It's around 2pm on Saturday as I type this. We're having a 3 day weekend as Monday is a public holiday - Queens Birthday. I thought the drive
Today is 1 June here and the first day of Winter. Outside we're dealing with temps around 6c and lows just a few degrees lower. It's been
raining all day and it feels rather dull and gloomy. The leaves have all but dropped from most of the trees that loose them for Winter.
many months may go by before they do. It's amazing to realise that we're in the sixth month of the year already and before we know it it seems
like it will be Christmas tunes on the radio etc. again - yipes!
I still have troubles wrapping my head around that. All my life, I've known that the seasons were different in the Southern Hemisphere, but it still seems wrong to me... :)
I still have troubles wrapping my head around that. All my life, I've known that the seasons were different in the Southern Hemisphere, but still seems wrong to me... :)
You're having troubles :) Spare a thought for the dude freezing his kahones off :) Hahahah
I can imagine it's the same for you... :) For what it's worth, I've got the windows open, and have a nice breeze flowing through the house, as I sit here in shorts... ;)
You're having troubles :) Spare a thought for the dude freezing his kahonesoff :) Hahahah
I can imagine it's the same for you... :) For what it's worth, I've got the windows open, and have a nice breeze flowing through the house, as I sit here in shorts... ;)
At 7C *above*?
We had -20C much of February!
Today is 1 June here and the first day of Winter. Outside we're dealing with temps around 6c and lows just a few degrees lower. It's been raining all day and it feels rather dull and gloomy. The leaves have all but dropped from most of the trees that loose them for Winter.
I'm planning on spending some time on BBSing and also want to watch a few more movies as it seems the ideal time to do so. Certainly not a day/weekend for much outdoors work. That said I did spend 30 mins outside after I got up this morning and chopped out some branches from a large shrub that we're slowly trying to remove off our property. I use some large gardening loppers and chop a few branches up at a time and feed them into a green wheelie bin we have that gets emptied each Monday. So slowly the thing is disappearing.
Yep you know it's cooler when you have hot soup and cheese on toast for lunch :) Work has been quite busy of late with a bunch of differing projects I am working on. One member of our wider team resigned and left a few weeks ago. They have not yet replaced him and I'm wondering how many months may go by before they do.
Anywhoo I hope you all are well and having a good weekend / Friday.
At 7C *above*?OK you're are colder than mine :)
We had -20C much of February!
On 01 Jun 2019 at 01:40a, Va7aqd pondered and said...
At 7C *above*?
We had -20C much of February!
OK you're are colder than mine :)
In the winter maybe. ATM it's 27C here and they are calling for 31C
later in the day. We don't generaly get temp like that til July.
Avon wrote to All <=-
It's around 2pm on Saturday as I type this. We're having a 3 day
weekend as Monday is a public holiday - Queens Birthday. I thought the drive into work on Friday seemed easier but it was not until later in
the day the penny dropped and I realised a number of people probably
took the day off to make it a 4 day weekend.
Today is 1 June here and the first day of Winter. Outside we're dealing with temps around 6c and lows just a few degrees lower. It's been
raining all day and it feels rather dull and gloomy. The leaves have
all but dropped from most of the trees that loose them for Winter.
I'm planning on spending some time on BBSing and also want to watch a
few more movies as it seems the ideal time to do so. Certainly not a
It was 24C here today, and last year temps in august got to about 28C-30C on the odd occasion. That's pretty hot for the UK. There was talk on the news that we "might" be in for a 3 month heatwave... which is likely to bring temps to ~35C-37C but the next day they said that the next few weeks look like they're going to be cooler and have highs of like 18C-20C.
The UK weather is very predictably unpredictable. I think it might snow later this month o.O
I can imagine it's the same for you... :) For what it's worth, I've g the windows open, and have a nice breeze flowing through the house, a sit here in shorts... ;)
Me too! Then again, I live in a pretty idyllic spot in California, so...that's basically the entire year :P
It's 29C here now and climbing. I like the warm weather but I can wait
for the summertime.
The last two years BC has set records for wildfires. There are a greater than average number of fires burning now in northern BC and a huge fire
in northern Alberta that is causing a lot of trouble for people.
There is also a fire (a small one I think) burning south of here.
Looking south I don't see the sky or horizon, just smoke.
There is also a fire (a small one I think) burning south of here.
Looking south I don't see the sky or horizon, just smoke.
Ohh no, that's not good, I hope no one has been hurt by them.
We had some wildfires last year, the two biggest I can think of were around Manchester area and it burnt through ~7 square miles.
We had some wildfires last year, the two biggest I can think of were aroundManchester area and it burnt through ~7 square
miles.
On 06-01-19 14:03, Avon wrote to All <=-
It's around 2pm on Saturday as I type this. We're having a 3 day
weekend as Monday is a public holiday - Queens Birthday. I thought the drive into work on Friday seemed easier but it was not until later in
the day the penny dropped and I realised a number of people probably
took the day off to make it a 4 day weekend.
Today is 1 June here and the first day of Winter. Outside we're dealing with temps around 6c and lows just a few degrees lower. It's been
raining all day and it feels rather dull and gloomy. The leaves have
all but dropped from most of the trees that loose them for Winter.
I'm planning on spending some time on BBSing and also want to watch a
few more movies as it seems the ideal time to do so. Certainly not a day/weekend for much outdoors work. That said I did spend 30 mins
outside after I got up this morning and chopped out some branches from
a large shrub that we're slowly trying to remove off our property. I
use some large gardening loppers and chop a few branches up at a time
and feed them into a green wheelie bin we have that gets emptied each Monday. So slowly the thing is disappearing.
Me too! Then again, I live in a pretty idyllic spot in California, so...that's basically the entire year :P
At least I am not the only one out here that has to feel bad for everyone else's weather.
In the winter maybe. ATM it's 27C here and they are calling for 31C
We in the US had our long start-to-Summer weekend last weekend...
Memorial Day. I also took the 4-day option. :)
We hit 34C today. By July it'll be pushing 40C. But the typhoons help to keep things cooler.
Last year we had a really disappointing typhoon season.
Last year we had a really disappointing typhoon season.
May all of your typhoons be disappointing.. :)
Queens Birthday is next weekend here. This weekend is a regular 2 day weekend, one more week to the long weekend for me. :)
I love the way typhoons ended up in a post I made at the start of my day about a long weekend :)
Apparently it's one of the coldest and wettest years on record. I fear what kind of stasis we're going to be in over the coming years :/
Avon wrote to All <=-
Movie wise I just finished the Godfather trilogy and agree the 3rd film
is not as good but I still enjoyed them all. My wife likes James Bond movies so we seem to be watching a few of those at the moment. It's
almost like Friday night is a Bond movie night at present :)
I don't think so but it can create problems for folks in the vicinity. Some areas like Williams Lake took a lot of damage and a number of homes were destroyed.
I suppose wildfires are a natural thing that needs to happen. I forget
the number exactly but several hundred thousand hectares burned up here last year.
There was a fire in 2003 not far from here. It started from a lightning strike in Okanagan Mountain Park. It was a small fire that wasn't considered dangerous. It soon became a firestorm that forced the evacuation of 27,000 people and destroyed 239 homes and consumed 25,000 hectares.
Re: Re: Long Weekend
By: MeaTLoTioN to Al on Sun Jun 02 2019 01:38 am
We had some wildfires last year, the two biggest I can think of were arManchester area and it burnt through ~7 square
miles.
While the area is, for the most part, sparsely populated, one of the northern Alberta wild fires is about 2,800 sq. km. There are a number
of evacuations going on... an example bit of news:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/high-level-wildfire-grows-to-nearly-half-the -of-fort-mcmurray-blaze-1.4447549
There was a fire in 2003 not far from here. It started from a lightning
strike in Okanagan Mountain Park. It was a small fire that wasn't
considered dangerous. It soon became a firestorm that forced the
evacuation of 27,000 people and destroyed 239 homes and consumed 25,000
hectares.
Oh wow that's insane! We don't often get much in the way of storms here, at least I rarely hear or see them. According to some UK webpage we get around 200,000 a year on average in the whole of the UK, which I don't suppose is much compared to other parts of the world.
I know that where I live, in the last year, I have seen as many lightening storms as I can comfortably count on one hand.
May all of your typhoons be disappointing.. :)
I do hope you live inland and on high ground.
I love the way typhoons ended up in a post I made at the start of my day about a long weekend :)
Well, typhoons DO cause long weekends -- or something -- so there is some sort of logic in there somewhere, if you squint just right :-)
On 06-02-19 15:26, nathanael wrote to Blue White <=-
We in the US had our long start-to-Summer weekend last weekend...
Memorial Day. I also took the 4-day option. :)
This coming weekend in Taiwan is Dragon Boat festival. Three days full
of dragon boat racing, day- and night-markets (sort of the equivalent
of carnivals in the US), extreme crowds and sweltering weather.
This coming weekend in Taiwan is Dragon Boat festival. Three days full
of dragon boat racing, day- and night-markets (sort of the equivalent
of carnivals in the US), extreme crowds and sweltering weather.
I generally just stay home.
On 06-02-19 08:17, Netsurge wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Queens Birthday is next weekend here. This weekend is a regular 2 day weekend, one more week to the long weekend for me. :)
The Queens birthday is all over the place, it was a few weeks ago here
in Canada.
I'd like to have my birthday spread out over a few weeks too.
On 06-02-19 13:25, Al wrote to MeaTLoTioN <=-
These fire storms are not normal. It has become drier and warmer here
in the summer so the fires are larger and harder to put out. It's not limited to BC. I've seen such firestorms in California ripping through densely populated areas
destroying homes and everything else in their path.
I don't know the numbers but a lot of fires are human caused also.
I grew up on the west coast of BC. The south west part of BC is some
kind of rain forest, beautiful old growth forests that are damp most of the time.
That's not the case here in the Okanagan where I live now. We usually
get a good dump of snow in the winter but aside from that, very little
in the way of rain so as summer progresses it gets drier and warmer.
We get some wicked firestorms over here. Feb 7, 2009 was the biggest one of
them all, which included documented fire tornados - not just fire whierls, but >huge tornados, just like in the midwest of the USA, with a bit more heat. One
of the first fire tornados I recall being documented struch Canberra during their 2003 bushfires, but the 2009 fires in Victoria also had documented tornados.
I don't know the numbers but a lot of fires are human caused also.
That's true here - arson, carelessness/negligence and faulty utilities are a number of common causes here. :( The arson is especially disappointing, because we have strict laws regarding the use of fire in the danger months, including the ability to declare total fire bans on bad days. Unlawful fires can result in hefty fines and/or serious jail time.
Australian flora is not only extremely evolved to deal with fire - from armoured trees like the ironbarks common here to many species, which require fire to germinate, and many species that can rebuild their foliage through
epicormic growth after a fire, but it is also extremely flammable, since these >species that can use fire to grow are going to do better if they burn. Tens o
thousands of years of Aboriginal firestick farming have also favoured these fire tolerant and flammable species.
Add to that 40C+ temperatures, himidity below 10%, pre-frontal winds that can exceed 100 km/h and frequent drought, and you have a recipe for a firestorm. Last few seasons, we've dodged a bullet in my part of the state.
Now that's one thing I have tried - not in an actual race, but went
On 06-04-19 12:53, Al wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I think you have warmer/drier weather there than we do here. In the Okanagan it
is warmer/drier than most of BC. We may see 5-10 days a year where the temps will reach 40C but generaly it gets to 34-36C. In those temps
fires seem to come from nowhere. Lightning is a bad one here too, we
get lightning with no rain.
In 2016 there was a different fire in northern Alberta in Fort
McMurray. I'm not sure how or why that fire started but it caught the
town by surprise and did a lot of damage. The first time I saw it, it
was burning up some gas startions and cafe's on the outskirts of town. Small buildings quite far apart but the fire still made it's way from building to building.
I saw a video a few days later of a gridlock of people trying to get
out. Cars were lined up on a side street and bushes/shrubs/trees/homes would burst into flames right beside them.
I tried to find that video but it's burried somewhere on cbc.ca.
If they can connect you to a fire here you are in big trouble.
These fires are not good for humans or property but in nature it's just
a matter of out with the old and in with the new.
Ecologists here say yeah, it's all very terrible but look at what's happening now!
So I guess it's all good, you just need to keep your stuff out of harms way.
Add to that 40C+ temperatures, himidity below 10%, pre-frontal winds thatan
exceed 100 km/h and frequent drought, and you have a recipe for a firestorm. Last few seasons, we've dodged a bullet in my part of the state.
In those temps and conditions you guys must be used to fire and are prepared for it.
It's all rather new here and we are still trying to figure out how to prepare for what I guess is inevitable now and better deal with it when
it happens.
On 06-06-19 11:24, nathanael wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Now that's one thing I have tried - not in an actual race, but went
Never been in a dragon boat. Saw a real one about ten or fifteen years ago, but in Taiwan it's impossible to go anywhere during vacations, so
we just sit at home and watch it on TV.
Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some
Spring weather and warming temps.
I'm helping my wife paint another bedroom and will end up doing chores outside.
Oh and my oldest step-daughter is waiting on some tests she's just had to undergo to check for cervical cancer....poor thing she's freaked and rightly
so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.
I feel for you. My wife just got confirmation of Kidney cancer today.
Now we're going over surgery schedules, dietary changes..... It's rough.
Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some Spring weather and warming temps.
Oh and my oldest step-daughter is waiting on some tests she's just had
to
undergo to check for cervical cancer....poor thing she's freaked and
rightly
so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.
On 10-23-20 12:07, Avon wrote to All <=-
Heading into a nice long weekend here. Our Monday is Labour Day and
it's first public holiday for some months as we emerge from Winter and enjoy some Spring weather and warming temps.
I'm helping my wife paint another bedroom and will end up doing chores outside.
May watch some of the USA debate today, not sure. I'm working from home today but taking a break to play BBS :)
Hope you're going well in your corner of the globe.
Can't recall if I mentioned Roxette have a new tune out. I know they
are like so 90's but I always liked them. The lead vocalist (Marie)
died a year or so ago with cancer, this is a posthumous release of a single with her vocals in it etc. Kinda has a double meaning now - the
new song..
https://youtu.be/fFidYtllRW0
This has been a year when I've noticed death more. My wife's mum passed
a few months ago so we were obviously wrapped up in all of that. She's still hit with waves of sadness and tears that come from nowhere at
times. We ride the rapids together. Holding someone sometimes seems too little... but it's all I can do.
On 10-22-20 21:20, Charles Pierson wrote to Avon <=-
I feel for you. My wife just got confirmation of Kidney cancer today.
Now we're going over surgery schedules, dietary changes..... It's
rough.
so. We'll support as/when required but for now it's a waiting game.
Oh I hope she's ok. It would be very scary.
Hope you have fun painting.
I'm pretty excited, it's the first time I've built a computer in years, first time one new to me as well in years.
Well, have a nice long weekend. Hope you get a few breaks between
painting :)
The specs sound amazing. I hope you have a lot of fun with the gear and
in building it too :)
It's been a few years now since I last built a new machine. I daydream
about
a newer system with better specs but what I have now (Intel i3 with 12
gig
ram a SSD and 1TB HDD) does the trick for the most part. A new wide
screen
monitor would be rather nice though :)
Thanks, lawns tomorrow while the weather lasts, and probably some more
final
touch ups tomorrow also. Then Monday to crash and wonder why the body
aches
so much. Good times :)
Apam wrote to Avon <=-
I've been building a new computer, I got tired of just scraping in the minimum specs with the "refurbished" "ex-lease" "what i could justify"
PCs :)
Hi all
well it's a long weekend here, on Monday we have Labour Day which means a holiday - yay.
Saturday was fine and sunny and today (Sunday) also looks good, but tomorrow it will again be cold and wet - meh.
I have been working on fsxnet.nz slowly and am adding content from the
old wiki along with pondering new stuff to load in. I can see the site will take some time to get it to where I want it to be but am pleased to be underway.
After doing some shopping and household chores this morning I'm now working on adding a new node to the nodelist and trying to suss a better way to add and remove nodes in the inter-bbs games.
Enjoy your day off and do something fun!
Saturday was fine and sunny and today (Sunday) also looks good, but tomorrow it will again be cold and wet - meh.
Uhh .. it's still Sat. here ... quit wishing our Sat. away FUTURE BOY! :)
On 22 Oct 2022 at 09:06p, seeLive pondered and said...
Enjoy your day off and do something fun!
does trying to add/remove nodes in Galactic Dynasty count ? :)
Thanks, I should be outside now but it's hot and I wanted to play on adding extra content to fsxnet.nz
I'm working on a bit of a wiki page about bbs projects at the moment,
just trying to list out some known active/inactive projects.
well it's a long weekend here, on Monday we have Labour Day which means a holiday - yay.
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