ETC: Everyday Thoughts Collected - Latest Comments in It’s a Blizzard

Re: It’s a Blizzard

RThomasETC — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:22:44 -0000

That's ok. No worries. yeah... Disqus is pretty cool with the reply by email thing.

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Matt_V — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:51:32 -0000

Sorry, I didn't mean to come off that way, I'm just bitter cold up here.

P.S. I'm responding via email on my
IPhone. Just realized I could do that!

Re: It’s a Blizzard

RThomasETC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:03:11 -0000

Like the thought of a 35,000 foot wall running almost the entire span of the Southeast doesn't automatically conjure up the thought of cataclysmic problems?

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BTCarolus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:37:43 -0000

Don't Wile E. Coyote's schemes always backfire?

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cherylemery — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:38:37 -0000

LOL

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RThomasETC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:07:08 -0000

BARB! ughhh... you poor thing! Is the Red Cross there? I think they should just build a 35,000 foot wall on the northern Floridian border and keep all the cold air up there. And then, in true Wile E. Coyote fashion we can flip a big red switch and the wall will retract into the ground once the cold blast has withered away.

Sound like a plan?

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RThomasETC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:04:43 -0000

Shhhhhh... don't tell anyone but ... I secretly like the cooler air. This is just my yearly opportunity to whine about having to deal with arctic blasts. For some reason I find it entertaining.

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RThomasETC — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:03:32 -0000

uh huh... keep talking. Let's see what you say when it's the middle of August at 95 degrees, 100% humidity and a storm with some outdated name coming to pay a visit.

By the way, can we stay away from the word "pansies?" It's one of those words I just don't really care for. I know you don't really mean it to be mean but ... it's just one of those words for me.

So, tough guy ... see you in August? Gator hunting? Python wrestling? Hurricane dodging?

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Barb — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:39:56 -0000

You would never survive north of Florida in Alabama! We had a high of 46 yesterday, low of 25 this morning, and a high of 51 today. Tonight, it's going down to 32, high of 57 tomorrow and down to 28 tomorrow night. Now, that is cold, when you have the wind we had yesterday. It might have been 46, but the windchill factor made it about 33 for the high!

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Jay — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:34:45 -0000

Don't get me wrong. I love warm weather. But it's been in the 30s all day today. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and everything was bathed in a very bright, almost merciless winter light. Everything seemed very clean and fresh, and it was so nice to see everyone walking around in their coats and scarfs and hats. I'm actually liking cold weather this year... just not the fact that I constantly have the sniffles.

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Matt_V — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:47:28 -0000

Sunny with a high of 65 -- in November no less -- and you're complaining?
You Floridans are pansies... that's all I have to say about that.
Tomorrow's high up here is 25 degrees.

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RThomasETC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:24:00 -0000

No ear muffs. I want to die without ear muff hair ... and no beard. No thank you. I refuse to drive to Disney unless I am actually going to play in the parks. Which I won't be doing as long as it is freezing.

wah!

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ChaplianChas. — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:25:17 -0000

Ear muffs and scarfs are helpful for those arctic blasts, too! Oh, and grow a beard. I'm thinking Disney must have some magical ear muffs around somewhere, eh?

Blessings from the Cold Miser (whatever I touch seems to freeze up in my clutch... I'm too much!)

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RThomasETC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:57:51 -0000

Long woolly underwear sounds awful ... but if it helps me survive... ok.

I do have a fireplace actually. I've never used it but it's pretty. ... and there is NO way I am opening all the windows and do all that you said to do ... no thank you and your crazy negative Celsius talk.

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RThomasETC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:55:22 -0000

It's easy. Hold the home button and click the button at the top (that normals turns off the screen) at the same time. It is a timing thing ... so hit them at the same time.

I am SO glad you are still commenting on *my* blog. The others? It's ok if you let them slide. Just don't ever leave my blog :)

We like Fay.

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cherylemery — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:22:22 -0000

:::gasp::: Oh Randy what tragedy!!! You may have to purchase long woolly underwear just to survive! Or you could open all your windows, curl up in a thick blanket, light a fire in your fireplace, if you have one, and watch 'The Day After Tomorrow'. I always do that when it's -30C. Good times:)

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fayola — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:55:00 -0000

I've been wondering how you do the iPhone screen grab. Must Google that. And good luck trying not to freeze to death tonight.

(See, I *am* still commenting on blogs. :)

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RThomasETC — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:00:57 -0000

Oh Ellie ... it's horrible. Ittt'sss HOOOrrrriiiiiiibbbbblllleeeeeee.

I even had to put on a sweatshirt OVER my t-shirt!

::: shiver :::

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BTCarolus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:58:03 -0000

Oh my, Randy! you should come out to California for the next week or so...it's been upper 80s and even 90 (on my back porch). I don't know what I would do if the temperature dropped all the way down to the 60s....I think I might die of exposure! I hope you have a parka and snow boots.