Upgraded

...to a blizzard warning for tonight.

two things need done today:

• 2nd job cleaning offices
• make a trip to BJ's for some cleaning gear for home

I need to try and get these done before the snow hits. I might buy some salt de icer and a new shovel and a new snow removal tool for the car at BJ's -if they aren't sold out.

The forecast:

Today...Mostly sunny early...Then becoming mostly cloudy. A chance of snow showers early this afternoon. Snow likely late. Highs around 16. North winds 5 to 10 mph...Becoming northeast 10 to 15 mph this afternoon. Chance of snow 70 percent.

Tonight...Snow...Heavy at Times. Blowing and drifting snow causing whiteout conditions at Times. Very windy with lows around 10 above. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph...Increasing to 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 50 mph after midnight.

Brilliant!

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA

330 PM EST FRI JAN 21 2005



.A POWERFUL NOREASTER IS EXPECTED TO BRING

HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS TO MUCH OF SOUTHERN

NEW ENGLAND SATURDAY EVENING INTO SUNDAY MORNING...

AS IT TRACKS SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET. THIS STORM HAS THE

POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS FROM

THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR TO CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS.



THOSE WITH TRAVEL PLANS WITHIN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND

SHOULD HAVE TRAVEL COMPLETED SATURDAY MORNING...

OR POSTPONE TRAVEL UNTIL SUNDAY AFTERNOON IF POSSIBLE.

THIS IS EXPECTED TO BE A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING

SITUATION FOR THOSE WHO VENTURE OUT DURING THE HEIGHT OF

THE STORM SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY....

HEAVY SNOW WARNING AND BLIZZARD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM

6 PM EST SATURDAY UNTIL 7 AM EST SUNDAY...



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON MA HAS

ISSUED A HEAVY SNOW WARNING AND A BLIZZARD WATCH...

COVERING RHODE ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

FROM THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR TO CAPE COD AND THE

ISLANDS.



SNOW WILL BEGIN LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON...THEN

WILL QUICKLY BECOME HEAVY EARLY SATURDAY EVENING.

THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR

SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...WHEN

SNOW COULD FALL AT THE RATE OF 3 INCHES PER HOUR.

STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE BLOWING AND

DRIFTING SNOW WITH WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES.



SNOW WILL TAPER OFF EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. TOTAL

ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 FEET ARE EXPECTED OVER A

LARGE AREA...WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ALONG THE

IMMEDIATE EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS COAST...AS WELL

AS CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS.



IF THE POTENTIAL FOR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS

INCREASES...BLIZZARD WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED IN

LATER FORECASTS.



$$

About lunchtime

Currently 1118...

Sitting here typing up this listening to that Iridium Mix of 28/11/04 at about 41:00 into it. Good quality chill shit. Trying to busy myself with work tasks. I have drastically cut my participation of message boards at work and in general. Got the door of my office closed so I can listen to this music at a reasonable level. Looking through Karin's Office to the outside where it is ballz ass cold. Even with the sun out it is only going to get up to 10º F, -12º C. When I got up to start the car, I used a hand held temperature meter to measure a temp of -19.4º C which is about -3º F. I am far from being a wuss about it though. As someone who has spent 3 long cold winters in the interior of Alaska, I have seen it where it doesn't get warmer than -40º (same in F & C) for the duration of a month. So that is it gets down to -49º at night and then during the day it gets to -42º From January 1st to Feb 4th I was up there at 65º N but this type of cold ass shit isn't supposed to happen here at 41º N (latitude)

Anyway enough bitching about the cold. I am only a bit pissed that it is so nice in Denver, where it is supposed to freaking be cold! I am aware that in Florida it is nice and warm, But 'Effing Denver at 73º F (22º C) yesterday! That's freaking room temperature for god's sake!

Going to eat some good Chinese today for dinner and then go bowling with these people here at work. We will see how that goes. I haven't been bowling in a year. I usually suck at it. Like golf. I get the odd lucky shot, but as a whole I suck at it.



I am going to get myself some Subway for lunch dammit!

This sucks

in Denver, where most of the people I work with are at, they will be getting record high temps, which is perfect for golf. The other night we got record lows. (there is no angry smiley but I guess I could make one) It is in the meantime all cold and wet and icy and slushy and shitty here.

>:(

Forecast discussion for Denver:

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO330 AM MST THU JAN 20 2005.

SHORT TERM...

EVERYTHING STILL ON TRACK FOR RECORD TEMPERATURES INDENVER TODAY. EARLY A.M. ACARS SOUNDING SHOWS INVERSION DEPTH ONLYABOUT 600-700 FT DEEP AROUND DIA AND PROBABLY EVEN SHALLOWER IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS WHERE CURRENT TEMPS IN THE MID 50S. ACARS SOUNDING SHOWS PARCEL TAKEN DOWN DRY ADIABATICALLY FROM 800 MB WOULD ALREADY YIELD 68F...AND MORE WARMING IN THAT LEVEL WOULD SUPPORT 72-75F FOR HIGHS. HOWEVER...THERE ARE A FEW THINGS TO WATCH OUR FOR TODAY. ONE IS MOUNTAIN WAVE ENHANCED CLOUDINESS WHICH FOR NOW HAS CONFINED ITSELF TO WYOMING. THE SHORT RANGE MODELS SEEM CONSISTENT IN ATTEMPTING TO SPREAD SOME OF THE MOISTURE INTO OUR FORECAST AREA WHICH COULD LEAD TO SOME CLOUDS. THINK MOSTLY SUNNY SHOULD SUFFICE FOR NOW THOUGH SINCE WATER VAPOR SHOWS UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE QUITE SPARSE UPSTREAM. SECOND THING IS DOWNSLOPE FLOW DECREASES DURING THE DAY. HOWEVER...INVERSIONS ARE ALREADY QUITE SHALLOW SO THINK 70F IS QUITE LIKELY ATDIA AND A FEW SPOTS IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS COULD
REACH 75F. VERYWARM IN THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL. SPRING SKIING SHOULD BE IN FULL FORCE TODAY WITH HIGHS MOSTLY IN THE 40S AND EVEN SOME 50S IN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS.

LONG TERM...

A RATHER SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE OVER THE BIG WESTERN U.S. RIDGE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. MID LEVEL COLD ADVECTION BEGINS TOMORROW MORNING...BUT THEN LOW LEVEL COLD ADVECTION REALLY KICKS IN FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY AS SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR MOVES SOUTH ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. WHILE WE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ON THE EDGE OF ANOTHER ARCTIC
BLAST...WILL STILL HAVE TO LOWER HIGH TEMPS FOR SATURDAY BY ABOUT 10F DEGREES OVER THE PLAINS. IDEA OF ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS IN MOUNTAINS WITH COLD ADVECTION AND VERY SHALLOW MOISTURE LOOKS GOOD.NOT MUCH NEW FOR SUNDAY THROUGH
NEXT WEDNESDAY. WARM ADVECTION MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS EXPECTED. THEN POTENTIALLY SOME MODERATION THROUGH MID WEEK. PACIFIC IS GETTING ACTIVE AGAIN SO THE SOUTHWEST U.S. SHOULD TRANSITION INTO A MORE WINTERLIKE WEATHER PATTERN BEGINNING NEXT WEEKEND. .

BOU WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

BARJENBRUCH

Cold air

Cold air has moved into the area and it got down to 0º F (-17ºC) last night. It looks as if we are going to have a cold week ahead as well. I have to pick this guy Colin up at the airport today. He is coming in from LHR. I wonder how much of a shock it will be to him as it is 45º F (7º C) in London today.

Effing cold! Our Relative Humidity is at 47% as well, so that makes it colder.

Ambient

Thanks to my good friend Bishop, he has directed me to some ambient stuff.


First Set
Second Set

The parent site

I think the following quote should be read though before listening to it

Quote from Bishop:

yo... check out this link, and especially the iridium sets. i'm not sure how much ambient stuff you've listened to, but this stuff is excellent imo. nice and soothing, with that fsol psychadelic-ish psychosis. lots of arabian nights sounds to it too since it's ambient on the goa side. one thing i know is that the electronic music snobs regularly say that trance is garbage.. and i'd agree with them to a large extent. but i've never once heard anyone really say that goa or psy-trance is crap. the stuff's definitely one of my favorite genres. it's got this sound that seems almost untouched by commercial influences. lots of diverse sub-genres within the sub-genre too. the ambient stuff is best played when you're either in a funky mood orwhen you're tired. heh, obviously, otherwise it wouldn't be
called ambient.

Still dealing with a leak

The people at Cummings Properties are dealing with my leak in the office but it seems as if they are not very concerned that it is leaking like a MOFO in my office!


Just had to get that off my chest.

Funny as hell

I found this which is funny as hell. I find the site amusing, I have only seen a few pages though.

What pisses me off so much about this phrase is the sheer narrow-mindedness of these stuck up vegetarian assholes. You think you're saving the world by eating a tofu-burger and sticking to a diet of grains and berries? Well here's something that not many vegetarians know (or care to acknowledge): every year millions of animals are killed by wheat and soy bean combines during harvesting season (source). Oh yeah, go on and on for hours about how all of us meat eaters are going to hell for having a steak, but conveniently ignore the fact that each year millions of mice, rabbits, snakes, skunks, possums, squirrels, gophers and rats are ruthlessly murdered as a direct result of YOUR dieting habits. What's that? I'm sorry, I don't hear any more elitist banter from you pompous cocks. Could it be because your shit has been RUINED?

Update on the music

OK that site is a bunch of House, if you are into that... but the D& B set is good.

I need a new HD by the way. Mines only an 18GB, and I did have 7GB of music which I had put to CDs and deleted from the HD. But it would be nice to get a 90GB HD ... as well as a new 60GB iPod photo but nobody's perfect.

just a thought.

New Music now

Dealing with some hardcore personal shit, I am definately in the mood for some downtempo chill shit.

A set:

Live @ The Beacham Theater - Live @ The Beacham Theater

The parent website

A link

Militant Islam Online.

mist

Today I feel rested. I was so tired last night that I came home from cleaning at 930pm and just zonked out. Slept until 8am. I didnt get a pace count yesterday but it would have been high. Maybe not upwards of 10,000 but close.

Yesterday, left Newburg at 11am. It rained the whole way back to Boston. The Subaru started acting up right as I was going through the Ted Williams tunnel. I dropped Off Stefanie ok, and left to go back to the office. I should have went back in to the Ted Williams, but I wasnt thinking. The Sumner was being worked on, it was leaking bad, and then they had the I-93 ramp blocked off. I had to drive through the North End, Charlestown, then get finally on at Sullivan Sq. The Subaru died in the breakdown lane next to Spot pond. I waited there for a few minutes, then was able to start it up again. Drove it directly to Subaru, of Wakefield. They checked it out and said it was the main air intake sensor. Cost $460.

So now I drove it back to the office. And then went to my cleaning job. It is all misty outside.

Snowstorm

Today started out OK. Started with my work. Then 10.00 came and so did the snow. It sucked. I didn't get finished tonight and so another night in Newburg is needed. Plus driving back to Boston would be dangerous in the snow.

Very Tired now.

-Chris

You gotta love it when you see something like this in a hotel room. :)

The Old blog format.

What I have done

Where I am currently sitting.

My room tonight.

New Blog

Found this cool site:

Dunkin Donuts

Love that place -the store.

What I am looking at right now.