@therealjrn Agreed, although it has been a really variable winter in upstate [really upstate as in about 1/2 way between Rochester and Buffalo] NY, with the weather alternating between freezing rain, snow, blustery wind, and from lower single digits temps to 40-50 degrees F, overall I would have say mild is the best average overall description.
/giphy Thanks V-P. Gore
Sorry, not sorry.
But all the gifs that came up for any prefix used with the name Gore are, well to coin a phrase, pretty Gore-y
@therealjrn Well, it beats multiple days of single digit days with below 0 nights, feet of snow, persisting for weeks at a time, and especially: having to shovel and plow snow every day or sometimes every 3-4 hours to avoid becoming housebound…
Oddly, at last report, the Rochester area had a higher total of snowfall so far this season than both Buffalo and Syracuse, which are usually higher.
It takes quite a lot of staying home and sleeping and reading and watching tv and doing stuff other stuff around the house for me to get stir crazy. The weather and/or season has little to do with it.
@G8gammie Lol. I’d hate me too. That picture is from Jungfraujoch - The “Top of Europe.” This was my lunch view today. I’m skiing in Grindelwald, Switzerland this week.
@cinoclav@G8gammie Nice. We were in Interlaken several years back and took my MILs ashes to the top of the Jungfrau to disperse. We had done a few trips with her during her lung cancer bout (Machu Picchu, Alaska cruise, Poconos) and that was our next planned outing.
I learned to ski while living in Sallanches (France), in Chamonix, near the MontBlanc and can attest that the alps are amazing!
@chienfou Yep, I think we’ve discussed our skiing history every time I go on vacation over there. It’s funny, I was telling my friends that when I go I want to be cremated and spread over a ski mountain.
@cinoclav Better stay on your friends’ good sides or you may end up on the bunny slope at one of the ski resorts here in Iowa.
(Not that Iowa is a bad place to be… it’s just that you probably hope your remains end up somewhere more along the line of what you’re used to skiing.)
@msklzannie Our conversation also included the request that I not be dumped on Spring Mountain, which is a local bump they should be ashamed of calling a ski hill.
This winter has been a bust for me in northern lower Michigan. I love snow but it snows like a foot (in 24 hours) then it melts a few days later. Then a month later repeats the process. Next week it’s supposed to be in the 40’s. I’ve giving up on this winter being good. Hope for better next year.
About this time of year I start to imagine I live in an undersea world. Don a dry suit and breathing apparatus when leaving the habitat to pilot my submersible to the hydropolis. (It rains a lot here.)
Maybe somewhere around August or September or whenever they can negotiate the best deal, Meh should sell a vacation package for this time of year that’d have us going to Florida or another warm state. I have no idea if it’d be possible to get a deal good enough to where people would be willing to jump on it with only 24 hours to decide, but assuming the company still has its spirit of experimentation in e-commerce, it could be worth looking into.
I don’t know. The weather here is so wack. High temp yesterday afternoon was 78. Overnight low was 39. I’ll be happy when it gets back to the predictable “115* and sunny” forecast.
Naw, been a pretty mind winter. Thanks Algore.
@therealjrn Agreed, although it has been a really variable winter in upstate [really upstate as in about 1/2 way between Rochester and Buffalo] NY, with the weather alternating between freezing rain, snow, blustery wind, and from lower single digits temps to 40-50 degrees F, overall I would have say mild is the best average overall description.
/giphy Thanks V-P. Gore
Sorry, not sorry.
But all the gifs that came up for any prefix used with the name Gore are, well to coin a phrase, pretty Gore-y
@PhysAssist mild
dammit.
@therealjrn Well, it beats multiple days of single digit days with below 0 nights, feet of snow, persisting for weeks at a time, and especially: having to shovel and plow snow every day or sometimes every 3-4 hours to avoid becoming housebound…
Oddly, at last report, the Rochester area had a higher total of snowfall so far this season than both Buffalo and Syracuse, which are usually higher.
It takes quite a lot of staying home and sleeping and reading and watching tv and doing stuff other stuff around the house for me to get stir crazy. The weather and/or season has little to do with it.
Florida…
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet but Florida.
@yakkoTDI actually… yes, they did!
Is it Winter? I mostly work from home, watch TV, and sleep year round, so I have built up an immunity to “Stir Crazy”.
Ummm… no. This is what I get to see this week.
@cinoclav please don’t take this personally, I HATE YOU. Incredible view.
@G8gammie Lol. I’d hate me too. That picture is from Jungfraujoch - The “Top of Europe.” This was my lunch view today. I’m skiing in Grindelwald, Switzerland this week.
@cinoclav @G8gammie Nice. We were in Interlaken several years back and took my MILs ashes to the top of the Jungfrau to disperse. We had done a few trips with her during her lung cancer bout (Machu Picchu, Alaska cruise, Poconos) and that was our next planned outing.
I learned to ski while living in Sallanches (France), in Chamonix, near the MontBlanc and can attest that the alps are amazing!
@chienfou Yep, I think we’ve discussed our skiing history every time I go on vacation over there. It’s funny, I was telling my friends that when I go I want to be cremated and spread over a ski mountain.
@cinoclav Better stay on your friends’ good sides or you may end up on the bunny slope at one of the ski resorts here in Iowa.
(Not that Iowa is a bad place to be… it’s just that you probably hope your remains end up somewhere more along the line of what you’re used to skiing.)
@msklzannie Our conversation also included the request that I not be dumped on Spring Mountain, which is a local bump they should be ashamed of calling a ski hill.
Yes…
earworm alert
/youtube they’re coming to take me away
I’ve been camping in 14 degree weather… in a tent. Great time.
I received my seed catalog this week so I am excited for Spring now. That is usually my sign that I can start getting ready for spring gardening.
This winter has been a bust for me in northern lower Michigan. I love snow but it snows like a foot (in 24 hours) then it melts a few days later. Then a month later repeats the process. Next week it’s supposed to be in the 40’s. I’ve giving up on this winter being good. Hope for better next year.
A case? No. I prefer to acquire my stir-crazies by the six-pack.
@rockblossom I like my winter crazies shaken, not stirred.
About this time of year I start to imagine I live in an undersea world. Don a dry suit and breathing apparatus when leaving the habitat to pilot my submersible to the hydropolis. (It rains a lot here.)
Winter…in SoCal? Ha
Maybe somewhere around August or September or whenever they can negotiate the best deal, Meh should sell a vacation package for this time of year that’d have us going to Florida or another warm state. I have no idea if it’d be possible to get a deal good enough to where people would be willing to jump on it with only 24 hours to decide, but assuming the company still has its spirit of experimentation in e-commerce, it could be worth looking into.
@lljk Hah, living in Florida can I get one of those during the summer? I’d gladly decide on a hundred degree day to take a trip north.
@lljk cool idea, but meh being meh you would probably get an off season ticket to someplace uninhabitable (think 15th of August in the Everglades)
I don’t know. The weather here is so wack. High temp yesterday afternoon was 78. Overnight low was 39. I’ll be happy when it gets back to the predictable “115* and sunny” forecast.
@ruouttaurmind so you enjoy 7th level of hell heat?
/giphy hot in here
@tinamarie1974
/giphy it’s a dry heat
@ruouttaurmind