I'm not normally up this early. Actually I was up around 0400 hours. I stepped outside for a smoke. Dammmmm!!! It's mighty chilly out there. I checked on the weather site and it said 41(F). I left a couple windows open last night which might explain why it's only 65'ish inside right now.
Oh, what a relief it is though! Perhaps a light jacket, step into the refreshingly cool air. I don't step outside and start sweating my butt off, I can get into a cool car, wow, I love it!
I love this time of year. They received 9 inches of snow up in the mountains a little east of here the last two days. I can't wait to head up to Snowshoe. I ski but have never snowboarded. A co-worker gave me his old board when he bought a new one and I am really excited to try it out.
David, I downhill & cross country ski with the best of them. A few years back, at the young age of 50 (thinking I was still 19) I bought a snowboard. After a few brief moments of positive gravity working in my favor to advance me, lets say a couple hundred feet down the slope only to be greeted by an ungracefull fall from grace - my friends decided that the best term for my alleged "snowboarding" was more in line with a fish out of water. AKA "Carp Flopping".
I have since given my son my ex-snowboard. Now he can carp flop and get the hot chicks. Skiing and snowboarding are not even in the same realm, just as high diving and scuba diving.
But... good luck
Last time I was in Washintgon DC (July), it was 105 degrees.
This weekend, I showed up and it was 60 degrees less.:-(
I remember riding down a hill on a toboggan, standing up; is it like that?
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Radar
> I remember riding down a hill on a toboggan, standing up; is it like that?
No, tobogganing is way more fun. Standing, sitting, laying, combo, doesn't matter. Just need someone to hold your peppermint schnapps when you hit the big rock you didn't see. Besides, it's not like you can actually steer one of those things, making it all that much more adventurous.
The best part about tobogganing is you don't even need snow. Wet grass on a big hill on the golf course is a blast, at least until the superintendent kicks you off.
But snowboarding is more like skateboarding. It tricks human nature into leaning the wrong way to achieve a result. Then you fall and can't get up because your feet are locked into some device that was invented by some devious little kid who later grew up to be an engineer. And the bastard profited from our shortcomings and thinking we could defy the laws of nature.
You will soon learn what it is like to become a victim.....:-P
It's freezing here too, SWMBO has me on the hunt for "Duraflame" logs!
Have a great week!
January this year I was surveying on North Star island for BP. Thats 7 miles out on the Arctic Ocean. Temp was -50 with 30 mph wind. You figure the chill factor. Trimble GPS wouldn't work, and I didn't want to either. Had to break out Total station.
> January this year I was surveying on North Star island for BP. Thats 7 miles out on the Arctic Ocean. Temp was -50 with 30 mph wind. You figure the chill factor. Trimble GPS wouldn't work, and I didn't want to either. Had to break out Total station.
Now, seriously, Wildman, that doesn't compare to the agony of trying to have a smoke and piss off your porch and it's only in the 60's.
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Just kidding, Eric.
Don
After a long tough Texas summer, I am thankful for some cooler weather.
Supposed to dip into the 40's by morning here.
We are suppose to get our first frost this week. I love fall here. A little cool in the morning, but still hits 70's on most afternoons. Much better than 100-112. Winter is coming though. Snow and sub 0 next month I'm sure.
