It’s officially official. Winter has come to Toronto, and it is making pretty damn sure that we’re well aware of this fact. This morning it appeared to be snowing. Except, upon stepping outside, I was quite sure that snow didn’t sting. No, it wasn’t snowing. It was shooting great pellets of ice from the sky! Okay, maybe not great pellets. Sure, maybe they were about the size of a pinhead. But still. I think they call that sleet. It was most certainly yecch and made the trip in to work interesting. It wasn’t particularly cold even despite the wind, but I wore my gloves anyway. It’s cold now, though. Too much moisture in the air making the otherwise relatively mild temperature feel much worse than it is.
I had tremendous trouble sleeping last night, too. I don’t know why – I think it was the weather playing silly buggers wth me. Didn’t get to sleep 'til sometime after 3am. Then of course it’s up at 6:30. Blah. I hate coming off weekends like that. It’s a good thing I got a lot of sleep over the weekend, at least.
My morning has so far consisted of numerous calls and an impromptu meeting about the demographics of sickle bar mowers because nobody thought to consider what sort of people might actually buy these things before we decided to carry them. I expect it’ll be fairly busy this week thanks to the current weather due to the innumerable people who have unconsciously decided that they would really rather get angry about having to repair their snow equipment now when it will take days to complete when they should have done it earlier when they knew about the problem but didn’t actually need the equipment at that moment. I am also inexplicably getting numerous calls from people who are looking for parts for OEMs that we have had absolutely nothing to do with, for hardware we have never carried. I think they’re making their way through the yellow pages or something. It’s just sort of odd that they’re all hitting today when I get maybe one of those types of calls every two or three weeks.
Taxi - Sorry to hear about kitty. It’s never good when they get ill. We couldn’t get a small animal; the poor thing would be terrorized by our existing brood of felines.
Ya know-we were cheated, YET AGAIN, from winter. We were SUPPOSED to get 4 inches of snow last noc. We got nada. Zilch. Oh, we got more dreary, gray, nasty rain, but no beautiful, fun white stuff. #2 son is disgusted with Mother Nature and God at this point.
would it kill either one of them to send us 2 inches of fluffy white? Huh?
My goals for today: flat iron my hair and get my car back from the shop (again). I got new brakes. The old ones squeaked, badly. The new ones squeak. I called the shop. They said all brakes squeak the first 50-100 miles. I called back at mile 230. They said today would be fine for them to check into it. Hmmph.
We finally got some snow here today. It’s all pretty and white out there. The roads were bad for the commute in to work today, despite it being a holiday for some people. Makes me soooooo glad for my <5 minute commute!
No good stories to tell from my Search class, except I passed. I managed to keep up with the crowd when in the weeds, so that made me happy.
Found out last night that my cousin had a heart attack Thursday, and is/was scheduled for an angioplsty today. He’s now a near carbon copy of me medically in my pre-svelte days; I may well have dodged a bullet by having the plumbing re-done…
Did I mention that we bought a new fridge yesterday? It may come today, but more likely tomorrow…
A slighly amusing but macabre thing that I heard on the radio this a.m. - they were talking about the execution of Sadam Hussein’s two co-defendents in Iraq and that one of them may have been decapitated. They then said “We interviewed the head of the department of justice.” But somehow my early Monday morning brain only heard the first part and thought for a split second that they were implying that they’d talked to the head. As in the decapitated one. :eek: Couldn’t they have said “the director of the department” or something like that? It’s a really poor choice of words to mention the head when talking about decapitation. :rolleyes:
Honestly. I moved to Chicago expecting veritable mountains of snow and all I’m getting is rain. Something is wrong with the world.
I was supposed to have a meeting with my potential thesis advisor today but I just realized today is actually a holiday. I don’t have any classes today anyway so to me it doesn’t make a difference, but I suppose the professor will not be in. ARGH. This thesis thing is such a hassle.
Something seems wrong with the universe when I move from Louisiana to Maryland and the weather is virtually identical in both palces. For a day or two while I was down there getting my stuff it was actually warmer up here than it was down there. Somebody out there has a sick sense of humor.
I want winter, dangit. I haven’t lived anywhere with much of a winter since I was a little kid. Bring on some snow! Or even just some cold! It’s supposed to get downright cold in a day or two, which is an improvement, but I want snow!
Good morning! It’s yukky and rainy and coooollllllldddd here! 39° with a wind chill of 31°. Tonight we’ll freeze, with a chance of sleet or ice storms! :eek:
Today’s a holiday? That would explain the scarcity of traffic on the way in. I know what today is, but it’s not a holiday for operations and back-end groups. Just the retail banks have today off.
DH is having a swell day. Yesterday, one or more of the tenants called a TV station and mentioned the lack of heat. So, naturally, the 11 PM news leads off with a live broadcast from outside the building and a handful of lies and half-statements. The news people paint the building management as ogres that have been allowing the lack of heat to continue for years and that they didn’t start giving out space heaters until after the news crew arrived.
They made no mention of how the previous owners left the heat unrepaired for years and that the current owners (the ones that hired DH) only owned the building since August or so of this year and that the heat was being worked on as part of the building-wide renovation. They also managed to skip right over that we brought in a couple dozen heaters a few weeks ago to tide people through the cold season, nor did they mention that the heaters and the electricity to run them were being provided for free.
The tenant even said how it’s been so dangerous because people have been using their ovens for heat, without mentioning that the ovens are all electric, so there’s no danger of carbon monoxide, as there would be with a gas oven.
Well, dunno ‘bout the mountains o’ snow…but we are usually good for a few solid snows. Not this year. Bad year! Bad winter! Like most perennial bulbs, I need at least 6 weeks of below freezing temps and SNOW. The rain can go f* itself. Ok, no more crabbies.
Let us help you write your thesis! How fun would that be!? Think of it as one loooong MMP…
gotsecretcode? --you bring up some nasty thoughts re the reporting of news. Sometimes I wonder if the Truth can ever be really known. Now my head hurts.
Car shop says that when I brought my car in last time, they fixed the front brakes. Those are not the ones NOW making the noise. I say that the brakes have never NOT made noise and that it was up to them to find the cause of the noise the first time around. I just know I’ll end up paying for this. Grrrr.
Good morning everyone. I am sitting at home in a sweatshirt and fleece lounge pants, caffinating. The kids are home too, but they’re still in bed, so it’s nice and quiet.
All you people whining about not having “winter”, can take mine, PUH-LEASE. I keep saying that, but no one is taking me up on it, so that must mean you really don’t want winter after all. That’s what I think.
They said the lows today were going to be 30 degrees F. Nope, it’s sixteen as I type this. They said it was going to warm up to the low forties for highs this week. However, tomorrow we will get “transitional” snow. :rolleyes: Yay! More snow to screw up an already crappy commute. I’m sick of the snow and ice.
Cute little joke, **rigs. ** Also, very true, isn’t it.
Bobbio, good on you for passing. What’s next, besides the EMT thingie. Are you eventually going to try for paramedic?
gotti, that really sucks. I know you say the building’s new management is trying, but people are basically impatient. It sounds as if the tenants got tired of waiting. I hope things improve soon.
I’m going to cruise here awhile, then I need to get cleaned up and clean the house too.
Weather in Houston: 39 degrees Amerrkun
Weather in Columbus: 55 degrees Amerrkun
In theory, tomorrow’s high will be 30. I’ll believe it when I feel it. Also, I hope it’s planning to dry out between now and then, because it’s way wet right now and I don’t want to think about the potential for slipping and sliding.
gotti, that news reporting really stinks. Hope the news plans to interview current management to get the other side of the story. I’d be contacting the news director or station management if I were the owners…
Back to my organizational endeavors. Also, I should consider lunch.
I don’t even know why I’m cheering - it just means wet gray nastiness I have to slog through to get to class - but the odd warm spell these past few weeks was disconcerting. And I don’t have anywhere I have to go today, so I shall enjoy the snow while I can.
gotti - Sadly, I know where you’re coming from. I was interviewed a few years back for an article in some tech print magazine about PCs and Windows. It struck me mostly as a puff piece, but I agreed to do the interview anyway. So he calls me up and we chat for a good hour while I recant some of my experiences during my time as a PC technician – problems I’ve encountered, what went into fixing them, how they happened and how they could be prevented, that sort of thing. Though I never thought to ask about my role in the final piece, I had assumed, naively, that I’d be written in as a person in the field with some level of expertise on solving the problems the proverbial men-on-the-street in the article had experienced. That was certainly the direction the interview took. In the end though, I had about two or three quotes, and all of them were spread over two paragraphs that painted me as just another baffled, where’s-the-any-key PC user who just couldn’t figure it all out, in an article that really amounted to little more than “Windows has bugs and they are confusing people.”
Granted, it’s nowhere near as bad as being painted as an lazy-bum employee for a slumlord, but it taught me a little something about how reporters and journalists can rope you into an interview for an article they paint one way, but which ends up being written quite another, and it’s none too flattering to you.
Hello, MMPers! Good OP, Rigslaughs men are definitely from Mars.
Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, some of whom may be still enjoying theirs, thanks to Dr. King’s birthday holiday. I’ve had a bad cold that just keeps hanging on, finding different ways to torment me. The current version is in my chest, making me cough and hack, and has also taken away my sense of taste. GRR! At least I was halfway able to sleep last night, after I took some HBP-ok cough syrup. Bleah, I hate colds!
I am feeling chipper right now, as I just showered and slathered on some nice smelling body lotion. LOL Guess the hot water and steam helped to clear my head too. Other than just resting up this past weekend, I spent (too) much time on my computer playing Super Granny 3. Anyone else played this game? Some levels you have to figure out how to get out of, you have to move boxes, etc. to open doors/gates. My head feels like it’s going to explode, trying to figure out those puzzles, but I guess it’s good brain activity … right? LOL
Okay, it’s 63 degrees F here … on January 15th. That is just so wrong, no wonder I’m sick! We are supposed to get more moderate temps by Wednesday, back in the 30s I guess. Global warming …
I seriously doubt if I’ll try for paramedic. I’m too old, and make too much money as an engineer; paramedics around here are all paid positions. I do want to do the heavy (technical in the lingo) rescues much as vehicle and collapsed buildings, and that’s EMT trade.
Plus, the EMT will be handy for dealing with VWife…
