This is like a freaking nightmare - I drive to work today and turn into my favorite doughnut shop and it is closed (I guess not enough State workers). So I figure someone will have SOMETHING at work, I mean good Lord, it's a State office building right?
So I get there and my free parking space that is loaned to me by a guy that can't use it for a while has a BMW parked in it - DAMN YOU - I get to work and my best friend co-worker that I have worked with for 25 years is packing as it's her last day - DAMN - and THEN . . . .the only snake I can find are GREEN BEAN CRISPS!
NO - another long time employee I see her last day was yesterday! A whole lot of knowledge is vacating State service.
Where are those Green Bean Crisps! Maybe I'll run up to Starbucks and get a $4 tiny doughnut.
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LOL - Remember that "alluenza" teenager who killed 4 people drunk driving but got off because he was too rich to no better? Then him and his mom went on the lamb hiding from authorities?
They were caught in Mexico after ordering Domino's Pizza with their phone. Here is the thing - they should be arrested just for ordering Domino's Pizza!
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Sleep experts are amazing that school districts are making students start school so early and it's ruining their education. School districts are making school children sleep depraved. Children under the age of 10 should NEVER start school before 8:30. School Districts are messing with children's biological clocks, their circadian rhythms which is linked to mental and physical problems including cognitive impairment, anxiety, weight gain, high blood pressure and diabetes.
At least according to the American Academy of Pediatrics - but what do THEY know.
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So the Eagles have to pay Chip Kelly 13.4 million dollars to go away - how can I get that sweet gig.
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Nuff said! HAPPY NEW YEAR - I'm going to be 'scoping new year party's across the world on Periscope. Look for it on a website as it's hard to find in the App stores.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
A new obsession!
At the moment I'm saying Columbus received 6.1 inches of snow-ish. Sort of hard to tell when my yard has no level spots and there are drifts everywhere. I'll have to venture out and take several readings. I got the driveway done last night but we got another inch.
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OK - We were watching the Colbert show and the inventor of Periscope was on, the Best App of the Year according to Apple.
DJ and I are hooked. Colbert created an account and loged on. There was a woman waiting for a bus with 6 people viewing and he asked he if she ever watched The Late Show. she said no and he said "Maybe you should tonight".
It's like live You Tube where people can stream ANYTHING live and can talk and answer questions to people watching. Totally addictive.
It's like live You Tube where people can stream ANYTHING live and can talk and answer questions to people watching. Totally addictive.
My very first contact was some family eating dinner in Rockford. yeah - wow - fascinating. Then I was looking around and some guy with 2 viewers in Green Bay was basically doing nothing - yup - this is AWESOME! I looked in Denver and a person who grows cannabis was touring her operation and this actually was pretty interesting.
On to Thailand and a couple is taking a Monks Tour through a temple. DJ gets into the action and is in London and SOMEHOW she is watching two drunk people in a bar. Moving on back to Denver is a party where they are live streaming the football game last night to 86 viewers from all over the world. . . . and it was 5 seconds BEFORE what I had on MY TV.
I went to Australia and a dude was cooking on the barbie talking about the native wildlife and what it was like in Australia (very hot). Went over to Hawaii and I was on a beach talking to some people there. Up to Alaska and a daughter , father and mom were having a chat. Did you know they each get paid $3000 a year just to live in Alaska? And there are really very very few woman up there.
I think next time I brew beer I'll stream it and maybe I'll stream our home brew club.
The app is hard to find in the App store - go online it's Periscope, NOT Periscope Pro or any other Periscope. Just "Periscope". I was even watching some people outside in Mongolia but I could not understand a thing.
This is the same app some woman was drinking and driving and someone recognized her location and she got busted LOL
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DJ has been REALLY sick for one week now EXCEPT Christmas, what a trooper. Christmas really took it out of her and she has been down for the count every since, but MAYBE a little better today.
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We are in for a cold stretch for a while now! Winter has come.
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Goldman Sachs is saying oil could tumble to $20 a barrel. The world ha so much oil it does not know what to do with it. They say Iran MAY be able to produce oil at $1 a barrel (that is $1.00). Saudi Arabia at about $15 a barrel.
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Gotta go do more shoveling. Carry on.
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Gotta go do more shoveling. Carry on.
Monday, December 28, 2015
Winter is here.
Here is what I think is going to happen - this will be MOSTLY a sleet/freezing rain event with snow mixed in just to make it pretty. There are 3 things going on. An arctic blast from the north, above the cold air is a warm conveyor belt of very humid, warm air and above that a powerful jet stream.
How all of these play together is what is making this a tough forecast. There is a ton of moisture all mixing together in different layers and then add in some really fierce wind! I think sleet will be the biggest player with a few inches accumulating but all beginning with snow as the arctic hits first and then the overlapping warm air hits.
Should be interesting - get the salt out. VERY windy!! I have my weather station updated every minute. We shall see when my wind anemometer freezes up today! Is there an over under with timing of the stoppage? Over Under 4PM. I say . . . . . .UNDER when freezing rain freezes my instruments.
KWICOLUM2
I watched a show on Netflix called "Somm" and what you need to go through to become a Master Sommelier. I worked at a few higher end wine shops in my life and thought I knew my way around wine (at one point in my life) but OMG!! These guys do a blind tasting and can nail down where a wine was created and the year. That is the easy part. They need to learn EVERYTHING about wine. Such as be able talk about each of the 3000 different varietals in Italy and why one is different then the next.
On average only 5 a year pass the testing. Very interesting show and very humbling.
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Here is something interesting with the economy. Big box stores saw a dip in sales with the internet taking over. But something that has happened is that big box stores had to hire tens of thousands of warehouse workers and those workers are higher paid then the people that work inside the boxes.
So instead of hiring low paid retail they had to hire higher paid warehouse employees. Good for the overall economy. I think buying stock in delivery companies might be a smart thing.
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I watched "Elizabeth" this weekend staring Cate Blanchett - fascinating and I had to go look up Elizabeth I. WOW - what an awesome Queen. The daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
What a totally cool woman.
I also watched a new SciFi Network show called The Expanse which is a space opera from the books of James S. A. Corey and am blown away. Excellent show and knowing the SciFi Network they will probably cancel it it's so good! But I'm along for the ride as long as it's on. You can get it on demand.
https://youtu.be/8X5gXIQmY-E
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Raise your hand if you broke your wrist on a hoverboard. I didn't but it seems ERs are packed with injuries! WHO KNEW!!!
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Remember Trump? He has been touting that wages are too high and we need to lower the minimum wage. Well - it seems he has changed his mind over the weekend and now says wages are too low after Bernie Sanders broadsided him saying his followers, mostly uneducated and lower paid people would like more money and it would be better for him to change his mind. He did.
Bernie said ""Look, many of Trump's supporters are a working class people and they're angry. And they're angry because they're working longer hours for lower wages. They're angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries,""
Bernie talks and Trump listens. I think Bernie is trying to steal some of Trumps people.
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Be careful out there!
How all of these play together is what is making this a tough forecast. There is a ton of moisture all mixing together in different layers and then add in some really fierce wind! I think sleet will be the biggest player with a few inches accumulating but all beginning with snow as the arctic hits first and then the overlapping warm air hits.
Should be interesting - get the salt out. VERY windy!! I have my weather station updated every minute. We shall see when my wind anemometer freezes up today! Is there an over under with timing of the stoppage? Over Under 4PM. I say . . . . . .UNDER when freezing rain freezes my instruments.
KWICOLUM2
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I watched a show on Netflix called "Somm" and what you need to go through to become a Master Sommelier. I worked at a few higher end wine shops in my life and thought I knew my way around wine (at one point in my life) but OMG!! These guys do a blind tasting and can nail down where a wine was created and the year. That is the easy part. They need to learn EVERYTHING about wine. Such as be able talk about each of the 3000 different varietals in Italy and why one is different then the next.
On average only 5 a year pass the testing. Very interesting show and very humbling.
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Here is something interesting with the economy. Big box stores saw a dip in sales with the internet taking over. But something that has happened is that big box stores had to hire tens of thousands of warehouse workers and those workers are higher paid then the people that work inside the boxes.
So instead of hiring low paid retail they had to hire higher paid warehouse employees. Good for the overall economy. I think buying stock in delivery companies might be a smart thing.
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I watched "Elizabeth" this weekend staring Cate Blanchett - fascinating and I had to go look up Elizabeth I. WOW - what an awesome Queen. The daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII.
What a totally cool woman.
I also watched a new SciFi Network show called The Expanse which is a space opera from the books of James S. A. Corey and am blown away. Excellent show and knowing the SciFi Network they will probably cancel it it's so good! But I'm along for the ride as long as it's on. You can get it on demand.
https://youtu.be/8X5gXIQmY-E
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Raise your hand if you broke your wrist on a hoverboard. I didn't but it seems ERs are packed with injuries! WHO KNEW!!!
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Remember Trump? He has been touting that wages are too high and we need to lower the minimum wage. Well - it seems he has changed his mind over the weekend and now says wages are too low after Bernie Sanders broadsided him saying his followers, mostly uneducated and lower paid people would like more money and it would be better for him to change his mind. He did.
Bernie said ""Look, many of Trump's supporters are a working class people and they're angry. And they're angry because they're working longer hours for lower wages. They're angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries,""
Bernie talks and Trump listens. I think Bernie is trying to steal some of Trumps people.
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Be careful out there!
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