Good Morning Oh Kee Pa (Part 1)

Morning!

^Brad, I’m so glad to hear you’re broke and in music rather than miserably trudging thru that crappy sales job. :crazy:

I’m in crunch time too, as the band I’m working with is evolving and changing right now, and it’s pretty good. Positive changes, forward motion. Also working hard at family life with renewed energy for that, and it continues to go well … and the office job is in the busy season, so yeah. Intensity switch in the on position.

Beautiful winter day though, near as I can tell. Have coffee. Health. A big zit. A promising lunch. And believe it or not I already had pizza today. Leftover slice of awesome carmelized onion/sundried tomato > toaster oven for breakfast. Ahhhhhhhh.

^ mmmmmmmmm… carmelized…mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

a lot of stores stay open but most people are off and there’s no school. they don’t take care of the roads too well down here. i walked down the street to the drug store this morning to get some OJ and saw this guy slide into the curb and knock his hubcap off. i took that pic this morning and it’s snowing pretty hard now and is gonna keep it up all day.

i usually don’t like the cold and snow but i’m kinda enjoying it today. i’m not driving anywhere though unless they clear the road. i’ll probably walk down the street and get some sushi for lunch if they are open.

^ sounds like a nice chill monday to me :thumbup:

Hello people! Well, there’s a solid 6-8 inches on the ground now, and it’s supposed to keep on coming, so… hell yeah! School is VERY canceled here; hell, they called it off before it started snowing. They are really terrible at clearing roads here, which is shocking when you think about the fact that we’re in the damn MOUNTAINS. Whatever, there’s probably not gonna be snow for at least another couple days, because all the secondary roads are completely untreated. The main artery roads are fine, but those of us who live on regular, residential roads have a rather hostile roadway to deal with. I’m about to go try to get my car out, so we’ll see how that goes.

Morning! At 2:00 PM!!!

^Man, why couldn’t they call off school before it started snowing when I was a kid. I still had to get up at 7am and huddle next to a radio or the TV to see if school is closed. Now, they close them because the weather report says snow. Sheeesssh…

It is amazing the difference between Northern and Southern Ohio.

Up here, it takes at least a foot fall in one day for anything to shut down.

Down South, the city shuts down and freaks out with two inches.

It was pretty amazing the amount of classes were canceled or moved to online because of barely nothing.

Fucking hell…Never ONCE in my 13 years of elementary/highschool did the school close down because of the weather. Not once. Sometimes the buses didn’t run, sometimes you had to shovel your entire way to the front door of that school…sometimes people died! (ok, not really, but we could have)…man…we would never get anything done here if we closed things down everytime we get a few feet of snow.

^well thats just it you would if you could jah. If i was able to call it a snow day every time it snows hells yah i would. sit home, watch the snow, leisurely shovel the walk… shovel every few hours so you don’t have to shovel a huge amount all at once… so when you only get a few snowfalls per year, stay home, why risk it? but when it tends to snow every other day you have to risk it. it can make life an adventure no? no, not really. snow sucks wampa balls.

Morning folks

Could be a snow day tomorrow if the weatherman turns out to be accurate.

Cool with me, Val gets the day off and it will be slow around the office.

Decent little BCS game last night, was expecting a much higher score. 1st quarter was sloppy and boring.

I’m tired.

I’m starting to hit that mid-winter funk.

When does spring get here?

aight then, lates

I’m surprised you never had school cancelled up in Regina, Devin. I remember winter of ‘96-97 we had 10-12 snowdays, but that was the worst winter I’ve lived through. Fargo gets a lot of blizzards, which basically just means snow is falling at the same time winds are blowin’, but if you combine that with cold temps it can be dangerous for sure. I’m sure Regina had plenty of mornings with temps at or colder than -20 degrees Fahrenheith, when your eyelids can freeze shut and snotsicles form within seconds of being exposed :laughing:

but I guess it was probably less than half the time that schools closed just because of how cold it was. usually it was because so much snow had fallen that the plows couldn’t get the streets cleared in time. we’ve had probably 6-7 days with temps below zero during daylight hours so far this year out in big sky (including yesterday and today), and people have been saying it’s much colder than usual. hasn’t been too bad for me but I’m def looking forward to feb/march where historically the weather gets above freezing (32 degrees) during the day on the reg. Skiing in nice warm weather with the most powder the mountain has had all year is going to be ideal :sunglasses:

I’ve gotten into a routine of waking up around 6 a.m. and passing out by 10 p.m. here…it’s ridiculous. I do like the mornings but I definitely feel like a party pooper.

good morning

:wave:

^ Speaking of sleeping Hank, do you think that you are more tired now because you are at a higher elevation? Like you’re getting less oxygen now then you are used to? I always feel like when I’m in BC I can barely stay awake for 12 hours a day, and my mom says that lots of people that come out there from Saskatchewan have that problem because of the huge shift in elevation.

I bet the biggest problem most cities in the South have is just snow removal. I mean, if you can get the plows out there right when it starts falling, you can keep the roads clean enough that it’s “safe” to drive out there, but I imagine many cities in the South don’t own multiple snow plows/graters, and some probably don’t even own one. I think our city has 50 or so, but you’d never really know it by driving around here some days. Stupid lazy city workers.

EDIT: Funny, as I was typing that, my dad calls and tells me he’s on the highway heading to a site meeting and there are just tons of cars in the ditch including an upside down SUV. Like I say, nothing really ever shuts down here because of the weather. People still go to work, school, etc, because if we let the weather stop us we would probably only have a handful of days each winter where people would actually be working.

Anyway, not a good morning so far OKP. I was halfway to work and Erin calls and tells me that our other car ('88 Ford Tempo bitches!) just got broken into last night and they busted the ignition. At least they didn’t steal it…I guess, and the car was unlocked so they didn’t need to smash a window. It just sucks though. Yet another unexpected expense…another roadblock on my way to financial independence.

Good morning folks. We have this 50+ year old guy that works in our shared office. He has bad circulation and gets claustrophobic if he doesn’t have enough sunlight or some bullshit. This is a problem for me because I sit next to the window which has the radiator right under it. So he always has to has the blinds open which means I can’t see my monitor from the glare and the heat turned up to (not exaggerating) 78. So I’m sitting here right now with the radiator on full tilt with the window open on a 15 degree day.

/rant

Sorry, but i can’t rant out loud

^sounds like he’s angling for the desk by the window.

Morning 'Pa. Had a really productive day yesterday, and I needed that. I’ve been so jammed up lately with meetings and telcons that I haven’t been able to get any real work completed, so yesterday was a great morale boost.

Snow is heading up the coast, and by the time it hits southern NJ, it will join with an off-shore low pressure system that will energize it with more moisture. Current predictions have another 12+ inches coming our way beginning some time late this afternoon. I’m already preparing to work from home tomorrow, which is fine by me. A little work, a little Wii, a little food with my honey. Yep, sounds like a nice day coming tomorrow. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

So bummed this morning. I thought I would wake up to a beautiful blanket of snow on the ground and my husband telling me that work was called off due to the roads. No dice. No snow, no husband to wake up to snuggle with, just me and the midge and A LOT of rain. ugh …

The one silver lining to this morning is that I now have a coffee maker. With one of my christmas gift cards I went out and bought the Tassimo Brewbot which was worth every single penny. Seven different beverage options? YES PLEASE!!!

^Wait, do you mean to tell me you were living on this earth WITHOUT a coffee pot? :crazy:

I suggested that we switch desks a while ago and said no! WHAT THE FUCK?

My high school never shut down because of snow, but we did get a couple days off during the Rodney King riots. :confused:

Yes, but allow me to blow your mind just a bit more. I was living on this earth without a coffee pot AND a 9 month old baby. So all of those mornings after sleepless nights? Survived sans caffeine. sniffs Yeah… I"m hardcore. :wink:

Snow all day here in the windy city.

I love it actually.

^^ :laughing:

My wife drinks coffee, but we don’t have a coffee pot. She uses a french press. :thumbup:

I don’t drink coffee, cause it gives me heartburn and headaches, but I do like to add a few drops of canna-oil to my morning tea. :mrgreen: