How do you feel today? v. 3.0

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:07 pm

Got the driveway all cleaned up. Raked the roofs. Shoveled off the deck, and cleared access to the oil tank fill.

.. More snow tomorrow. And then again Sunday. (It's the third most snow ever recorded in a year for Boston, and it's still coming.)

Sorry to hear about it, michael; everyone seems okay.

Sorry about the foot, Sarge. But I think you have a few more ass kickin' days left.

Sorus ... you make your own luck. Good and bad. Don't wait for winning the lottery... make plans to do something nice on the next Fri13, take the day off, we're talking spa or jewelry shopping or hiking somewhere new or something.

Post by **michaelm** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:23 pm

Thanks Wayfriend, we were both fine. The truck just sideswiped me behind the wheel arch but we weren't really going that fast. I'm kind of resigned to the fact now that I'm surrounded by pretty much the worst drivers in the country and just assume that this is going to be a biannual event from now on...

Post by **michaelm** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:21 pm

Got to drop my car off at a body shop and pick up a rental car today. There's thick ice on the roads so I'm waiting for it to melt. Hopefully the roads will be clear of ice by tonight.

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:50 pm

Where I work there is a small atrium.

Hopefully the trash can gives this pic some scale - the windows are about 12 feet high.

Oh, yeah ... and I am sick of snow.

Post by **michaelm** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:44 pm

Well at least it's on the outside...

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:12 am

That's a lot of snow. Send some over here, we're having a freaking heat wave.

michaelm wrote:Thanks Wayfriend, we were both fine. The truck just sideswiped me behind the wheel arch but we weren't really going that fast. I'm kind of resigned to the fact now that I'm surrounded by pretty much the worst drivers in the country and just assume that this is going to be a biannual event from now on...

There are a LOT of bad drivers out there. I don't even drive and I was in a hit and run a couple of years ago - guy ran a red while texting. I think distraction is a big factor. Glad your driving skills were vindicated.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:28 am

Damn that is a lot of snow.

I can't imagine living somewhere that cold.

--A

Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:15 pm

wayfriend wrote: Hopefully the trash can gives this pic some scale - the windows are about 12 feet high.

Aftermath of having Frost Giants visit your continent last year...

Post by **michaelm** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 1:28 pm

Sorus wrote:
michaelm wrote:Thanks Wayfriend, we were both fine. The truck just sideswiped me behind the wheel arch but we weren't really going that fast. I'm kind of resigned to the fact now that I'm surrounded by pretty much the worst drivers in the country and just assume that this is going to be a biannual event from now on...

There are a LOT of bad drivers out there. I don't even drive and I was in a hit and run a couple of years ago - guy ran a red while texting. I think distraction is a big factor. Glad your driving skills were vindicated.

Yep, and pretty much every native here blames people from out of state. The cities and states in the south east consistently come near the bottom of lists of driving safety when accidents and fatalities are considered so I don't buy it that it's always "the other guy's fault"

I don't even know it's distractions - people here are just crappy drivers. I actually had to take a road test when we moved to NC (just had to transfer my license moving to SC), and I was just dumbstruck by how little I had to do. It was about 20 minutes of driving around and the only maneuver the guy from the DMV asked me to do was to back into a parking space back at the office. When I was renewing my license a few years back everyone waiting could hear the guy behind the desk helping an elderly lady cheat at her road sign recognition test.

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:25 pm

michaelm wrote:When I was renewing my license a few years back everyone waiting could hear the guy behind the desk helping an elderly lady cheat at her road sign recognition test.

Wow. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen in Virginia. *Pretty* sure. Glad you're okay after your accident, anyhow.

Sarge, is this latest thing on the same foot with the bum ankle (I think it was...)?

So Monday was a holiday and yesterday our office was technically closed due to a snowstorm (we got 4 inches and Metro canceled bus service -- go ahead and laugh at us, WF, everybody else in Boston is). But Travelin' Guy had clients coming in from India. So I got called in to work both Monday and yesterday. Funfunfun. Not.

The only saving grace is that I got paid double time and a half for yesterday.... And I'm taking next Monday off. I want my three-day weekend, dammit.

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:54 pm

aliantha wrote:And I'm taking next Monday off. I want my three-day weekend, dammit.

You tell 'em.

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 4:19 pm

I did, and they said I could. Whoo hoo! Now just gotta make it through today and tomorrow....

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 2:40 am

It has been a long week.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:37 am

Went damn quick for me.

--A

Post by **michaelm** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:43 pm

Just saw a news report on the TV in the break room -43F in part of MN..

Post by **MsMary** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 6:45 pm

Brrr!!!!

I'll take my 64 degrees, thanks, though I wish it were warmer. My house does not hold heat well.

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:35 pm

Snowed yesterday.

Snow storm tomorrow.

Post by **MsMary** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:43 pm

wayfriend wrote:Snowed yesterday.

Snow storm tomorrow.

You folks have been hammered this winter.

My daughter has been sending me pics of increasingly piled snow.

Post by **Damelon** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:09 am

aliantha wrote: You think that's bad? Google Ingress.

Never mind: Just go here.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun ... rol-london

Thanks. You got me playing Ingress.

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:49 am

Damelon wrote:
aliantha wrote: You think that's bad? Google Ingress.

Never mind: Just go here.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun ... rol-london
Thanks. You got me playing Ingress.

Aw crap. I'm sorry.... Blue or green? My kids are green. (I forget which team is which -- I only know the colors.

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