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Well I went to bed last night (ok it was 4:30am) with a forcast of 10 to 12 (4-5 inches)cms of snow that just started falling as I went down
I woke up at noonish & there was 39 cms down. & still snowing (about 15-16 inches) not counting the damn drifts & the snowbank from the plows that do the roads, which were 2 ft +. I had to be in the city for an important appointment by 2...thank all the engineering god's for 4x4's that actually work.

I wish I had a job that I could tell everyone, we'll hang your show in 2 hours we'll need to rent this much stuff & the next day, finish the job in 6 or 7 hours, come in at 3 times the price & no one gets fired , no one gets reprimanded, we all keep getting paid for fucking up.
Because that is exactly what so called weather forcasters get .
IMO its way past time to label that job by its real title "Weather guessers" or " Weather Liars Inc." or my favorite "We haven't got a CLUE"...." but here's a guess"

Are you struggling, financially, More?

4x4 doesn't help so much with the ice. It does, however, help a LOT when you need to get out of that ditch you just spun out into :P

At 2/17/10 07:46 PM, fli wrote: Are you struggling, financially, More?

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THis time of year is always slow Fli.
But I'm in no financial difficulty.
What has that to do with, expecting paid professionals to actually be capable of getting more than just the sun rise & sunset time right in their forecasts ?
What we hear around here as the usual excuse is...its difficult, our forecst models are complex !
Well you know ,if getting the early moon missions actually up to the moon was equivelant to hitting a pea swinging on a string from mile & a half away,with a bullet ... yet Nasa did it many times.

Why can't the people involved in so called 'weather models' come up with a bit more accuracey than it might snow or it might rain, with all the technology, weather stations all over North America, with thousands of volunters sending weather reports form backyards stations throughout America & Canada, constant aircraft reports, satelite imagery ...fuck look out your window !

Yet they are not occassionally wrong, they are usually wrong !
In my job, if I or others in my field were wrong as often as they are, most rock/Live acts would never be performed...because the show wouldn't be ready (lighting,sound & scenic/stage ) on time.
If airline pilots were as dependable as the weather forecsters, you'd either be killed more often than a plane actually made it to its destination...or you'd end up landing somewhere, but not actually where you intended.

It just seems lately weather guessers & are doing a shittier job than usual, time to bring in the phsycic's.
They'll be guessing as well, but maybe they'll be better at it...with the added bonus our tax dollars won't have to pay for satelites, weather stations, etc.
You know they called for 4 to 5 inches of snow overnight, then clearing with cloudy blah blah blah...well it hasn't stopped snowing since Tuesday night...its still snowing right this second !
How fucking difficult is it to look at a satelite image & report the fucking area has a thousand 2 thousand whatever size system, check how fast or slow it moves & come up with something better ?
10 to 12 hours of snow is now in hour 34 + & counting , plus they're calling for rain again today & its too damn cold to rain ! I mean come on someone please go outside & feel the air temperature !
fuck your thermometer...its obviously broken !
It cannot rain when the temperature is below freezing...it just can't do it !
It s a physics thing with watervapor, temperature they way one effects the other... sorry I'm ranting & just pissed off with the whole stupid fuckin' system.
If I owned a sound sytem, rigging system, irrigation system, anything that was as unreliable as the weather forecasters system...I'd have removed it,destroyed it & tried something else a long time ago ! Where's the crickets at ? anyone checked the thickness of the hair on the deer population this week ? Are the birds flying or are they all hunkering down ?

ahhhh , thanks Fli...that feels better.

At 2/18/10 08:56 AM, morefngdbs wrote: weathermen rant

Personally? I'd love to have that kind of job, just for the simple fact that (as you so astutely pointed out) it's the only job you can be 100% wrong at all the time and not get fired for it. The biggest joke is they actually go to school and have degrees in their given fields in order to qualify for the job. ;-D

At 2/19/10 12:35 AM, Proteas wrote:

At 2/18/10 08:56 AM, morefngdbs wrote: weathermen rant

Personally? I'd love to have that kind of job, just for the simple fact that (as you so astutely pointed out) it's the only job you can be 100% wrong at all the time and not get fired for it. The biggest joke is they actually go to school and have degrees in their given fields in order to qualify for the job. ;-D

Not the TV guys... they're the eye candy.
they most likely have people doing the grunt work.

Tonight I'm making a seafood bisque with crab meat, oysters, roasted red sweet pepper, and artichoke hearts. It's my first chance to use my new Cuisinart food processor. I'm excited!

At 2/19/10 12:20 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Tonight I'm making a seafood bisque with crab meat, oysters, roasted red sweet pepper, and artichoke hearts. It's my first chance to use my new Cuisinart food processor. I'm excited!

I am only good for marinating and then baking/grilling chicken/beef or putting hot dogs on the BBQ in the summer. We had salmon wrapped around some crab meat stuffing stuff (from the sea food counter at the grocery store) and tonight we're eating some haddock thing from the seafood counter. I used to detest fish, but lately I've been making it a habit to try new things and I ignored fish for so long that I didn't realize how much good food I've been missing out on, so I'm trying to eat at least one new fish meal when I can, be it if we're going out to eat on a date or picking something up from the store.

I want lobster though. I've gone to a couple of seafood joints and ordered meals with lobster in it, but I haven't had good lobster in a while. Need me a nice mid-sized hardshell north atlantic lobster. Maybe I'll figure out what to do if I were to buy one from the store and cook it myself. My cats would probably want to play with it and my wife would probably name it and want to keep it as a pet or something crazy like that before I could eat it though

My neice got in trouble for threatening another child with a pair of scissors.

I'm so proud. There's no telling what that other little shit did to have it coming. Then again, being alive is enough.
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I think it's just a freaky weather year, though. Weather goes in cycles, hell, there was a mini-ice age last century according to records. Natural feed back response loops are funny things, after all. In millions of years that it took for the earth's climate to stabilize, there are all kinds of safety valves in there that blow from time to time.

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I love watching dreams die. My vocalist/guitarist has been dreaming of this psychobilly project forever, and it's just great watching all the people he thought would have his back crushing his naive hopes one after another. It really brightens my day.

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How do you guys get through your lives without the doctrine of hate? I don't think I could.

At 2/19/10 09:35 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Since my BF is discussing the Olympics right now, figured I'd present a fun fact:

A young lady from my college is on Canada's hockey team. You may have heard of her since she has two goals already. Her name is Meghan Agosta.

That's pretty cool. I'm waiting for some of the people I grew up with to pop up on those olympic teams. I remember there were a few girls in my little sister's class in school who were cross country ski racers in high school, and one girl who was a speed skater. I met Jimmy Shae right before he went to the 2002 salt lake city olympics. Then again, you get a few more olympians when the town next door hosted the olympics and there's a US olympic training center and world cup stops for bob sled and alpine skiing events nearby. It's crazy to think that 30 years ago tiny backwoods places like where I grew up could host the winter olympics.

I won tickets to Three Days Grace/Chevelle/Adelita's Way at St. Paul, on march 30

by the way is it just me or have a lot of mods been getting demoded.

At 2/19/10 01:57 AM, fli wrote: Not the TV guys... they're the eye candy.
they most likely have people doing the grunt work.

I'm not about to give Al Roker a pass because his interns are retarded.

At 2/19/10 08:44 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: How do you guys get through your lives without the doctrine of hate? I don't think I could.

We manage. ;-D

I manage because of a personal philosophy of "shit happens, and 95% of the time it's nothing to get upset about," which is usually true when you stop to think about it. Most of the stuff that goes on in your daily life isn't enough to get really upset over, and getting mad about it isn't going to change anything for the better anyway, so why bother with letting it get to you?

This of course not only makes it easier for me to sleep at night, but it also makes it so I can go into a meditative state like it was nothing.

At 2/20/10 02:56 AM, RydiaLockheart wrote: There was a notification in my campus inbox that one of the adult students died in their campus residence today. Right now they're not releasing any more information. It's bothering me though because there's a chance I know that person, and all sorts of scenarios are running through my head.

Well, time for that old saying "Hope for the best, assume the worst" to be put to use.

Always weird when something like that happens.

At 2/19/10 08:44 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: How do you guys get through your lives without the doctrine of hate?

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I run on 'pure hate' all the time.
Its one of the things that keeps me from dying !
I'm feeling so much damn hate at the time, I just can't die !
Death's absolutely terrified of me at that particular moment.
I'm one of those people who's going to die in my sleep or at someother peaceful , happy time ~;)
I can hear it now
death -"c'mon, More you're coming to a hells kitchen party with me"
More" alright...do I need any cash or can I get everything I need with just a soul ?"

I need stress management, I can't sleep well at night pre midterm/final/signing up for classes.

At 2/20/10 10:59 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

I run on 'pure hate' all the time.
Its one of the things that keeps me from dying !
I'm feeling so much damn hate at the time, I just can't die !
Death's absolutely terrified of me at that particular moment.

Damn, that's some pure win right there.

You'd be surprised at how many times you can meet someone and go on a 20 minute hate tirade and have them think you're awesome afterward.

At 2/21/10 08:57 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: Wow, just a dollar?

Screw that, I think all dentists would be happy and 5 out of 5 would recommend using it.

... is it weird that I saw that and immediately started wondering how I could mix some of that up at home?

I keep thinking... why?
Scotch is for drinking, and its flavor isn't all to pleasant. At least, it's an acquired taste (as all alcoholic beverages.)

It just reminds me of the oat bran tooth paste that I remember when I was a kid in the early 90s.

Mouth Wash made out of whiskey... now, that's an idea...

copyrighted by fli...

Mouth Scotch ©Henri

At 2/22/10 05:02 AM, fli wrote: I keep thinking... why?
Scotch is for drinking, and its flavor isn't all to pleasant. At least, it's an acquired taste (as all alcoholic beverages.)

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Actually depending on many factors single Malt Scotch (s) can be very delishious, from very light almost a fruity taste in Dalwhinnie Single malt, to a nice Oban, with a slight oily creamy seaweed flavor to the the very strong flavored smokey peat taste of Lagavulin.
These are 3 of my favorites & while I've tried many types, these are my usual picks when I want something special.

Mouth Wash made out of whiskey... now, that's an idea...

copyrighted by fli...

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Sorry Fli, its been done. the only difference between mouthwash & whiskey/scotch mouthwash, is you don't spit the scotch out ;)