Not that I need another reason to hate California, but this weekend, we are supposed to get another 10 inches of snow from the rain storms they've been having. That's on top of the ice and snow we still have on the ground and streets from LAST Saturday's storm! Global warming, please come soon!

...so sorry you guys are going through it too!

Sorry Steve, the disease is spreading.....' Wed, February 7, 2024 at 8:19 AM MST·2 min read 1 TOKYO (AP) — A court in western Japan on Wednesday approved a transgender man's request to have his gender changed in official records without undergoing sterilization surgery, the first known ruling of its kind since the country's top court struck down a surgery requirement for such record changes.

We got slammed this weekend. Saturday started with rain and 34 degrees. Then as the temps dropped, it switched to a rain/snow mix. Then switched to heavy wet snow through the night and temps dropped to 23 degrees. Sunday morning I got up to an inch of ice on the streets and sidewalks and a layer of 2 inches of frozen, heavy wet snow. Almost impossible to shovel.

Heh...my thoughts exactly!

...like "Game of Thrones", die-hard fans are still bitching about the final season of "Lost".

Melanie Safka, the singer who went by the mononym Melanie famous for songs including “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key,” has died. She was 76. The news was shared with CNN by Billy James of Glass Onyon PR, who said Melanie died on Tuesday. A statement was also shared to Facebook on Wednesday from Melanie’s children. No cause of death was provided. Originally from New York City and the daughter of a jazz singer, Melanie released two singles and an album in the late 1960s, but it was her appearance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 that cemented her breakthrough. She wrote a song about that experience, 1970’s “Candles in The Rain,” which became Melanie’s first US hit. Other hits from the singer include “Peace Will Come,” “The Nickel Song” and a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday.” Due to her growing frustration with her record label at the time, Melanie went on to found Neighborhood Records, the first female-owned independent label in rock history, according to an obituary from Cleopatra Records provided by Glass Onyon. Melanie’s 1971 hit “Brand New Key” – her first single for Neighborhood Records – later enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as a featured song on the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s-era “Boogie Nights” from 1997. After largely withdrawing from the spotlight to pursue other passions including becoming a spokesperson for UNICEF, Melanie remained an independent artist for much of her career, releasing albums throughout the 1980s and 90s, along with a 2010 record, “Ever Since You Never Heard Of Me.” Melanie remained active up until the end of her life. She published her memoir ”Lake Days” last year, and her final tour, in late 2022, took her to the Netherlands. She also had a newly-inked deal with Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records, according to that company’s obituary.

.......way past time we require an IQ test to vote!

.....they win the lottery, while the January 6th rioters get prison time. I guess there really is two justice systems in the U.S.!

Thanks for sharing! So sad..."Jesus Christ Superstar" is my favorite musical of all time.

All last week, the local weather gurus told us "Just hang on and get through this week. This weekend we'll get upper 50's for daytime highs and plenty of sunshine for you. It's gonna feel like you're in Hawaii". Instead, we had highs below freezing and completely clouded over skies Friday through Sunday!! Today is nice - partly cloudy and temps in the low 40's. Hell, after last week, I'll take it!

Saw this brilliant quote and had to share: "Imagine a vaccine so safe that you have to be threatened to take it...for a disease so deadly, you have to get tested to know if you have it!"

There was an article on Yahoo news about climate experts saying that rhinos COULD go extinct due to climate change. I responded thusly: So the lamestream media and climate change gurus tried to scare us that polar bears were threatened by climate change - until a census showed their numbers actually increasing. So now they want to try scaring us that rhinos will be extinct - because it is too warm! POACHERS feeding the frenzy of rhino horn from Chinese and Middle East billionaires is what will cause rhinos to become extinct! My response was rejected as "inappropriate!

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just saw this:

THANKS! We are officially above freezing right now - first time since last Friday at about 1500 hours! It's completely overcast though and supposed to stay like that the rest of the week, so no snow melt!

Here was our weekend in a nutshell: Friday afternoon, we got a high of 33 degrees. Last time we were above freezing. Saturday: -12 degrees F for a low, 3 degrees F for a high (Celsius: -24/-16) Sunday: -7 for a low/5 for a high (-21/-15) Monday: -6 for a low and 0 for a high (-21/-17) This morning it was -17 F (-27 C) for an air temperature. Wind chill readings over the weekend were -15 to -35 degrees. AND we got snow on Friday/ Saturday/Sunday and Monday morning! As brutal as it was for us, I prayed for my family and friends in the Midwest where i was even colder, windier and with more snow!

..a very sad day for the college football world!

Here's our forecast for the weekend: Today: 26 F/9 F Friday: 34/-7 Saturday: 7/-6 Sunday: 7/-3 Monday: 9/-7 We get hit with a cyclone bomb AND the polar vortex (just like last January) and we get to add 3 inches of snow on top of the cold!

Today is the warmest day we get for the next week......and we only got to 33 degrees. It will be below freezing every day for the next week! Friday: 9 for a morning low, 32 for an afternoon high. Saturday: 8 for a low and 16 for a high. Sunday: -3 and rising to 4 degrees for a high. Monday: -6 and climbing to 12. Tuesday: 3 for a low and 29 for a high! Chances for snow flurries on Thursday, Sunday and Monday!

Denver getting snow this morning, but it missed us! This weekend looks miserable - single digits at night, teens for day time highs and chances for snow everday!

The only people I see on the streets are the anti-Semitic Hamas supporters!

I work at a University....good luck finding one of those!

Well, my excitement didn't last long. Harvard decided to retain Ms. Gay as a faculty member and she gets to keep her $900,000/year salary! Every person that donates to that school should pull their donations!

I wonder whose work she'll copy to do that?

What a great way to start the New Year! WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper reported on Tuesday, after she and other presidents of Ivy League schools were widely criticized for their congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.