Useless Conversation

[Sjofn]

Yeah, sometimes I wish we had a guest room, other times I am glad we don't. 

[Salamok]

That's it. I'm officially done. I don't know WHAT the fuck web designers have decided to do in the last, oh, two years or so, but I'm getting tired of supposedly solid sites (like, you know, Forbes for one) that crash half the browsers on the planet --- or ballon their memory footprint and drive the processor to it's knees.

I blame the clueless fucks hiring the web designers.

[Sky]

The Weather Channel recently went on my WTF were they thinking list for that reason.

Why the hell aren't you using NWS? They're the primary data source, and they just did a redesign of the site. I like they made the graphs more prominent, I've been using them for years. I preferred NWS for a long time, but seeing it up on several vessels on the Deadliest Catch cinched it.

[Murgos]

Yeah, sometimes I wish we had a guest room, other times I am glad we don't. 

Buy them BART/Light Rail passes and one of those Lonely Planet Books and send them on their way.  There's lots to do in Northern California, there is no reason they should bug you everyday.

[Morat20]

The Weather Channel recently went on my WTF were they thinking list for that reason.

Why the hell aren't you using NWS? They're the primary data source, and they just did a redesign of the site. I like they made the graphs more prominent, I've been using them for years. I preferred NWS for a long time, but seeing it up on several vessels on the Deadliest Catch cinched it.

I'm fond of Weather Underground. Which just got bought by the Weather Channel.

[ghost]

I only use Accuweather for basic weather stuff.  I certainly don't watch TV and find TWC's website to be not very well put together. 

[Paelos]

The Weather Channel recently went on my WTF were they thinking list for that reason.

Why the hell aren't you using NWS? They're the primary data source, and they just did a redesign of the site. I like they made the graphs more prominent, I've been using them for years. I preferred NWS for a long time, but seeing it up on several vessels on the Deadliest Catch cinched it.

Good point. I will switch over now. I was fine with TWC before since it was a no frills thing. Now they've got all this...social media crap, java ads, and horrible FOX-like dancing robot crap.

[Chimpy]

TWC's website has been an abomination for at least 5 years.

[ghost]

NWS has good information.  It's a bit much to wade through on a mobile phone though. 

[Sjofn]

Yeah, sometimes I wish we had a guest room, other times I am glad we don't.  

Buy them BART/Light Rail passes and one of those Lonely Planet Books and send them on their way.  There's lots to do in Northern California, there is no reason they should bug you everyday.

Oh, they're not going to bug me because they can't find anything to do, it's just all the stuff they find to do, they may want me to do WITH them, since they're pretty much only here to see me and my aunt (and it sounds like my aunt will be whisking them away for a good chunk of time without me now). It's not really a big deal, I'm just a baby.

Speaking of being a baby, I am awake and not happy about it.   The reason I'm up so early has been CANCELLED on account of the airline having misplaced one of my parents' bags yesterday, and it still hasn't arrived at the hotel, so they don't want to go all the way to Hearst Castle (which is 3.5 hours away, more or less) just in case they need to yell at the airline people some more around noon or so.  

[Lantyssa]

Apparently my yard is becoming a wildlife refuge.  First a turtle mysteriously shows up in my tiny fish pond.  Then I have a 'possum in my garage.  Last night and this morning it was racoons.

It's been raining a lot, so I let the cat go into the garage and sleep on my car when I got home.  I open up the side door so she can get some air and at least get to look outside.  When I went to let her in there were two racoons on either side of the garage door.

This morning I go downstairs and hear scratching at the door.  The weather is kind of crappy and I heard a meow as I was on the stairs, so I thought it was my cat's sister wanting in.  I look through the window and see the slightly wet and grey hind quarters of what I thought was her sister.  Go to grab the key and I peer down and notice that it is, in fact, one of the racoons trying to get inside...

[sickrubik]

Or Maybe you're the new Noah!

[ghost]

Raccoons are nothing to fuck with.  Those little son of a bitches are mean and tough to get rid of. 

[Nebu]

Raccoons are nothing to fuck with.  Those little son of a bitches are mean and tough to get rid of. 

That must be why they wear masks.

[WayAbvPar]

They're quite comfortable.

[Polysorbate80]

I'll send you the frogs that keep showing up in my new barbecue, they can hang out in your pond too.   I also have a couple great horned owls that have taken to perching on the fenceposts by my driveway most nights.  I think they'd be more interested in your cat than the raccoons, though  

Our local raccoons & coyotes naturally haven't bothered to show up since I bought the wife a new .223 to use on them.  It's like they're psychic.  Same with the deer & elk, they spend all summer trying to eat my trees & flowers, sometimes even the entire herd bedding down around the house for the night.  The instant hunting season starts?  *Poof*, gone.

[Sky]

NWS has good information.  It's a bit much to wade through on a mobile phone though. 

Have you tried the redesign? They might have a mobile version now, not sure (since I have a dumb phone).

In other news, this is my basement as of this posting...

[Lantyssa]

Raccoons are nothing to fuck with.  Those little son of a bitches are mean and tough to get rid of. 

I know.  Thankfully they're either female or young.  A big bull raccoon can get be nasty.  I'm going to have to be careful.

I think they've been eating the cat's food.  I put out a bowl with her so she doesn't come inside and binge.  The other night I picked it up and had a roach skitter across my hand so I dropped it.  (Gah.  Involuntary shudder just thinking about it.)  That was cleaned out by morning.  Yesterday when I found them outside the garage I think they had eaten some of that, as a lot of it was gone and she doesn't eat that much.

Of course my Great Hunter just slept on the hood of the car and ignored them eating five feet away.  Which I'm glad she didn't mess with them, but her lack of a killer instinct is hilarious as her mother was always bagging critters.  Maybe she was too good and ended up with spoiled kittens?

[ghost]

A business near my house growing up got a bunch of them in their crawlspace.  It was a real mess as the business backed up to a sizable cliff and had some difficult areas to get to......for the humans.   

[Bunk]

and there goes about ten inches worth of hair...

Only took a year and a half to grow that long.

[ghost]

Why?  Are you going into the military?

[Bunk]

Well, the best description of how my hair looked two hours ago - would be Jim Ignatowski in Taxi.

And I'm going to be doing a presentation next week in front of my boss's boss's boss that could have a large impact on my future with the company. First impressions and all.
Plus it was getting too hot.

[ghost]

Well, the best description of how my hair looked two hours ago - would be Jim Ignatowski in Taxi.

You make this sound like a bad thing.   

[Sky]

Okeedoke!

[Minvaren]

Plus it was getting too hot.

FWIW, that's generally my clue that it's time to get a haircut as well.  Averages out to every 3-ish months...

...also cuts down on the increasing amount of gray I have to look at.  Somewhat.   

[Sky]

My metric is when I've worn it in a tail for two weeks straight. May as well not have long hair if you're always tying it back imo.

[HaemishM]

I wake up at 8AM every day.

People that wake up before sunlight better be farmers or insane.

6 AM Central except on weekends. I have to be at work at 8:30 AM, and have 3 dogs to walk individually (because it's too hard to carry a pooper scooper and more than one dog at a time). So yes, insane but with a reason.

[HaemishM]

That's it. I'm officially done. I don't know WHAT the fuck web designers have decided to do in the last, oh, two years or so, but I'm getting tired of supposedly solid sites (like, you know, Forbes for one) that crash half the browsers on the planet --- or ballon their memory footprint and drive the processor to it's knees.

Not the web designer's fault. That's the browser makers fault. Every fucking one of them has turned into a bloated piece of shit that doesn't follow any set standards so requires multiple passes through at least 3 different programs to get looking even remotely similar from machine to machine. Then add on all the bullshit stupid slideshows and shit that clients get all wet about makes it impossible for anyone to keep up.

[ghost]

My kids pretty much wake me up between 6 and 7 every day, so you can add a third one onto your list, Paelos.  I suppose having kids makes you insane, too, so maybe it still works.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Up at 5:30 during the week so I can leave for work by 6:30 and get there about 7:30.  I've been doing this for long enough that getting up at 7:30-8am on the weekends feels like sleeping in.  If left to my own devices and preferences though, I'd be getting up at 9am and going to bed about 2am.  

My metric is when I've worn it in a tail for two weeks straight. May as well not have long hair if you're always tying it back imo.

This is probably the biggest reason I got my hair cut short years ago.  I loved having it long because I could braid it, but when I realized that I went nowhere with my hair loose, it was time to get it chopped off.  Having thick curly/wavy hair doesn't help either.  I've tried growing it out periodically but can never make it past a certain length before it starts making me crazy and off to the salon.  I've gown to not like hair on the back of my neck, especially when it's hot out.

[Paelos]

My kids pretty much wake me up between 6 and 7 every day, so you can add a third one onto your list, Paelos.  I suppose having kids makes you insane, too, so maybe it still works.

Yep, that falls under insane.

[Nebu]

Plus it was getting too hot.

I started shaving my head for this reason 10 years ago and never looked back.  I came in from a 10k road race and just shaved it all off.  It felt GREAT!  Now, I don't know if anything would even grow back if I let it. 

[WayAbvPar]

Plus it was getting too hot.

I started shaving my head for this reason 10 years ago and never looked back.  I came in from a 10k road race and just shaved it all off.  It felt GREAT!  Now, I don't know if anything would even grow back if I let it. 

I shaved mine in the mid 90s. Let it grow back for a couple of years (2006-2008), then shaved all off again. I love it.

[ghost]

The problem is that for most people I know who shave their heads it eventually becomes permanent, even if they don't really want it to be...... 

[Salamok]

So if I were going to lift weights 1 day a week and add that to the 5-6 days a week cardio I do would it be better to lift at the end of a 5 day cycle and get a day or 2 of rest after or lift at the beginning after a day or 2 of rest?