Twosday, Mar 17th, '26...

ST1100Y

ST1100Y

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My morning routine is coffee...
and pretending I’m not already tired of today... :coffee:


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G'Day...

4°/8°C, mostly overcast, possible rain in the afternoon, gusty winds, possible snowfall down to 1300ft...
Yeah... springtime... 4 seasons within 25 minutes... ☀️🌧️❄️💨🌩️🌤️

home and office caffeinated... :coffee:

Aaaaaand... we're back in the mine... pfffff... 😑

And as it seems is the boss-man now trying to "test" me... 😜
Hard enough to decipher his hieroglyphs scribbled on some scrap paper, send via WhatsApp as blurry, out of focus cellphone pics... 🤔
Nah, he doodles multi outdoor unit model numbers but then adds single indoor unit types to that... right... 😛

English-speaking nations have some green celebration today, of course copied by the local 'youth', abused as welcomed excuse for vandalism and raising ruckus...
on the other side the tree-huggers complaining green die poured in creeks, rivers, and other water bodies is harmful to wildlife and environment... go figure...
Law enforcement and EMTs on alert, Talahons vs locals, 'alcohol corpses' spread out across the city during the night... the whole program... great...

ze GF overdoing it at the gym yesterday, overzealous as usual, complaining about parts pinching here and there in the morning... 😉

Alright... here's to 🍀
 
Good morning everyone

Thanks for the coffee, Martin. In view of the date, I'll add some Irish cream to my refill.

ST1100Y said:
Yeah... springtime... 4 seasons within 25 minutes.
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:D

In Rockville it's 31°F and apparently rather windy (I can hear it in the trees), with 18 mph from the W. We may reach 40, we may not, but thanks to the wind it'll never feel as if we have.

We had two or three episodes of absolute frog-strangling downpours yesterday afternoon and evening, with rainfall rates in the several-inches-per-hour range. Fortunately, they didn't last more than fifteen or twenty minutes per episode, with time in between for the runoff to disperse and let the storm drains clear. All told, they delivered about an inch and a quarter of rain.

Mrs. Fun called yesterday to let me know she'll likely come home this Sunday, after two weeks of churn and nowhere near as much progress as she had hoped. Three chiefs and no indians makes for a lot of round-and-round and little forward progress.

It was a year ago today that I received the shocking, stunning news of my oldest brother's passing. Yesterday evening, a cousin on my mother's side, from whom I seldom hear, called to check in and see how I was doing on the eve of the anniversary. It was very touching, and I was impressed at her sensitivity and thoughtfulness.

Stay safe and well everyone and tell your dear ones you love them. Do it today, NOW, for tomorrow may be too late.
 
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Morning all, and thanks Martin for the startup.

It's an interesting weather day outside in my slice of the world. Still dark, but there's heavy winds and rain. Temps are 15C, and that's on the positive side, which is uncommon to say the least. It's muggy outside too. The combination of high winds (61kph sustained and 91kph gusts) and high temps has caused fog white outs. The white banks of you-can't-see-ship-in-front-of-you make driving treacherous. The winds, that deposit you into the other lane with their gusts, don't help. There's also lightning warnings. Power's flickered a few times so far, but stayed up. Temps are supposed to slowly plummet as the day goes on, the rain stop, and things re-freeze.

How's you neck of the woods doing this morning?

Hope it's excellent.

Obo.
 
Obo said:
Morning all, and thanks Martin for the startup.

It's an interesting weather day outside in my slice of the world. Still dark, but there's heavy winds and rain. Temps are 15C, and that's on the positive side, which is uncommon to say the least. It's muggy outside too. The combination of high winds (61kph sustained and 91kph gusts) and high temps has caused fog white outs. The white banks of you-can't-see-ship-in-front-of-you make driving treacherous. The winds, that deposit you into the other lane with their gusts, don't help. There's also lightning warnings. Power's flickered a few times so far, but stayed up. Temps are supposed to slowly plummet as the day goes on, the rain stop, and things re-freeze.

How's you neck of the woods doing this morning?

Hope it's excellent.

Obo.
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I hope you either work from home or take a cage to work today. Taking the 'Wing might not be the best option, though you'd earn major hardiness and style points.
 
Thx Martin!
That’s our cat on yer picture, just saying….

6˚c/43f, heavy rain, wind 40mph from south, not walking weather.

The tax report for 2025 just arrived, and there are several things to adress
A property sale, not listed….I owned 2,78%,
I’ve got deducted 33% of some interest my son has paid the bank
I’ve got deducted some interest Mrs Stu has paid the bank.

My mind working at 10% capasity these days, it will take the day.

@ibike2havefun That’s a touching story Keith, my heart is with you.

Have a green one!
Stu

Looking outside today, warmer weather must be on it’s way….
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ibike2havefun said:
I hope you either work from home or take a cage to work today. Taking the 'Wing might not be the best option, though you'd earn major hardiness and style points.
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Although I've been known to ride into November & December (as long as there's no black ice) I usually wait until April or May to ride in the Spring, mostly due to all the grit on the roads, especially on off ramps and intersections. No one likes riding on marbles!
 
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Mrs. Obo just called, and said my next door neighbour has a 75' tree downed on his house. I inquired if it was one of the trees in between our houses, but she said it was on the opposite side of his house. I'll text him later to see if everything's OK and he needs help or a chainsaw.
 
Good morning, and thanks for the coffee, Martin. I'll take mine neat, thank you.

It's 36 and mostly cloudy, rising to 40 as the day progresses.
We got a good bit of rain and wind, yesterday, but it died out overnight.
We may get another shower or so this morning, but the rain should be gone by noon. 15-25mph wind will stick around, though.

We did the financial planner thing, yesterday, then visited with our son and family for a bit. All are okay, and the grandkids are growing like weeds.
Elouise continues to be an active, happy girl, and Oliver is walking and smiling constantly.
Joe and Megan have a bathroom project off of their downstairs bedroom, and after showing us the progress, we spent a bit of time throwing both kids onto their bed, like it was a trampoline. Elouise loved it, and Oliver even got into the act, although more gently.

On the cat front, Monica and Kailua are out and about, somewhere, having jumped the child fence overnight. Laguna briefly came out from under the futon last night, and appears to have eaten some of the wet cat food that we left back there. Slooooly...

Enjoy the day,
Steve
 
Thanks, Martin. If you're spicing up your coffee, take it easy - least you tell your boss how you really feel.
Obo said:
No one likes rising on marbles!
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And not many riders like riding on marbles, either.
All our "snow" from yesterday had cleared in time for me to ride home, but it's 28 now, warming to 45.
Tomorrow we're back to 60, and go up from there. 80 on Thursday. Just (hopefully) Ole Man Winter's last time to pitch a fit as he is ushered out of here by Springtime.
Our upstairs toilet kept trying to fill, and the float quit shutting it off.
So Friday I got an entire new drain valve and fill valve. Saturday - and again on Sunday - I spent most of the day trying to put it back together.
Putting it back together wasn't too hard, but the rubber donut that suits between the tank and the base keeps getting pushed down into the base, and spews water when the tank drains.
Huh. I didn't forget to add the story today, as I speculated yesterday.
Keith, it seems your cousin is familiar with your standard sign-off here.
Time to get out the Warm and Safe for the ride in, maybe for the last time. But I took off my Hippp Hands a bit to soon, it would seem.
Stay warm y'all... summer's on the way.
 
Top o' the mornin' and a Happy St. Paddy's Day to all and sundry.

Who's causing my lights to flicker wildly and making all kinds of thud-bang-crash noises outside? Everyone knows it's Windy. You're welcome for the earworm. If you're too young to remember the song, just move along, nothing to see here. The rest of you, put your teeth back in and have another cup of coffee. Perhaps with a dollop of Jamieson or Irish Cream. Fiddle-dee-dee potatoes.

We had heavy, driving rain and some snow overnight; the rain seems to have stopped but now we have blowing snow. All the leprechauns out there had better hang on to their beards, because the wind's still going strong: 48 kmh/30 mph sustained, 74 kmh/46 mph gusts. Not as bad as where Obo is but mighty blowy, nonetheless. The current temperature is -4°C/25°F with a feels-like of -14°C/7°F and it will get colder from here.

Everyone have a good one, be safe, go safely and stay out of that wind! Hmmm...now where's that bottle of Jamie?

Pádraigín
 
Good Morning, thanks Martin for getting us going. Happy St Patrick's day, now do I have anything green to wear? Oh yeah I have a green coat. Weather, Monsoon out there, 30 mph winds 1.25" rain in the last 24 hours.85" expected in the next 24 hours. 48 C with a high of 54 C . Today's agenda take out the garbage, and a Lab appointment at 10:40 Doc wants me to have a ECG, and suck some blood out of me. Cheers G
 
Morning all! Grey and rainy here. 9C with 11C to come.

Day 2 of burning excess leave before fiscal year end. Managed to get the weight rack put together yesterday and a decent start on the wood wall stringers to attach it too. Hopefully will get those up and painted today.

Commiserations Keith. No doubt the hole left by his passing remains deep.

Hope everyone has a great day!
 
ALT+0233 for "é" and ALT+0201 for "É". I only know this trick because I use the degree sign ALT+248 "°" in my tech writing. Yes, the zero makes a difference. Don't ask me what the other vowels are though...Google is good for that.

G'mornin' from SoIreland SoMD! The temps here whave whipsawed up-down-up-down over just a few days. Yesterday's warm front brought us 68F before the following cold front dropped us to 31F/-0.5C this morning. Lots of wind and some rain (only about 0.64", much less than up where Keith reports) from yesterday's storm, but thankfully no damage nearby and the severe warnings were for naught.

The coffee today was much needed as I slept like a drunk baby last night. Thanks, Martin! I laid down and woke up in the same position. I didn't want to move but the Herd was insistent otherwise.

More WFH today, no word on future in-office status, so any trips in will be of my own free will I guess. With the weather slowly improving through the week I just might take a ride in. Other stuff today will probably involve garage work to get at least one mower cleaned up and on the for-sale block. But for now, take care y'all!
 
Peppermint said:
...... 74 kmh/46 mph gusts. Not as bad as where Obo is but mighty blowy, nonetheless.
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Maybe it is- Environment Canada has already recorded 90 Km/h, 55 MPH gusts here and as evidence of that there is a large tree lying across my neighbours fence at the moment. The last time we had winds like this another one of that same neighbours trees generously shed a large limb that did 10 or 11,000 dollars damage to my property and garage. Quite amazing how quickly a chainsaw took care of the other threatening tree.
 
Andrew Shadow said:
Maybe it is- Environment Canada has already recorded 90 Km/h, 55 MPH gusts
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Ugh yeah, I know. The wind got worse right after I posted and to be honest, I thought the numbers reported this morning were low. And it’s still blowing like Hades out there. Hope the damage to your neighbour’s property isn’t too catastrophic. Was it one of the trees you were pointing out to me last summer? Also glad to know you were spared this time. I’m thinking about that “strapped” tree just across your fence. Is that one still standing? Yikes.
 
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