Florida highways are a special breed of awful.
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Carpaccio de' chevrotain. (Kisses fingers)
So, pistachios were 20% off. I didn't buy enough.
Fall weather putting in another appearance.
Our ridiculous Fall weather (66 when I woke up, about 25 degrees above what used to be known as "normal") continues but seemingly ends today, big rain coming thru
Got my flu jab, bring on the cold weather.
Weather is glorious in NW NC. 50s for lows and 60-70s for highs the next 2 weeks. Nashville was warm (80s). Headed to Winnipeg/Saskatoon next Saturday and lows in upper 20s/low 30s and highs mid 50s. I am steeling my resolve. I am encumbered with a delicate constitution.
Finished yardwork with 2:16 to go in the 1st half. I see I didn't miss much.
People seem really mad today.
It was very much a thing in Canadian ultra cold weather towns like Edmonton 40 years ago, I imagine it still is. "Tank heaters" are great, let your engine think it's 80 degrees out when it's really 25 below zero (and it does get to 25 below zero, Fahrenheit).
Numerous times at -35 or so...I used to live in a house (decades ago when the winters were much, much colder) that housed an official U. S. Weather Bureau substation...temps became something of a fixation.
Peeing poses no problem, but don't even think of getting your tongue on something metal, or it'll stick to it like gorilla glue.
I passively track Duke football and watch a ton of good teams. Usually I pick one of them to kind of follow. I have always done this. Very seldom the same team every year. Now my daughter is at Alabama, so it's them. Before that I never pulled for them. But this is sooooooooo much healthier. I live and die with Duke basketball, my brother's high school team and Braves baseball (definitely 3rd fiddle but significant). College and NFL football are a smidge problematic for me anyway, so I sort of enjoy just watching as a passive fan. Seems healthy.
Visited a Vandy fan site(mostly alums). They are apoplectic.
Well, that was the capper to a crappy sports day.
I don't think that Duke is the kind of place that should push folks out in the middle of the season. That seems like an emotional reaction and I don't support that. Immediate termination should be reserved for Troublemakers.
Why do some people pronounce it "FOIL-age"? Where does that come from?!?
I just scrolled through some posts. I think we can get better value for our money.
And I was one of those who made a bet with Troublemaker
These puns are corny.
Did I do it right?
So, no discussion of the main site being down? dbr.com
I have the hiccups. The kind that hurt.
Well, since you asked . . .
More stressful than it should be. I am actually a fairly low-maintenance person. All I want is a clean, safe place to stay. The hotel that we have been staying at since 1983 has been bought out by this huge hotel conglomerate nightmare. I called several times before the trip to make sure our reservations would not be affected by the buyout, including a week before. When we checked in, we were told that we were being kicked out of our gulf front room after a few days and moved to a crappy poolside room b/c of renovations- that they did not notify me about, even though I was told they would. The replacement room had adjoining doors that were not soundproofed at all and we could hear the first occupant slapping his girlfriend and smell the second ones' god-awful lunch cooking. then they covered the beautiful beach with a bunch of Tampa Bay Bucs crap, games, concert stage, CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT, etc. We could not even see the water for all the mess. This is what this company has done to the beach. And they have the nerve to try and charge 2.5 times this year's rate for next year!
We have made reservations elsewhere for next year.
And in addition to the traffic jam on the Howard Franklin on Friday, we got caught in a HUGE jam on I-40 near Garner on Saturday. Absolute nightmare. Plus, the post office did not hold our mail. And the shelling sucked this year!
I need a vacation!
Took a new job as the head of Old MacDonald's Farm. I'm the CIEIO.
You guys need to go to bed earlier.
Question for the day:
Since the plural of "minuteman" is "minutemen", shouldn't the plural of "Minute Maid" be "Minute Mead"?
12:30 down here in GA, believe it or not, because of course one could never possibly make it from church to the imbibing establishment in under half an hour.
We were the last state in the union to have blanket blue laws irrespective of locality, and then the first Sunday we could legally buy was, I kid you not, New Year's Day...the one day when people don't want to buy. I did so anyway, just on principle.
When I moved to Georgia, my first available day to grocery shop, including beer, was a Sunday. Took my cart to checkout and was informed that alcohol sales were prohibited on Sunday.
My next available day was a Tuesday. Unfortunately for me there was a local runoff election. No beer sales.
The next available day was a Saturday. Walked the aisles of a grocery store, and couldn’t find beer or wine. At checkout, the cashier said that the sale of alcohol was against the owner’s religious beliefs.
On Sunday, I went to a sporting goods store to buy some fishing gear. While there I stopped be the firearms section. I asked the guy behind the counter what the requirements were in Georgia to buy a handgun. He looked surprised at the question, and stated that you needed one of two things: 1) money, or 2) a credit card.
I then hatched my plan of buying a handgun and robbing a grocery store of a 6 pack of Coors.
They reopened all those parks in Florida they had been searching for Brian Laundrie. I guess that’s a fancy way of saying he’s not there.
Ready for Daylight Savings to end.
What is a metaverse and why does Facebook want to be one?
I like the sun being up soon after I get up and that is pre-7 AM not pre-8 AM.
I prefer it to be lighter sooner. My morning walk is a heck of a lot nicer when it is actually morning. There's nothing cool about walking under streetlights. I'm not sleeping past 6 most days regardless, so the time I'm awake before dawn starts to break is...mostly wasted, if I'm honest.
I'm argumentative.
I usually not done with work for the day until after 6:30 and more often to 7 PM. So there isn't much chance of me doing stuff outside after 5:30 on anything but the weekends. During the summer, I can mow the yard mid-week but the sun isn't setting until 8:30 PM then.
For me it's mental and emotional productivity. I've really gotten into a pretty nice Zen rhythm at the gym, so it doesn't require a whole lot of thought to go through my routine, especially once I get to the cardio part. I use that hour to contemplate and work through a lot of things.
Then, I also keep an extra half hour or so built into my morning schedule to, as I said, just sit quietly in the dark after finishing my shower. I might spend it puttering on the internet, I might read something to prep for the school day, or I might just be still.
At any rate, my predawn routine is very precious to me.
I don't have a problem with it. Days are shorter, then after 12/21 they slowly start getting longer again. Just forces me to do more inside stuff that needs to be done.
We did this last year (this is my 1 year anniversary...sorry!). Bostondevil makes the point about standard time being safer for school children at bus stops. It is a solid point. I just need the daylight.
I don't care whether we stick with the daylight savings time hours or go with standard time. I just don't like the switching back and forth.
I actually worked with someone in high school who thought daylight savings time gave you an extra hour of daylight. She didn't understand that it just shifted the hours of daylight. I wonder what she ended up doing in life?
I simply don't like coming home from work in the dark.
When I've lived WAY north (VT, Seattle) it doesn't make any difference, as it's always dark.
That doesn't always work either. If you're really far east within your time zone, it still gets dark at ungodly hours in the winter months.
For example, during my time in Greenville, NC (like an hour and a half east of Raleigh), sunset was before 5pm on the shortest days of the year, and it would be straight up night by like 5:30.
Ok, then there is no way to come home from work during daylight hours unless you switch the working hours. That's a better solution, if you ask me. Free ourselves from the antiquated 9-5 mentality! Of course, in somewhere like Boston which is even further east in the time zone than Greenville, even with the switch back to EST, we have 9 hours of daylight (sunrise is 7:10am this year on the Winter Solstice, sunset is 4:15pm), so, squeezing in an 8 hour day without at least some commuting time in the dark is difficult. We need to advocate away from the 8 hour work day! When the days are shorter, so is the amount of time one spends at work. Or you work from home. Or you pick your poison. For those who hate going to work in the dark (me), you come in later and leave later. For those who hate going from work in the dark, you come in earlier and leave earlier. The only way to avoid commuting in the dark in the winter in Boston is to live within walking distance from work or have a less than 30 minute drive and work from 7:30 - 3:30.
I experienced this on a summer trip a few years ago. We spent a couple of days in UP Michigan, far to the west in the Porcupine Mountains. That far north and west, but still in the Eastern time zone, the sun set on us well after midnight. You hear about that sort of thing in, like, Alaska or Norway or something, but I hadn't expected it in Michigan.