trying my darnedest to make outfitnm.com a web site you will want to visit. I removed all the computer related content. That ought to make the pages better, eh? I will revamp the Las Tusas Ranch pages and incorporate them into the new format, as well as the WiFi pages from the old site. New are the Renewable Energy topics such as biodiesel, Wind and Solar power. Probably of more interest to this group is the brand new Las Tusas Campo pages. I want to link the Tusas party pages to the forum and photo gallery side, so everyone can send in their pictures and text of past Tusas Camps. I think this section will blossom with your help. Go, please, and take a look at the pictures I have already and let me know what you think. I have so many pictures I can't choose which ones to post. Inevitably there will be several section for different Tusas Years so it doesn't take too long to download the pages. Either way it is an memorable blast from the past browsing through the images of past Tusas camps. I've not tried the gallery section of the web site, but the idea is that all of you can post images there. It is the same package we're using to post images to the main web site. It works very well. There are icons for uploading images from your PC and boxes for posting image URLs for web based images. I've used them both and the work great.

There are so many things these new software packages do, I can't fathom it all right at this moment. I'm enjoying figuring it out a little at a time, though. Thank you Matt and Adam for setting this up so well a moron like me can figure it out. This is exactly what I asked them for folks. I don't have time to learn new software. I'm too busy playing Mister Renewable Energies.

Go forth and be merry

I see around thirty elk in yonder field this morning. So nice to be alive here and now.

Brian Rodgers

P.S. Another reason I want to switch to web send mail: Desertgate's email server lost the BMN again this morning.

[Boss]

This is this morning's newsletter. I'll attach it as a comment as it is an extension of yesterday's letter.

As of 4:00pm I have managed to get 50 of the 124 BMN (Brian's Morning Newsletter) subscribers to register on my newly revamped website in preparation for the transition to a web based newsletter. Not bad for a two day effort.

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January 24th 2008

Good Morning

Golly Gee, I am beside myself this morning. I stayed up late tweaking the new web pages with Adam. I haven't had this much fun since I can't remember when. Where to begin? I thank all of you that took the time to register at http://outfitnm.com yesterday and last night. There are twenty eight of us signed up on the site as of this morning. This means the world to me. Every now and then I get a doubt, not often mind you, but I suppose everyone does, so I dismiss the negative emotions as quickly as I can. But this..., this support is unfathomably amazing. I am truly grateful. I will make every effort to live up to your expectations. The forum: Last night Adam added topics, of course you are welcome to suggest others. To start us off we have Renewable Energies/ Biodiesel, Solar, Wind Power, Forest work/Tusas forests, and one I'm sure will be a favorite: Tusas Campo/RSVP... sort of.

Boy howdy, this is more fun than a bus full of cheerleaders! I am like a king, again ruler of the land hence called the Outfit. Seriously, the web site is everything I hoped for and more. At some point I will figure out how to make the site work for our family and bring in some much needed income, but for now it will remain an information exchange. An added bonus is the BMN can be posted from the web site, reducing the strain on my email software here at the ranch. The web site has a newsletter creator called Letterman, although I am not using it to create the newsletter yet, it looks pretty good. I don't get the on-the-fly spell checking like I do with Open Office, and this kid needs all the help I can get. So for now I'll stick to doing it the old way.

Enough people have responded to my request to register on my site that I'll soon be able to make the transition to the web-send newsletter. Soon I'll send the BMN out with a requirement to respond or be dropped from the mailing list. I am sorry to lose touch with people, but I shouldn't be sending the BMN to people who do not want it anyway. It may be that I have already lost touch with them. I mean what do you call it when we don't correspond? In the meantime I'll need to juggle the two mailing lists and make sure I don't get any of you on both lists. I am on both and the redundancy is annoying. I get the newsletter from my email list  and then it comes in again from the web site. Not a problem, all I need to do is remove my name from the BMN mailing list and I'll continue to receive the newsletter from the site. This is what I will begin to do for all those who registered,

Let me quickly describe the web site and available pages at http://outfitnm.com.

    * Home Home page We made all of the pages full width fr displaying images

    * About Brian My web biography

    * Contact Send me an email

    * Tusas Campo Pages dedicated to 35 years of Tusas Camps

          o Tusas Camps past

    * More Tusas images

    * Still more Tusas Images

    * Forum New Fireboard forum. Please take part in the discussions

    * Newsletter Brian's Morning Newsletter as it is sent out to those who wish to subscribe on-line

    * Gallery This is where you upload your pictures. Your own personal gallery should have been creates when you registered

    * Renewables My sustainable or renewable energy projects

    * Biodiesel My biodiesel processor (1800 gallons homemade fuel to date)

    * Forestry lots of forest management information found here

                + More on Forestry

    * Boundary Fences Henry's page from Lastusas.com

    * Management Brian's forest management page

    * Citizens and Logging

    * City Slickers Henry's page from Lastusas.com

    * Homestead

    * Logging Sacramento

          o Wind Power

    * OtherPower Wind Turbine workshop Our trip to Colorado & workshop.

    * Axial Flux Wind turbine

    * Wind turbines

    * WiFi Wireless Internet site. See my remote solar powered Wifi relay tower.

    * NMSynergy I promote the 2008 NM Synergy Fest here.

          o NMSEA Synergy Fest 2008

Please, if you haven't registered at http://outfitnm.com do so ASAP. The emailing list from my home is ending. If you do not register we may lose touch.

Sorry,  I keep repeating this, I want to make sure the occasional reader sees this notice.

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Note:

For this group (fieldlines) you may also register if you like what you see on my site

Sincerely,

[JW]

"I suspect that of the 124 people on this list about half wouldn't notice if I up and quit writing tomorrow."

"It is a boost to my ego to have 124 people on my list, but it would even be better if I knew the BMN was treated as something other than spam by so many people."

^damn, thats so well written, I just dont know what to say, seriously. JW^

"For one thing my constant battle with Mozilla losing images will be a thing of the past."

^Ummmmmm hmmmmmmm         JW^

"The emailing list from my home is ending. If you do not register we may lose touch."

You see, that most likely wont happen, unless your prepared- 'to drop some sort of neutron bob" on us....

)) )) ))

JW

[Volvo farmer]

Just curious. Why the registration requirement? I went over to your site today and saw several of your morning newsletters on a list that I could click on and read if I wanted. I rather liked that. I don't want a newsletter in my inbox every morning, but I might like to drop by Brian's site occasionally and read a few newsletters to see what he's been up to lately.

I can understand a registration requirement if I wanted to post replies but would a person have to register if he just wanted to read a few newsletters once in a while?

[Boss]

Absolutely not

Feel free to just drop in.

With the footnote, I was being polite to this group. I assume most people here do not

know what I am talking about with my newsletter going public.

Here is the deal with that, I think.

I'd like to believe I'm ready for a broader group of people to correspond with. I've basically had a private(captive)audience reading my writing for the last eight years.

Truth is I crave more interaction with the direction I'm heading with sustainable lifestyles, and renewable energy research. I like this group a lot and if you are not too busy here and with your own projects. Please do register at http://outfitnm.com and maybe help me show my group the light.

I have built my own Appleseed biodiesel processor, make my own fuel, built my own remote solar powered Wifi relay tower, and with the help from the guys at Otherpower built our first axial flux wind turbine.

After all this, I still hear from my group that electricity is nine cents per Kilowatt so why do I bother?

I need help at a very basic level. People need to wake up.

This is why I am reaching out to this group.    

[JW]

That puts things in pespective for me. Good response... Just remember, that you are a part of this group,(a member) and should feel welcome to drop in when you would like.

JW