General rule of thumb is 10" of snow is 1" of water. Of course, it does vary.
One acre would be 43,560 square feet x 144 square inches per foot x 2.4 inches deep = 15,054,336 cubic inches. One gallon of water = 231 cubic inches.
65,170 gallons of water.
8.36 pounds per gallon.
544,823.6 pounds.
272 tons of water.
Verifying by another means;
“It defined by the volume of water necessary to cover one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot. It is equal to exactly 43,560 cubic feet, or to 325,851 U.S. gallons, or exactly 1233.48184 cubic meters.”
You’re snow is 1/5th of an acre foot of water, which is the number I gave above, 65,170 gallons.
Or about three times as bad as I’d thought! My back hurts.
Honestly, though: how can you not be awed by numbers like that? Hundreds of tons of water per acre, and the storm blanketed entire STATES. How the heck do clouds stay up in the sky when they weigh so damn much?
Friday, my husband’s car died on the interstate on his way home. We got it towed to a nearby mechanic.
Monday, they take a look at it. The engine was 4 quarts low on oil. And it’s dead.
Did I mention I had to take the day off work to stay home with a feverish toddler? Who’s still sick today?
And my dog has a mass in her throat that’s been growing slowly for the past 6+ months but her condition is rapidly deteriorating these past few days. Having a hard time breathing, won’t eat, seems weak.
I would say that this week can’t get any worse, but it’s not even 10:00 AM on Tuesday and I don’t wanna tempt the fates.
Not really a rant, per-se, as much as a humorous / frustrating observation.
We have to submit 300+ individual filings to the government. We were provided the paperwork by a third party, but they neglected to fill in two blanks, and attach one sheet of paper.
We will be submitting these electronically, and so we have a temp completing the two blanks, and then attaching the sheet. From there, he scans the document and e-mails it to me to submit.
Right now, his process is, take a file, complete the blanks, attach the paper, walk across the building to the scanner to scan it, and then e-mail it to me. He then walks all the way back to his desk to do the next file.
I’m waiting for him to realize that it’d be a lot faster and easier for him to complete multiple, if not all files at his desk, and then take all the completed files to the scanner, so he can e-mail all of them, versus walking back and forth 300+ times.
He could be trying to get lots of steps in for some app on his phone. Or he may just like walking and this gives him a good excuse while still working.
Hey Outback Restaurants, take your “Get 50% off every 4th visit” offer and stuff it.
Last night I went with my family to Outback and had a very tasty meal and the service was great–gave a nice tip. No complaints about last night. But the waiter gave me a little folding card that had the “50%” offer emblazoned across the front, and he offered to bring the manager over so I could sign up on their iPad right away. Maybe not…let me see…
The little pamphlet contained so many loopholes that it’s a wonder why they don’t just sell gift cards that expire in 90 days, but perhaps they already do that.
As the offer is written, if you are very careful you can max out your discount to a grand total of 20% after spending 80 dollars on four separate visits ($100 spent, get $20 back on 4th meal), not counting gratuity, all within 6 months.
50% off? Only up to $20…in a family restaurant where the bill for 4 will be close to $100.
4th visit? Only counting visits where you spend >$20.
Visits expire within 90 days. The “50% off” offer expires within 90 days of earning it.
They have gone out of their way to maximize the chances that customers will not get what they are promising on the front of the pamphlet, meanwhile gaining that juicy personal data provided by customers who join the program.
They didn’t really hide this stuff, it was in pretty large print, but I still get upset when I see nonsense like this. Seriously, does Outback think that a customer will arrive for their 4th visit and smile happily when they suddenly see that 50 percent really only means 20 percent or less? No, this is a program designed to make their customers feel like chumps.
Had an ER visit a little while back. My insurance paid for most of it, but i got the bills for out-of-pocket expenses this week. It was actually three separate bills: one for the ER itself, one for the doctor, and one for the imaging service that took the x-ray.
I don’t know why hospitals can’t send out a single bill, and distribute the money internally. Just about every other business in the world manages to do that. When my car goes into the shop, i don’t get separate bills for the oil change and the brake pads, or separate bills for each individual mechanic. My dentist doesn’t charge me separately for the hygienist who cleans my teeth.
But whatever; that’s not my main rant.
Each of the bills had an option to pay online, and being a 21st-century type of guy, that’s what i did. Two of the three went fine, but the third one couldn’t accept a payment. I kept getting errors, clearly related to the website, when i put in my patient number. This first happened on Monday, then on Tuesday. Finally, on Wednesday afternoon, i concluded that it might be a problem on my end, so i called them and explained the issue.
The woman on the phone apologized, and said that they had been having problems with their payment portal since Sunday, and that IT was working on it.
What the fuck? Three and a half days, and they can’t get it working? And, even worse, no-one takes the 30 seconds it would have required to either deactivate the payment page altogether, or put up a notice telling their customers that online payments cannot be accepted at this time.
Speaking of hospital bills… I got one last month from the hospital that my audiologist is affiliated with. The bill was for some hearing aid part that I’m pretty sure I actually paid for out-of-pocket during my visit. I kept meaning to call them to find out if I was being billed twice for the same thing, kept forgetting, and as the due date drew near I decided “screw it, it’s only $5, I’ll just pay it.”
The bill had a URL for paying online, so I went to the website. It wanted me to enter my user ID that they were supposed to have sent me in a letter when I first made the appointment. I don’t remember ever getting such a letter, but then I saw they had a link that said “Request an ID electronically.” So I clicked that, and went to some page asking me for all this demographic information and explaining that after submitting, I could expect a letter with my user ID in 7-10 days.
WTF? First of all, this is the first time I’ve ever had a medical bill where I couldn’t go to the website and just enter the invoice number to pay it. And second, what’s the point of requesting a user ID electronically if I still have to wait a week for it to be sent snail-mail? You can’t verify the info and email me an ID, or just generate a temporary one so I can log in and pay my bill?
So I wound up writing a check and dropping it in the mail. Yeesh.
There’s just something about snowy weather that makes some people drive like assholes, isn’t there? Today all the schools and universities had a delayed opening though it was still lightly snowing when I left, so the roads were a bit dodgy, but not too bad. I came around a corner, and saw a school bus picking up middle school kiddos, lights flashing, stop sign out, three cars dutifully stopped behind it, and I stopped at the legally designated distance. And then the jerk behind me decided this would be an excellent time to pass into the space between me and the bus, over the double yellow lines, scaring the crap out of everyone watching, including a parent on my side of the road who was waiting in their driveway with her five or six-year-old for the elementary bus that’d soon arrive. They were probably terrified because the car whipped right by them in the snow.
Who the hell does something like that? It’s bad enough when the lead car doesn’t stop for the bus, but to illegally pass too?? I hope the bus driver reported them.
Irritating day. Tech difficulties that got us sprung early from work, manageable.
Problems started on arrival at the light rail station, to discover that almost half the train line was non-functional (later found out general area power outages were involved). Very crowded bus bridge between stations resulted, getting more crowded at every stop, plus a very loudmouth guy with loads of attitude. Finally got to where trains were running, to find that the train was very short, so more crowding and still had loudmouth to endure. Get off train, 15-minute wait for bus in foul weather. And loudmouth got on the same bus I did!
I recalled an incident in this area from a few years back, so I did a search. The number of hits was disturbing. Apparently it happens with great frequency – on the fucking right.
Gran’s back in the hospital, and it’s not looking good. She’s been having A-fib since Friday and she’s had a couple of mini-strokes on top of that. She’s very weak, can’t stand up or do much of anything on her own.
When she’s not having one of the episodes she’s still very lucid and at least this time my family is actually listening to her and not acting like a bunch of bickering toddlers. Gran said “no way” to any surgery and the family agreed. She’s nearly 90 and has had cancer for the last five years. She’s done with doctors and hospitals. She’s ready to go out on her own terms.
It sucks, she’s my last living grandparent. She helped raise me when I was a kid. I certainly don’t want to lose her but I understand and agree with her decisions. She’s a grown woman and still mentally sharp so if she says she’s done she’s done.
I took the day off today because I got no sleep last night and have a migraine as a result. I spent a good chunk of the day yesterday with her but I haven’t gone to see her yet today because the family says she’s resting. I’m just kind of sitting here waiting for the phone to ring…
A girl I went to school with is organising a class reunion. All fine, except she’s made the post Friends Only. And is apparently complaining that only 20 people have said yes - well, that’ll be coz only 20 of the people on your friends list went to your school? The rest of us, can’t see the post, even when we’re tagged in it (like me) unless you set it to public or friends-of-friends, dipshit.
Spent all night Saturday night dreaming about being homeless. Have never ever dreamt that before in my life, even during the dark days.
Last night I dreamt that I went through this tunnel under a creek and ended up in a land not unlike Game of Thrones. Which I haven’t watched. Ended up on a boat going down that creek when we were attacked. Half a dozen or more arrows hitting each person at once. I got under the boat and survived the attack. Then I’m in their castle under siege, aiding with the defense when it struck me that I came there as a visitor from another world, with no idea this shit was going on. I had no interest in dying there and I’m wondering if I can get out of here and back to that tunnel.
