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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 1

Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"

Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.

GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 2

bitbucket-25253 (2/16/2012)
SQL Kiwi (2/16/2012)
Are the posted articles[/url] getting worse?
Just shows that you must read the comments posted on any published article.

I may be missing something. Do the comments on that one actually help?

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

SQL Kiwi (2/16/2012)
Are the posted articles[/url] getting worse?

Dunno about worse, but definitely shorter

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

Revenant (2/16/2012)
Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"
Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.

Indeed. It just stopped freezing a few days ago. Snow is almost melted everywhere.

The coldest was about -20 celsius at night and -12 celsius during the day. I once spent 25 minutes trying to start my car so I could get to work. (stupid American car :-P)

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D.Oc SSCrazy Points: 2875 More actions · Answer 5

Koen Verbeeck (2/16/2012)
Revenant (2/16/2012)
Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"
Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.
Indeed. It just stopped freezing a few days ago. Snow is almost melted everywhere.
The coldest was about -20 celsius at night and -12 celsius during the day. I once spent 25 minutes trying to start my car so I could get to work. (stupid American car :-P)

Same situation, few days ago it was -25C (or -13F) and it is still 50cm (20 inches) of snow around me and no intention of melting any time soon 😀

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 6

D.Oc (2/16/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (2/16/2012)
Revenant (2/16/2012)
Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"
Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.
Indeed. It just stopped freezing a few days ago. Snow is almost melted everywhere.
The coldest was about -20 celsius at night and -12 celsius during the day. I once spent 25 minutes trying to start my car so I could get to work. (stupid American car :-P)
Same situation, few days ago it was -25C (or -13F) and it is still 50cm (20 inches) of snow around me and no intention of melting any time soon 😀

You should go inside!

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 7

It's 79F here today. Beautiful weather. Sucks to be stuck indoors.

(Yes, I'm rubbing it in.)

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 8

28 C, gorgeous summer day, and a late afternoon storm to cool things down for the evening.

Gail Shaw
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 9

Wow. People really do talk about the weather around the water cooler, don't they?

@=)

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004356 More actions · Answer 10

Koen Verbeeck (2/16/2012)
(stupid American car :-P)

BWWAAA-HAAAA!!!! They're made from mostly foreign parts. 😀

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (2/16/2012)
28 C, gorgeous summer day, and a late afternoon storm to cool things down for the evening.

Please pack it and ship it, I could use some.

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 12

Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Evil Kraig F (2/15/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/15/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/15/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/15/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/15/2012)
Brandie
go here
http://originalchocolatebar.com/newintro.html
HA! That's exactly what I need. Thanks. @=)
Now, now be honest is it the chocolate or the Martinis or maybe a bite of chocolate washed down with a sip of the Martini ?
Be honest?
It's the drunk guy at the bar bragging about his IT skills who I am going to knock over the head, drag back to my workplace, and put on the phone with my customer.
Let him deal with the problem. I've got a date at the beach!
That should seriously help the client...
Oh? Are you planning to be the drunk guy at the bar? @=)

Oh for the love of god no, please no. I started as over the phone helpdesk software support on everything from Lotus Notes to MS Office/Access to <insert random off the shelf software here>. I would have to be on a drinking binge to ever go back to that pressure cooker.

Sorry if I've been AWOL a bit lately, I've got a massive project chewing up my mental capacity lately. When I'm tired my temper gets short so I've been trying to avoid the posts that would make me reach for a sledgehammer. 😉

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 13

GSquared (2/16/2012)
bitbucket-25253 (2/16/2012)
SQL Kiwi (2/16/2012)
Are the posted articles[/url] getting worse?
Just shows that you must read the comments posted on any published article.
I may be missing something. Do the comments on that one actually help?

No. Should we be asking 2Are teh posted comments getting worse?"

But I've seen worse articles. And both seen and written worse comments.

Tom

Ron McCullough SSC Guru Points: 63877 More actions · Answer 14

Koen Verbeeck (2/16/2012)
Revenant (2/16/2012)
Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"
Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.
Indeed. It just stopped freezing a few days ago. Snow is almost melted everywhere.
The coldest was about -20 celsius at night and -12 celsius during the day. I once spent 25 minutes trying to start my car so I could get to work. (stupid American car :-P)

Hye hey I drive a desil turbo changed Mercedes ... madie in Germany - try starting that one in the Cleveland area ... had a block heater installed so have to plug it in each night if I want to get going in the AM

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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Revenant SSC-Forever Points: 42467 More actions · Answer 15

bitbucket-25253 (2/16/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (2/16/2012)
Revenant (2/16/2012)
Grant Fritchey (2/16/2012)
Stefan Krzywicki (2/16/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (2/16/2012)
Can I just say, I hate that nothing dies in Florida? For those of you experiencing winter, please send snow in my direction. I'm in desperate need of something to stop the crap from blooming. I can barely breathe.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/allergies/weather/32224?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=&from=allergy_welcome
@sob!
There's no help for you from Boston this year. A friend of mine just took pictures of the daffodils coming up in her yard.
Yeah, and I'm taking the Scouts on our "Winter Survival" campout this weekend w/o snow and with high temperatures near 50. More like "Late Fall Survival"
Take them to Europe. Germany, The Czech Republic and Poland are still freezing. A week ago it was so bad that trains were not running because their diesel fuel froze solid.
Indeed. It just stopped freezing a few days ago. Snow is almost melted everywhere.
The coldest was about -20 celsius at night and -12 celsius during the day. I once spent 25 minutes trying to start my car so I could get to work. (stupid American car :-P)
Hye hey I drive a desil turbo changed Mercedes ... madie in Germany - try starting that one in the Cleveland area ... had a block heater installed so have to plug it in each night if I want to get going in the AM

You can use the WWII-vintage method of draining the oil from the engine every night, keeping it indoors, heating it in the morning, pouring it back in and keeping the engine running all day. 😉