It’s 1000 and it just started snowing again. SWMBO went on into the office today, as she usually does on Wednesdays, so I hope she doesn’t have any trouble on the road. Weather outlook for the rest of the day (hell, the rest of the week!) doesn’t look good. Y’all have got to remember that we don’t usually get a lot of snow around here. Mostly rain. When it gets to staying around 20 degrees that’s pretty cold for us. And a couple of inches of snow pretty much shuts everything down.
Ah, now the wind is blowing also. Which means we’ll probably lose the power. Cool. I just love sitting around the house unable to do the stuff I normally do cause I got no power! But I get a lot of reading done when that happens…
@ 1530: Power hasn’t gone out so far. Been snowing off and on all day. Snowing pretty good (for us) right now though. Been trying to video when it does snow and will try to make a time-lapse movie of it. Don’t know how that’ll turn out…

Well, Phil’s coming over to watch the next Star Trek movie…

It really did snow here last Friday night. Started snowing around 2000 or so and by the time I went to bed (around 2300) the snow was piled just over 2nd knuckle deep on the back of my truck. Cool! But quite a bit of it was gone by Saturday morning and the rest turned to ice. And, so far, it’s remained ice. Damned difficult driving on some of these back roads. I really like my 4-wheel drive though.

Not much else going on around here. Just trying to stay warm. According to the news folks this is the coldest weather (or coldest run of weather) we’ve had up here since 1990. The year 1990; not the hour. I seem to remember an inch thick layer of ice over everything (and I mean everything) winter 1996. Hmmm. Supposed to start snowing again tomorrow evening. We’ll see. Keeping the woodstove filled is getting to be a real pain in the butt! Especially from bedtime until I get up between 0530-0630.
News says that President Bush is going to make the bailout to the Big 3. Again I have mixed feelings. Or still. I hope he forces the UAW workers/members to take a pay cut and the companies to do some major restructuring before they get a cent. Probably not though. I’m still anti-UAW though. Assholes. I think I’ll set up a new poll: Do we still need Unions?
Oh yeah. Ordered a new video card for my computer the other night. GeForce 9500 with 2 hdmi & 1 s-video output. Should be here by the 19th. I hope. Should make my flight sims look/work better (which is really the reason I bought it). And I figure when I upgrade my computer again I can turn this one into the MediaServer and use that hdmi or s-video output on whatever tv we wind up buying.

Been watching the Star Trek movies with Phil on Wednesdays & Saturdays. Kind of nice seeing them all again. Still haven’t managed to get on the schedule of “classes” I set up last week though so I’m lucky if I get anything done. Started to yesterday then Phil showed up (unannounced) and asked me to help him get some wood from a neighbors house to his house. That took an hour.

 

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Let’s see how well that works.

Sometimes (well, most times) I think these weather persons on tv haven’t a clue. But then I realize that what they say will probably happen DOES happen over Seattle way. We might as well be in a completely foreign weather area. Wind storm did come through yesterday and we did lose the power for about 2 hours. SWMBO and I started up a couple of our bottled gas lamps (bright little suckers!) and read for awhile. Was nice. Power finally came back on and mostly stayed on for the rest of the night. Flickered a couple of times enough to reset the MediaServer (which I really have to get a UPS for!).

Not much else going on. Still waiting on the Snow that’s supposed to fall around here tonight and tomorrow. Phil & I went out to the property today and cut another truckbed full of wood for him. Was nice out there.

Listening to the news lately one has to wonder What The Hell Is Wrong With Those UAW Assholes?! Guess them saying that they’d do anything to help the current financial crisis get better was a load of crap. This not being willing to take a pay cut to help their companies out really sucks. What they’ve done for me is make me decide that I will never (I really mean never) buy another car from any of the "Big 3" nor any vehicle where the UAW is involved. The Toyota Tundra is looking pretty good. I think everyone ought to let the UAW and the "Big 3" know how much this sucks. I really hope they do not get the bailout funds. But it looks like Prez Bush is going to approve the "loan" anyway. Dickhead.

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Hey! Just looked out the window and it’s actually snowing our there. Cool. Now to see how much we get. SWMBO wants enough to fall that they’ll cancel church tomorrow but not enough to stop her from singing in the Christmas show in the same building tomorrow evening. ???

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