Chit Chat Thread for the week of June 23rd 2008

Another week of "useful" comments to make our life more complete.
Just kidding, of course !
Finally starting to feel like Flor-i-duh again. After weeks & weeks of no rain I have had at least one afternoon shower 8 of the last 9 days. Lawns are starting to turn green again - it was so dry for awhile that even watering twice a week wasn't keeping the lawns green, green !
Anyway - have a GREAT week !

Last winter I was going to Telluride Co. for a little skiing. I decided to take "SPARKY", my pet hot dog, along on the trip. He said he would love to try a few things out on the slopes.

Lucky I had my cell phone video camera with me. He amazed me and I thought you might like to see some of what he did.

Tune in later in the week for the continuing saga of my pet hot dog Sparky!

I see your getting all kinds of wet stuff that way MR KEN, I hadnt got that much, just some sprinkles, going to the north, or south, wish we would get some where i am at, one of those things that everyone has some but ME, geeeesh...

But it was occulted last night.... Sounds pretty serious, and if that isn't enough the Earth smashed thought the summer solstice June 20th.... Did anyone else fell it? At least Mercury isn’t in retrograde anymore….
It is now officially summer.... 109 degrees on the way to Simi Valley yesterday... That’s F, lest you might think it's C,….
Still hot today in good ol Silver Lake, but not like that.... (Mid 90's)...
What the temp where you are?

Hot and dusty here in Utah. Lightning and thunder last night but no rain.

We have had 3 days of big thunder here, but luckily it has not caused much damage. The Crops are sucking up the rain as fast as it comes down, I think my lawn grew twice as fast..the skies are rumbling as I type..

My son in Mo just had his one bridge washed out and part of his basement flooded also lost a stereo receiver and two sat receivers to lighting last week.

Miss POI the other day someone asked about who was from what state. could you put up something just by state as to how many members are in each state. Not members names?

Here is what our analytics software came up with for the top 10 states for last weeks visitors to the site:

1. California
2. New York
3. Texas
4. Illinois
5. Florida
6. Ohio
7. Georgia
8. New Jersey
9. Pennsylvania
10. Virginia

Hail Hail the gangs all here!!...no no no...the hail's all here..we've been hit with 3 hail storms in the last 24 hours..from pea size to nickle size...and the thunder is rolling

get the hail outta here...

... was unable to take Amtrak back to Detroit from Denver, due to flooding in Iowa. I had to book a last-minute flight for Saturday. At least Amtrak refunded my return train fare in full, however it was not nearly enough to cover the substantial cost of the plane fare. I will keep that in mind for future reference. Between the airfare and the additional cost to return the rental car to the airport instead of the train station, I could have driven my own personal vehicle out to Wyoming and skipped the trip to Denver altogether.

/rant

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it's the dog's fault

Thanks that is interesting. Now if more of the almost 100 thousand would start posting you would need more of your self to moderate. and post things.

You will be missed......

Indeed...

Yea - summer finally arrived here in Idaho as well. 90's now and lots of sun!

ohio is clear rain clear hail rain all in an hour. wow

I downloaded the sounds for redlight and speed cameras but they don't seem to be working. I just get the red box and alert at the top of my Garmin c340. I renamed the sound file to match the names of the files for each speed and redlight data file. Is this the correct procedure or should I have left the file names alone?

Red Light Camera (Jack's Voice) Alert Sound and
Speed Trap 1 Alert Sound

The C340 does not support MP3 sound files.

The area where I live has been surrounded by fires. Lots of fires. The air is horrible and the sun is just an orange ball seen through the haze. I feel sorry for the folks just up the hill - a lot of houses burned to the ground.

Some places are flooding and we're on fire wishing for rain. It's a weird planet.

14th day in a row with temps above 110! Yikes!

Stay cool out there in AZ!

I visited Arizona for the first time in 2006 and recall coming out of the air-conditioned rental car into the street, thinking that the feeling of heat was like when you open an oven door to check on your roast. It's like no other heat that I've experienced.

It was also my first encounter with what appeared to be "cool zones" built into strip malls.

As stated earlier I would show you more on Sparky's skiing trip to Telluride Co. He spent a the 1st whole day just hot dogging it down the slopes and that was what you were seeing.

On the 2nd day he decided to on do some downhill racing. I did get some shots of him doing the downhill. I will show them now.

On the 3rd day he had a slight accident, will show you later this week.

I love it, that is great. I always get excited when I see that there is a new Sparky movie.

Miss POI

I found some more entertainment during my red light camera research today and thought I would share it with the rest of you.

Here is a link to a page that has a fun game called "Camera Killer" it is almost at the bottom of the page.

http://www.safespeedlafayette.com/

Ya I know I should be focused on work but this was fun to play, make sure to read the instructions first.

Miss POI

Paid off the Camry today.

And there was much rejoicing.

Yaaayyy!!!!!

SOOOOOOOO what kind of score did you get, Mine was really really bad..... topped out at 414 after 6 games..... GEEEEEESHHHHHHHHHH

Great job on paying off your car, Spider Elliot!

Get rid of debt!

Off to Seaworld today ! 1st time in 22 years and I live 1 1/2 hours away !

Its been a number of years for me too, but Sea World was always my favorite Orlando theme park and this should be a better time of year to go - smaller crowds, but hotter.

Enjoy!

I live in western Washington, I would be more than happy to share our rain with someone

Send it to southern California. I'm sure they would appreciate any help with their wildfires.

Overcast, some sun, strong winds, torrential downpours, hail - and that is just the weather for yesterday! Supposed to have more of the same all week. (Ever see Louis Black make fun of Massachusetts weather? It's too funny.)

Turned my Volvo out to pasture after 14 years. (Actually, trying to find it a good home, has at least another 100,000 miles in it.)
Found a deal on a 2002 BMW X5, 4.4i, V8.
Might just have to look at it, with the price of gas won't be doing much joy riding. Thought of getting a hybrid, but the BMW was $19,000 cheaper. I can buy a lot of gas for $19,000. (Trying to justify my purchase.) For sure I'll be using my Garmin, don't want to do any extra driving looking for places.

No fires around here yet....

But we would take the rain...

http://qninewmedia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/...

I live in North Iowa, close to that pocket of 14"...thank goodness I live in an area that is drained away from, not towards.

My rain gauge has just over 7" for the month so far...

I mentioned on Wednesday Sparky had a accident on his 3rd day hot-dogging it down the slopes. I just happened to be talking a few videos of him, and caught the accident on my cell phone.

Well here it is.

He wasn't able to ski anymore on this trip.

I also have some videos of what went on later.

Show them later in the week.

Hope he's not hurt too bad.

Time for him to join all the others in the ski lodge wearing casts (although, it looks like he landed on his little head). Maybe a nice snifter of brandy will make him feel better as he warms his feet by the fire - but don't get too close! Hot dogs... fire... bad combination.

Naa... only on the grill it is bad.

Its a beautiful night here in NYC. Mid 70's and the yanks r finally beatin the mets. Its not lookin good for the yanks this year. Boston seems like a lock for the championship.

Hey Jerry is that picture a B-26 "widow maker"?? Great plane - hard to fly and land.

Go Cubbies

another hot day in VA but looking better for next week.

Have been driving between Huntsville, Winchester TN. The 2009 Maps still don't have the David Crocket Pkwy, in it's new configuration. It has been years since this was completed.

You keep saying this every week without telling us where you want 'em to go....

The World Series would be nice.

A's 0 Finally won one.

The great philosopher king has gone to Valhalla but lives on in our hearts.

Actually it is a A26, I know they are hard to tell apart, specilly in that picture, I worked on them wayyyyyyyyyyyy back during the 62 cuban crisis,when i was stationed in GITMO.

I'm new to this POI activity but I'm glad to be here...!

Hopefully I can contribute something

Don't know if I could tell an "A" from a "B" if they were side by side except for the bombay maybe. I also was involved in the 62 Cuban crisis flying SA 16 Air Rescue seaplanes out of Homestead AFB in Florida. Small world huh??

Bump for the cause. (My Windmill!)