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Squonkamaniac
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Yeah, well, today's temp was the "normal" one. All that extra cold shit was part of the evil Siberians and their intense cold air mass (i.e., arctic air mass). :eek: :D
Colder than hell in many places besides SD.....MANY are setting record lows
 

Draconigena

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Yeah, I saw that. Just about everywhere east of the Rockies setting record lows, with some places being coldest in the past 100 years. Do you suppose maybe some of those dumb asses might be getting a clue that there is no man-made global warming?
 

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Yeah, I saw that. Just about everywhere east of the Rockies setting record lows, with some places being coldest in the past 100 years. Do you suppose maybe some of those dumb asses might be getting a clue that there is no man-made global warming?
Actually I don't Rich....there is way to much money in it.
 

Draconigena

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Actually I don't Rich....there is way to much money in it.
That really is the sad part, isn't it? As long as it is profitable, they will lie, cheat, steal, and hurt a zillion people to line their own damn pockets. The sad part is that this tactic has become the norm at all levels.
 

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That really is the sad part, isn't it? As long as it is profitable, they will lie, cheat, steal, and hurt a zillion people to line their own damn pockets. The sad part is that this tactic has become the norm at all levels.
Yup, nothing abnormal about that whatsoever...!
 

Draconigena

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I can only wish I had 83 as my "global cooling." Well, it was 55 here today, which is a couple degrees warmer than yesterday, but with the extra wind, it felt about 20 degrees cooler. Sigh...
 

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Get anything accomplished today?

I just finished my last report about 30 minutes ago.....:cry:
 

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I am sure you worked your ass off today (sorry, buddy), but I am (seriously) sitting here asking myself just exactly what I didn't do and why. Sigh...
 

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I am sure you worked your ass off today (sorry, buddy), but I am (seriously) sitting here asking myself just exactly what I didn't do and why. Sigh...
Hahhahahaha...good one. Hey, old timers need a day off once in awhile.....:)
 

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I've been doing that for years. Not that I have to wait in line, but it is 55 miles round trip to go to the friggin' post office.
I've never seen it before....I know you can print labels and such from your office, but seldom do I ship anything....never really looked at the options available, so in essence, this shouldn't surprise me....:teehee:
 

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Do you have to be home for the mail-nitwit to show up, or can you just leave the package by the front door?
 

Draconigena

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Do you have to be home for the mail-nitwit to show up, or can you just leave the package by the front door?
The whole thing is a piece of cake. You use their website, type in the address of the person receiving it, weigh your package and their site calculates postage, then you charge it (PayPal or credit/debit card), you print the label, stick it on the package, and inform the post office they have a package to pick up tomorrow (another page on their website that automatically follows what you just did), then some time before your normal mail delivery tomorrow, make sure the departing package is in your mailbox, same as if you had outgoing letters.
 

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The whole thing is a piece of cake. You use their website, type in the address of the person receiving it, weigh your package and their site calculates postage, then you charge it (PayPal or credit/debit card), you print the label, stick it on the package, and inform the post office they have a package to pick up tomorrow (another page on their website that automatically follows what you just did), then some time before your normal mail delivery tomorrow, make sure the departing package is in your mailbox, same as if you had outgoing letters.
The package isn't going to fit in my mailbox.....guess that won't work
 

Draconigena

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Wrap a rubber band around the package and hang it from your mailbox. They just need to see that it is there and if you lay it on the porch in front of the door, they might say they didn't see it. I'm sure you can put in a nail or screw to hang it on......

OH LOOK...
<<<<<<------------- magic number for how many messages. :)
 

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Wrap a rubber band around the package and hang it from your mailbox. They just need to see that it is there and if you lay it on the porch in front of the door, they might say they didn't see it. I'm sure you can put in a nail or screw to hang it on......
Then some asshole will just steal the damn thing......:devil:

Best to be home when the mailman arrives, or go to the post office.
 

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Are you allowed to leave a message in the mailbox saying the fucking package is behind the shrub by the front entryway?....DON'T FORGET IT....:D
 

Draconigena

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I live in the middle of nowhere and put mail and packages in my mailbox all the time. I have the largest mailbox USPS allows, so that isn't a problem, but it sits only a few feet from the highway. In 15.5 years, no one has ever taken anything out of my mailbox. Then again, you live in a city and I don;t know if your neighbors are thieves.

(drat, the magic number is gone now)
 

Draconigena

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Are you allowed to leave a message in the mailbox saying the fucking package is behind the shrub by the front entryway?....DON'T FORGET IT....:D
I would guess that depends on your relationship with the mailman. There might be a fee for crawling under the rosebush. :)
 

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I had someone rifling through my truck glove compartment, which was parked in the driveway in the middle of the day a couple years go.
 

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We never lock anything here when at least one of us is home (security system provided by Smith & Wesson), but when I go to town, I lock the truck if I will be out of sight of it. Had a cooler stolen out of the pickup bed while in the Walmart parking lot, which cannot be locked.
 

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I wish it was the good ole days, never lock the front door, never lock the vehicles, leave the garage door open overnight ...et al
 

Draconigena

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I wish it was the good ole days, never lock the front door, never lock the vehicles, leave the garage door open overnight ...et al
I grew up in that environment (small town USA) and never locked anything. You could even leave the car keys in the ignition, but I had relatives who lived in the big city and even in the 1950s they had shit stolen from their garage.
 

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Well, time for me to get some sleep....heading to the mountains first thing tomorrow morning....have a good one
 

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I'm seeing 11 mph winds....I assume that means 21-30 mph?

At least it's not in the single or below zero digits
 

Draconigena

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Given that both the forecast and the supposed current weather conditions are for Faith, it might actually be 11 mph there. But here? Well, the high temp today was 51 ºF, but right at the moment, it is 32 ºF and the wind here is approximately 30 mph, so it "feels like" 18 ºF.
 

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Given that both the forecast and the supposed current weather conditions are for Faith, it might actually be 11 mph there. But here? Well, the high temp today was 51 ºF, but right at the moment, it is 32 ºF and the wind here is approximately 30 mph, so it "feels like" 18 ºF.
My guess was closer than their guess?
 

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Have to get out of here, need to reinspect a building EARLY tomorrow morning which didn't have the power on last week, should take but an hour....:devil:

Then, back to duh hills for another adventure, I hope....:)
 

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Mundane Morning: Cloudy, 40 ºF with 40 mph wind (feels like 27 ºF) but by early afternoon, it cleared off (wind down to 15 mph) and temp got up to 55 ºF and by sunset, was back to 40 ºF with no wind (feels like 40 ºF). :) Funny how one 40 can be warmer than another...
 

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Mundane Morning: Cloudy, 40 ºF with 40 mph wind (feels like 27 ºF) but by early afternoon, it cleared off (wind down to 15 mph) and temp got up to 55 ºF and by sunset, was back to 40 ºF with no wind (feels like 40 ºF). :) Funny how one 40 can be warmer than another...
Going downhill fast here, they're already posting flash flood warnings, I assume it's about to begin tomorrow night.

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Draconigena

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Wow!That is pretty cool for the Phoenix metro area when it is not even December/January/ And lots of rain too...

I'm hoping our moderate (50s) stuff holds out for at least another week.
 

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