FTS, it's friday. 10 more hours......
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FTS, it's friday. 10 more hours......
Good morning Monkies! Today is going to be a good day, yesterday I bit off more than I could handle including ace bandages with old school barb hooks. Those thinks are barbaric. Today I plan on discontinuing valium cold turkey!!! I'm super pimp like that plus it has no impact I can groove on.
have a great one peeps.
Balmy here this morning, with occasional light freezing rain. At least it's not south of zero and blowing like hell... I need to get outside - I have been hibernating for three days. During the three days, my Windows app to read .loc files and create .gpx files based on them has progressed nicely. Now I need to figure out to tell Visual Studio to put the project on GitHub.
So yeah, we're definitely getting some decent snow today. Took a sick/snow day with the little one but still had to get up and snowblow the driveway so the wifey could get the van out. They're estimating for us to get up to a foot by the end of the day.
Wintry mess here. Poorly drained streets make for interesting commute in Boston, stepping into 4" of dirty slush at road crossings sucks. Work seems similarly messy, gotta tell boss things he will not like.
contemplating a mug of coffee and not motivated to finish it and head off to work, go figure, Last day of nice weather before the rain returns
snowing here. there's barely 3" of snow on the ground, and yet they've cancelled the school buses... 
I can understand they would cancel them in the afternoon once the snow has really accumulated and the "mixed" precipitation finally hits us, but for now, it's still pretty mellow out there...
I can understand they would cancel them in the afternoon once the snow has really accumulated and the "mixed" precipitation finally hits us, but for now, it's still pretty mellow out there...
Few inches of snow on the ground, heavy rain and freezing temps. Glad I don't have to go anywhere and that electrons flow through my homes conductors. High of 55 today so this shit is going to go away quickly.
Mornin!
Wife flies in this evening. It'll be nice to have her back.
Wife flies in this evening. It'll be nice to have her back.
Considering your nationality, I assume you work for some kind of acrobat troop?
They are definitely days when I feel like a clown and wish I chose a career of a lion tamer instead.
'Morning. Crappy roads this morning. Dog wasn't happy about going outside on frozen snow.
The dog is lucky that the snow isn't boiling.
We received just over an inch of snow here. Perfect snowy slush stuff on the side streets for a little slideways action.
But, I spent an hour in 2nd gear on the way to work because everyone is in panic mode on the freeways. Snow was going straight into the hood scoop and creating some steam from the engine/intercooler; first time I've seen that since owning the car (outside of it steaming while washing the car) and had me worried, but the coolant tempt didn't really budge beyond its normal range.
Also, I don't think I actually fell asleep last night. WTF mate? Tossed and turned all night, right up until my alarm went off. I think I'm leaving early today because of the "snow".
But, I spent an hour in 2nd gear on the way to work because everyone is in panic mode on the freeways. Snow was going straight into the hood scoop and creating some steam from the engine/intercooler; first time I've seen that since owning the car (outside of it steaming while washing the car) and had me worried, but the coolant tempt didn't really budge beyond its normal range.
Also, I don't think I actually fell asleep last night. WTF mate? Tossed and turned all night, right up until my alarm went off. I think I'm leaving early today because of the "snow".
Extra day off was nice, another day of riding! We had a spring weekend so I rode all three days to celebrate. I sure hope to get back on my skis. There is a 50k race the first weekend in March I was thinking of doing. Not if there isn't new snow!!!!
....aaand more doom and gloom in the office today. '16 sucks!
Morning. Kill me please. Second cup of coffee on the desk and I haven't drank more than tea in over 6 years. Got in last night at 1:30am and Haley woke me at 5:30am. I'm now at a combined 19 hours of sleep since Wednesday night.
Reconnected with a lot of friends that I haven't seen since college. Big part of the conversation was about settling with life and not being willing to. I'm registering for my CFP at lunch and going to get my shit back together. I've got a lot of studying and growth to do, and another 40lbs to lose since I got fat again. Looking at options back in the Bay Area, because living life is more important that existing. I need to start living for myself, so I can live better for Haley. Go figure how much a few buzzed conversations with old friends who refuse to can change...
I woke up Sunday at 6:30am and didn't go to sleep until 5:30am because I stayed up for an additional 3 hours discussing things with one of those friends. Then proceeded to wake up at 8:30am to catch my flight home.
Now comes time to think. A lot about what I want to make of my life, for Haley.
Reconnected with a lot of friends that I haven't seen since college. Big part of the conversation was about settling with life and not being willing to. I'm registering for my CFP at lunch and going to get my shit back together. I've got a lot of studying and growth to do, and another 40lbs to lose since I got fat again. Looking at options back in the Bay Area, because living life is more important that existing. I need to start living for myself, so I can live better for Haley. Go figure how much a few buzzed conversations with old friends who refuse to can change...
I woke up Sunday at 6:30am and didn't go to sleep until 5:30am because I stayed up for an additional 3 hours discussing things with one of those friends. Then proceeded to wake up at 8:30am to catch my flight home.
Now comes time to think. A lot about what I want to make of my life, for Haley.
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Lots of rain here. Wish it was snow.
Lots of rain here. Wish it was snow.
Sounds like an intense hoodie-moment to me. With regard to the Bay Area and quality of life: really? I get the weather. I get the geography. With the cost of housing, though, it seems a perfect setup to get on the rat-treadmill and run oneself to death.
I have to agree with Toshi on this, quality of life is hard to find let alone buy. What your daughter needs most from you is you. Spending time in traffic, working 60 hour a week and eating out too much won't be how she remembers you.
It would be cool to find a small town that needs your skills so that you could find balance between income and cost of living. Buy yourself an Edward Jones...
It would be cool to find a small town that needs your skills so that you could find balance between income and cost of living. Buy yourself an Edward Jones...
I'd place most of the blame on Highlands Ranch.
Monday was the best ski day of the weekend. A few inches softened things up nicely and N/NW facing trees were nice and creamy...
Day off to see if my shins might heal up a bit, then a vendor ski day at Vail tomorrow that I guess I'll get up early for.
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///More ///M Factor.
It's worth pointing out as well, that you can't ever really "go back". You're in all likelihood chasing something that doesn't actually exist. Take it from someone who had a serious post-death existential crisis, it's up to you to figure out how to make "the now" work. Chasing something is being on the rat-treadmill.
and on a lighter note.... snowmaggedon is finally here: we've been sent home. Well, I have anyways. My wife has not yet received the message and she has the car, so it does me little good to leave early. 
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Did your bong shed and whiskys wagon both go offline at the same time?
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Send some this way! Its been sprinkling snow here all day, but nothing is actually accumulating.and on a lighter note.... snowmaggedon is finally here: we've been sent home. Well, I have anyways. My wife has not yet received the message and she has the car, so it does me little good to leave early.
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@rockofullr my whisky wagon is permanently offline. I'd like to keep it that way.
Have you considered buying a tequila truck?@rockofullr my whisky wagon is permanently offline. I'd like to keep it that way.
Got to play a Moog synth in person. Holy BASS explosion. Nothing can prepare you for the sound of analog synth bass in person. No clips I've heard can do it justice thanks to sampling rates and compression. Now I've got to do some plotting.
Sideways rain here. Much moar to come in a few hours.
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I dunno about @stoney but I'm partially convinced that mine was, albeit early, and certainly compounded by my very real and shockingly traumatic brush with mortality. You can't help but reevaluate your priorities and direction after something like that.
Nyquist theorem and 20 kHz hearing limit falls apart in face of mighty Moog? There are plenty of uncompressed digital formats as with CDs (44.1 kHz)...
Fine. No commonly available streaming clips and samples. YouTube and Soundcloud just don't cut it. Even the clips posted on the Moog site via Soundcloud couldn't replicate what I heard in person. I'm sure there recordings that so it justice. And now back to your regularly scheduled literal hyperbole.