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Mar. 10th, 2025 07:14 pmBack from Schenectady.
Weather: Was in the 60s for a bit?!?
COVID Levels (as of 6 March): 365 Bobcat-Robots.
Weather: Was in the 60s for a bit?!?
COVID Levels (as of 6 March): 365 Bobcat-Robots.
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Dec. 14th, 2024 08:28 amCoViD Levels: 600 Bobcat-Robots, and climbing.
(Though that's still better than last year.)*
Huh, I apparently haven't reported on these in, like, months. Though some of that was because I kept going to https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm and thinking "yup, still pretty low."
Weather: has been mostly pretty seasonal this week (i.e., cold, with something earlier in the week that was pretty close to being freezing fog)...EXCEPT for Wednesday, when it was unseasonably warm (60s) with high winds and rained buckets. Well, we needed the rain. Although I would have liked to not have it be raining sideways when I was trying to get to practice.
* Levels reported are as of 9 December. For comparison, CoViD Levels were at about 800 Bobcat-Robots as of 7 Dec. 2023, and about 1000 Bobcat-Robots on 5 December 2022.
(Though that's still better than last year.)*
Huh, I apparently haven't reported on these in, like, months. Though some of that was because I kept going to https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm and thinking "yup, still pretty low."
Weather: has been mostly pretty seasonal this week (i.e., cold, with something earlier in the week that was pretty close to being freezing fog)...EXCEPT for Wednesday, when it was unseasonably warm (60s) with high winds and rained buckets. Well, we needed the rain. Although I would have liked to not have it be raining sideways when I was trying to get to practice.
* Levels reported are as of 9 December. For comparison, CoViD Levels were at about 800 Bobcat-Robots as of 7 Dec. 2023, and about 1000 Bobcat-Robots on 5 December 2022.
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Nov. 21st, 2024 09:16 am...No, I should limit myself to a max. of ONE confusing subculture reference in the group chat at work per day.
ETA: Just blew like fifteen minutes seeing if there was a Symbol in Word for Insular autem.
A: No, there is not. There ARE signs for every archaic Greek letter you've never heard of, and for that one thing in Cyrillic that looks like the Appalachian Trail sign, which (μεν) is cool (δε) makes it extra frustrating that I can't find the h-with-a-tail I was looking for.
ETA: Just blew like fifteen minutes seeing if there was a Symbol in Word for Insular autem.
A: No, there is not. There ARE signs for every archaic Greek letter you've never heard of, and for that one thing in Cyrillic that looks like the Appalachian Trail sign, which (μεν) is cool (δε) makes it extra frustrating that I can't find the h-with-a-tail I was looking for.
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Oct. 2nd, 2024 09:37 amWe're in ... probably not quite a drought but we've gotten about 3 cm. of rain in the last month. ETA: OH, NO, that's a drought. Turns out we went 29 days with 0 rain. And then it rained an inch. Two weeks ago.
And meanwhile, North Carolina's flooded by Hurricane Helene, and most of Britain is under flood watches, with more rain expected.
"Celebrity West Oxfordshire farmer Jeremy Clarkson summed up the frustration by posting a string of five expletives followed by the word 'rain'."
And meanwhile, North Carolina's flooded by Hurricane Helene, and most of Britain is under flood watches, with more rain expected.
"Celebrity West Oxfordshire farmer Jeremy Clarkson summed up the frustration by posting a string of five expletives followed by the word 'rain'."
Today's like one of those 90s video games where they'd figured out 3D graphics but they sucked, so they just had everything shrouded in mist so that they didn't have to deal with vanishing points or ACTUALLY figuring out atmospheric perspective.
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Feb. 13th, 2024 04:40 pmThe predicted 6" of snow started as rain, and turned to snow in the late morning but never actually stuck to anything.
Another slow day at work.
Another slow day at work.
Weather: 60 degrees, rain, gale-force winds.** In short, a Nor'Easter...except that (a) it's come up from the southwest, like a very late hurricane, and (b) it's 30 degrees too warm.
Fuck global warming.
* 'Office Closure': a now largely obsolete category on our timecards.
** As in, We've just lost power for a fraction of a second twice in a row here.***
*** 'Here' being the actual office, where I am attending a holiday party. Which seems somewhat ironic in the circs.
ETA: Weather: Numerous downed trees in Belmont made my trip home (via the slash pile where the Lions Club had been selling Christmas trees), umm, interesting; but nothing had fallen on my house when I got home, so.
Party: I should have remembered to just bring Tupperware.
Fuck global warming.
* 'Office Closure': a now largely obsolete category on our timecards.
** As in, We've just lost power for a fraction of a second twice in a row here.***
*** 'Here' being the actual office, where I am attending a holiday party. Which seems somewhat ironic in the circs.
ETA: Weather: Numerous downed trees in Belmont made my trip home (via the slash pile where the Lions Club had been selling Christmas trees), umm, interesting; but nothing had fallen on my house when I got home, so.
Party: I should have remembered to just bring Tupperware.
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Oct. 5th, 2023 02:04 pmThis is the third straight day that the high temperature has been over 80.
Liveblogging the snowstorm
Jan. 29th, 2022 07:37 am7:35: Well, I guess that answers the question of “Are we going to lose power today?”
Now we have the new and exciting question,”when do we get it back?”
8:35: Apparently the answer is, NOW!
And so now the question becomes, "but for how long?"
( ETA: )
Now we have the new and exciting question,”when do we get it back?”
8:35: Apparently the answer is, NOW!
And so now the question becomes, "but for how long?"
( ETA: )Okay, we've got wine, we've got the ingredients for a bunch of baked goods, and we've got a sincere hope that the power doesn't go out tomorrow.
(Also, FB is reminding me that this is almost exactly the seven-year anniversary of the previous snowpocalypse.)*
Oh, and: hopefully scheduled to move the heavy stuff into my new apartment on Feb. 5!
* Yeah, looks like it was Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. I think I posted this account the day after.
(Also, FB is reminding me that this is almost exactly the seven-year anniversary of the previous snowpocalypse.)*
Oh, and: hopefully scheduled to move the heavy stuff into my new apartment on Feb. 5!
* Yeah, looks like it was Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. I think I posted this account the day after.
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Aug. 22nd, 2021 03:11 pmCalled (≈conducted) a long(ish) thing while ringing this morning!*
(As you can see from above, Tropical Storm Henri decided to go to Rhode Island and then continue his habit of circling places by heading northwest before a (predicted) turn east to pass to the north of us. So we're getting rain and wind, but not really extreme levels of either, and not necessarily at the same time.)
( Explanation of ringing terms )
(As you can see from above, Tropical Storm Henri decided to go to Rhode Island and then continue his habit of circling places by heading northwest before a (predicted) turn east to pass to the north of us. So we're getting rain and wind, but not really extreme levels of either, and not necessarily at the same time.)
( Explanation of ringing terms )The things I always forget: that eight inches of snow means PILES of snow several feet deep, and that cross country skiing is frequently an extremely sweaty business.
I went for a walk last night around 9:30, because I hadn't been outside all day. Thin cloud, so Jupiter and Saturn were hidden, but there wasn't that sense of impending storm that you sometimes get; and nothing was coming down. The wind gusted in a way that I associate with unquiet summer nights; sometimes, then, it's followed by torrential thunderstorms, other times the trees just sway a bit for a few hours. The snow must have started shortly after I came in.
I hauled myself out of bed at what, by recent standards, was a remarkably reasonable hour, ate breakfast, and did a half-ass job of shoveling the sidewalk in front of the house. I didn't even try to do the driveway. There is more shoveling in my future.
The antiphon for today - Come, and teach us the way of prudence - is particularly poignant this year.
I went for a walk last night around 9:30, because I hadn't been outside all day. Thin cloud, so Jupiter and Saturn were hidden, but there wasn't that sense of impending storm that you sometimes get; and nothing was coming down. The wind gusted in a way that I associate with unquiet summer nights; sometimes, then, it's followed by torrential thunderstorms, other times the trees just sway a bit for a few hours. The snow must have started shortly after I came in.
I hauled myself out of bed at what, by recent standards, was a remarkably reasonable hour, ate breakfast, and did a half-ass job of shoveling the sidewalk in front of the house. I didn't even try to do the driveway. There is more shoveling in my future.
The antiphon for today - Come, and teach us the way of prudence - is particularly poignant this year.
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Oct. 30th, 2020 09:01 amIt's currently snowing, in a pretty determined fashion.
What does this portend for the winter? Who knows!
What does this portend for this afternoon? Shoveling!
What does this portend for the winter? Who knows!
What does this portend for this afternoon? Shoveling!
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Sep. 21st, 2020 08:33 amFor the umpteenth straight day, today is cool and clear: classic Fall weather.
I'd be overjoyed except of course that it means we're officially in a drought now.
(Also, my skin REALLY hates it.)
(Also, I woke up at like ass AM and lay awake for half an hour or more panicking about drought, catastrophic climate change, and Torger Vedeler's Layers.)
Can we have murder hornets instead?
I'd be overjoyed except of course that it means we're officially in a drought now.
(Also, my skin REALLY hates it.)
(Also, I woke up at like ass AM and lay awake for half an hour or more panicking about drought, catastrophic climate change, and Torger Vedeler's Layers.)
Can we have murder hornets instead?
Man, this is some weird weather.
(General state of the weather recently: Too ^%$%*&O&( hot.)
(General state of the weather recently: Too ^%$%*&O&( hot.)
Just came back from a walk, which was very nearly a mistake, given that it is currently lightning-ing so much that I can't tell how close it is, because by the time you have time to count, there's been another flash of lightning, and then another after that...
This morning Iwent down to the Catholic church finally got off my arse and went to a BLM protest. It was, I hasten to add, a socially-distanced protest, and not downtown: sixty or so people, a good percentage of them children, at the intersection of Rindge and Alewife Brook Parkway, all with signs. I briefly talked with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gaudior, whose post had alerted me that this was happening.
Anyway, we all held signs and waved at cars, many of whom honked and waved back enthusiastically, and zero of whom (that I saw) reacted negatively. I don't know how much good we did, out on the outskirts of the People's Republic of Cambridge. But at least I tried to do something.
Apartment Status: Staying in Belmont - if our landlord will actually send us the dam' lease.
This morning I
gaudior, whose post had alerted me that this was happening.Anyway, we all held signs and waved at cars, many of whom honked and waved back enthusiastically, and zero of whom (that I saw) reacted negatively. I don't know how much good we did, out on the outskirts of the People's Republic of Cambridge. But at least I tried to do something.
Apartment Status: Staying in Belmont - if our landlord will actually send us the dam' lease.
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May. 9th, 2020 08:08 amIt is indeed snowing, albeit wetly and in a very half-@$$ed fashion.
ETA: Our resident meteorologist/bellringer, asked about this bizarritude, reported:
"Yay spring! The whole atmosphere is more turbulent in the spring, so we get pockets of warm tropical air moving north (like last weekend) and pockets of cold polar air moving south. This was just a boring spring until now, when we've had both extremes in a week. Good stuff (I say as I'm baking bread to heat up my apartment). Should be back to more average weather by Monday."
Anyway, it's now sunny, though still a frigid 42, so I'm going biking.
(Average number of new COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts per day this week: 1497.)
ETA: Our resident meteorologist/bellringer, asked about this bizarritude, reported:
"Yay spring! The whole atmosphere is more turbulent in the spring, so we get pockets of warm tropical air moving north (like last weekend) and pockets of cold polar air moving south. This was just a boring spring until now, when we've had both extremes in a week. Good stuff (I say as I'm baking bread to heat up my apartment). Should be back to more average weather by Monday."
Anyway, it's now sunny, though still a frigid 42, so I'm going biking.
(Average number of new COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts per day this week: 1497.)
What with working from home, and trying to limit trips to the grocery store, I have not had occasion to drive my car in several weeks.
So it probably shouldn't have surprised me when I realized on Tuesday that the battery was dead.
Roommate M. was kind enough to assist me in jumpstarting it yesterday, and I drove it around the block a few times, and then, emboldened, for a couple of exits on Rte. 2. Initially, it was making some somewhat alarming noises, but by the end these had ceased; and it managed being turned off and on again once I got home with no problems.
This morning, the battery is dead again.( Read more... )
So it probably shouldn't have surprised me when I realized on Tuesday that the battery was dead.
Roommate M. was kind enough to assist me in jumpstarting it yesterday, and I drove it around the block a few times, and then, emboldened, for a couple of exits on Rte. 2. Initially, it was making some somewhat alarming noises, but by the end these had ceased; and it managed being turned off and on again once I got home with no problems.
This morning, the battery is dead again.
( Read more... )
