Caught In The Whirlwind
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Yup. It’s December.
Dec 9th
We’re right in the middle of our first winter storm of the season right now. Snow, wind and sleet/freezing rain later on in the day. Fun! Today was also my first drive to work after moving further away in true winter conditions. We had a smaller event last week, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as the weather we were getting today.
Altogether though, my drive was better than I was expecting it to be. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that during the hilly bit, a snow plow had just gone through and deposited a fresh coat of sand. Thankfully. I’m not looking forward to the drive home if the freezing rain prediction holds true though.
December also means planning for family gatherings and the dates of them this year have started to firm up. I’ll be busy the 24th through the 26th with Christmas family gatherings which works out fine for me. Going to be at my parents for Christmas Eve and Christmas and then out to one of my Aunts for the gathering for my dad’s side of the family. We might have some people over for Christmas Eve from my mom’s side…possibly. Not quite sure how that’s all going to shake out though.
Lets see, more random stuff. I did some re-measurement yesterday and it actually seems that I’ll be able to fit a new desk into my space in the office after all. Wassy was up there doing work last night so I figured I’d see where my chair would be pushed with her sitting there at her drafting table working and it actually looks like we have more space than I was initially thinking we would have. That always seems to be the case. So perhaps that can be a tax refund expenditure. We’ll see what happens, as I know I’m not getting nearly as much back this year as I have in previous years.
How Much Snow?!?
Feb 18th
Not much happening over the past couple days worth mentioning really. I've just been working on my programming stuff and playing some Tomb Raider: Anniversary that I just got through Gamefly. So it's been all quiet on this front.
We're experiencing another winter event though, relatively minor. It's only worth mentioning because this is the second time in a row that I've scheduled a haircut for a day where we get at least 2-3 inches of snow. I think I'm going to stop scheduling haircuts and then it might possibly be spring.
The title of this post comes from the weather forecast located on the right there.
1 to 20 inches???? I'm pretty sure that has got to be a typo, but…geeze. If it was actually true that's like the ultimate in weather man cop outs.
"It's going to snow tomorrow. Could be 1 inch, could be 2 feet. Hell if I know!"
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First Snow
Oct 28th
Well, I knew it was coming but I had hoped it would take a little longer to get here. It is now currently snowing for the first time this season. No accumulation, but there is definitely snowflakes coming down. I'm hoping it won't get too bad because I have some plans tomorrow which may get screwed up by the weather. It's looking fairly mild though.
I usually look forward to the first snow of the year, actually. There's nothing quite like it. But October is way too early. November is more my style. It shouldn't snow until after Halloween and it should only stay until January 1st. The rest of the year should be a snow free zone!
At least the weather is still looking good for the haunted house outing this Friday. Snow will not win!
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Snow-geddon 07!!
Dec 16th
The northeast is currently in the midst of a the first real winter storm of the season. Lots of wind at the moment, blowing stuff around. Kinda normal for the area. But you would have thought the world was coming to an end yesterday.
I had to go grocery shopping and it was a madhouse. The had every cash register open and the lines to check out were still crazy long. Haven't these people ever been through a winter storm before? I was surprised that the laundry place wasn't that busy. I would have figured people would want to try to get that out of the way as well. I guess they were all grocery shopping.
I spent my last remaining day on earth (because we're all going to die in this snow storm of course) over at my friends house where we watched some Anime (more Fushigi Yugi) hung out and also played Trauma Center: New Blood on the Wii. Trauma center is really cool now since it has an actual co-op mode that works really well. There's some nerve wracking surgeries in this game now and it puts the two player option to good use. The difficulty may have been a little exaggerated due to the fact we were also drinking… The skin graft operation, in particular was very, very difficult.
In any case it was a good way to unwind after my stressful week. We'll probably keep playing the game Wednesday or this weekend (between my holiday festivities)
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Coming Up For Air
Dec 6th
I'm smack dab in the middle of the end of the semester crunch week, which is why my posting has gotten a little sparse. Things are going along pretty much as scheduled though which is, obviously a good thing.
I'm all done with actual "classes" now, having gone to my last World Religions class which focused on Islam. We had a Muslim student in the class who was very helpful in explaining about the various daily prayers and even giving us a demonstration of the morning prayer (in Arabic and then translated into English)
Work continues tonight on the Software Engineering Project. This weekend will be partially devoted to research and paper writing for creation stories of various religions.
Zooming backwards a bit, it seems that winter has actually arrived in full force around here. The past couple days the weather has been fairly nasty. I'm happy to report that my Nissan Rogue performs perfectly in the snow. I've had a lot of chances to test it out recently and once I got used to how it drives as opposed to how my civic drove in the snow, I can say it feels a lot more solid. My civic felt like it was at the edge of disaster every time I tried to take a curve, no matter how slow I was going (I once spun it going around a corner at ~5 miles per hour. I just had to sit there and laugh at that one)
So in short, all is good, although it's busy. One more week to go…
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But…But…It's APRIL!
Apr 16th
I woke up this fine morning to the sound of howling wind. Then I looked out my front window:
It's April 16th! Snow should have stopped in March! April showers bring May flowers, not snowstorms! Sigh.
Anyway…spent the weekend doing fun and relaxing things. Went over to a friends place on saturday to watch The Prestige which I had rented through netflix. It's a very good, and very confusing movie. Just when you think you've got it figured out, they throw something else at you which changes things completely. Highly recommended. Although I didn't even realize Hugh Jackman or David Bowie were in it until it was pointed out to me.
After that, more anime, a stop at IHOP for dinner and then…more anime. Chobits is turning out to be very interesting. Awesome art and a fairly thought provoking story
Sunday was more relaxation. I started the process of cycling my aquarium in preparation for sticking some fish in there. I then played Final Fantasy 7 almost all day, finishing Disc 1 before calling it a night. It's a really good game so far.
My only complaint is that it leaves you hanging an awful lot as far as giving you some direction as to where you're supposed to go next. At this one point, for example, your party is all bent on rescuing this certain other member of the party that's gone missing.
"Let's go find her!" They say. And then it drops you out to the world map with no idea where to start looking. I had to look at a walkthrough in order to figure out that I had to go to the far northern continent, practically halfway around the world from where I was when they decided to look for her. A little direction would have been nice. Heck, I would have settled for "we should start looking north." They didn't even need to mention it was on a different continent.
I was going to run up to school today during my lunch break to try and work out some of my scheduling problems, but I think I'll have to put that off until tomorrow due to the weather conditions right now. Sigh.
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I'm Not Participating!!
Apr 8th
The fish browsing went well yesterday. I think I've settled on doing a 20 gallon tank which is (hopefully) 24 inches wide since that's exactly how much width I have on my counter thingy seperating my "living room" from the "kitchen" here. I also got to see what a betta looks like in an actual big tank since they had them in with other fish.
After the browsing, Wassy and I went back to my place where she further corrupted me with Anime and Manga. Chobits is pretty cool. At dinner (we met up with Jason since he was done with working on his large papers) we discussed her reality warping effects. Ever since coming into contact with her all of my hobbies have pretty much changed around completley. Went from a hardcore PC gamer to a console gamer, going from hating cats to possibly wanted one (as long as it was a calm, boring cat)…hating anime to enjoying some of it. She leave chaos behind here I tell you! Dinner also featured the absolute largest piece of cheesecake that I've ever seen in my entire life.
As far as the title of the post goes, it's…snowing. In April. I've decided that I'm not going to participate in winter anymore. It's April…it should be over. So I'm just not participating.
Plans for today include reading some stuff dead people wrote for my Western Civ class and going over to my Grandmothers to hang out with the family due to today being Easter. That's pretty much the only thing Easter means to me these days…a chance to hang out with the family.
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The Great Lake Tarp Project
Feb 20th
I was having a conversation with a friend last friday about the large amounts of snow we had gotten. This area is right in the line of fire of the lake effect snow coming off of Lake Ontario. It’s getting really, really annoying.
So she says:
I’ve had quite enough of it. I say we put tarps over the Great Lakes to prevent all this lake effect snow. This is the 21st century, we shouldn’t still be living like this!
And it just so happens that I was bored at work that day…so I tried to figure out how much that would cost:
I second this plan! Lets put it into motion immediately
Lets see here…the surface area of the great lakes is roughly 94,270 square miles which comes out to 2,628,096,768,000 square feet.
And according to this athletic tarp manufacturing website I just found with a custom quote option, we could order a single tarp that big for…$415,764,910,615.42 and then cut it down to size…
Or, if we get a whole bunch of 100 square foot tarps… which is roughly $28,882,783,500,000, but it won’t be a custom job and we’d have to include the cost of the kids in china in order to sew all of the tarps together.
I’m just surprised that the custom tarp calculator let me put in a tarp that big.
Oh, and in the interests of full disclosure, I made a mistake when I was calculating out the length of the sides of the big single tarp when I first sent her the message. This is a corrected figure.
It looks like it’ll be cheaper just to get one big tarp and then cut it to fit…
I Could Do Without Winter
Feb 15th
If you live in the Northeastern United States, you probably know what I’m talking about, but we just had our very first major winter storm of the season blow through yesterday. I’m not sure what the official totals were, but I had about a foot of snow on my car when I went to brush it off this morning.
My back also aches from my 20 minute shoveling adventure to clear my porch and apartment steps off yesterday after I got home from work. I took some pictures yesterday, but they all turned out horrible (more horrible than normal in fact), so you’re just going to have to imagine what things looked like.
In addition, I got my car stuck in the driveway this morning, at the end where all the snow plows leave the snow they push off the road. It took 15 minutes and 2 neighbors to push my car out.
The best part of this is…we’re probably getting more lake effect snow tonight. Just what I wanted…more snow.
Stuck…In The Driveway?
Feb 9th
Starting my Friday off with a bang this morning, I managed to get my car stuck in a plowed out driveway.
Ok, so what if I was driving out at a bit of an angle? And what does the fact that there was a 2 foot snowbank exactly where I was pointing have to do with anything???
Well, luckily, my neighbor (who I didn’t think was home) came out with his snow blower and helped dig me back out again.
Hopefully that was all the drama I’m going to have today.
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