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Are They Crazy?!?!?
I had mentioned earlier that my oldest daughter was scheduled to work today at 4:45 AM…….or dark 0’clock as I like to call it. She works in retail and this is the largest retail day of the year….. Black Friday. You would think Black Friday gets the name because of the reputation this day has…..people fighting over bargains, people getting hurt in the rush to get in the stores. Actually it comes from the fact that retailers hope sales on this day will push them from red ink to black ink, or profitability, on their ledger sheets. I’m a bean counter, I know these things. 🙂 Alanna did very well with getting up so…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
At this time of year, I always remember the words from a song……… “Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s House we go…….” I can’t recall the title…..but the words always run through my head when Thanksgiving rolls around for some reason……… “The horse knows the way, to carry the sleigh………” There is also something else I remember when Thanksgiving rolls around……one of my favorite quotes regarding Thanksgiving……. Buffy to Willow: With mom at Aunt Darlene’s this year, I’m not getting a Thanksgiving. Guess maybe that is just as well. Anya: Well, I think that’s a shame, I love a ritual sacrifice. Buffy: Not really so much one…
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Outside My Window ~ 11.15.09
Outside My Window…is no wind and rain! Yeah! Fortunately, the low pressure system that caused us so many problems is well off the coast of North Carolina now. I woke up early and saw some blue skies while the sun was rising, but clouds took over. I just looked outside and it looks like that is attempting to burn off right now. We are at 55F right now with about 87% humidity, but the best part….winds are non-existent!! Our high is suppose to reach 72F today with partly cloudy skies. We are still under a coastal flood watch until around 10 this morning. I guess all the folks right on the coast…
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Howling Winds & Pouring Rain
The forecast today is winds 25 to 40 mph…..gusts of over 60 mph. It continues to rain….much harder now than it was yesterday. Our rainfall total as of 7:30 this morning is 4.93 inches since this event started. And the worst of the rain, wind and flooding is yet to come. The forecasters are saying this is a storm of historic proportions for this area and that it is probably going to be worse than the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962 . I’m feeling a bit anxious about the events yet to come. There are a couple of bridges and tunnels closed……if you aren’t familiar with our area, we have several bridge tunnels that…
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Happy Samhain
Long ago at the end of the third and final harvest, the Celts celebrated Samhain. It was a time to commune with and remember the dead, a celebration of the eternal cycle of reincarnation. One of the possible sources for the origin of the name Samhain is from the Irish Gaelic word “samhraidh read”, which means the summer’s end. It marked the end of summer and the beginning of winter for the Celts. The day after Samhain is the official date of the Celtic New Year. This day was chosen as the date to celebrate because it was at this time the sun was at it’s lowest point on the horizon…
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Wet
I saw on The Weather Channel this morningwe are expected to have back to back coastal storms…….or Nor’easter as they are called. One affecting us today, another on Sunday. I explained a Nor’easter in this post, but the short and simple of it is a nor’easter is like tropical systems we get in the summer, except not so much tropical. They develop and produce cold northeasterly winds and like their summer counterparts, they can move real slow and dump days and days of rain. They generally develop on or off the coast of the mid-Atlantic. We have gotten our fair share of rain today…..with more expected this evening. I haven’t heard so much about strong winds…
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Eureka!
I have discovered my nemisis and it has been defeated! My nemisis….the thing that has been making me crazy with my website is nothing but a random setting on a computer. For months I have been wringing my hands wondering what in the world I did (or didn’t do) to my web site to make it look like this…….. I have been working with this program for over two years and never had these issues until recently. I have been questioning myself, and our departmental System Administrator (by the way Amy ~ thank you for allowing me to pick your “fully loaded html and other web goodies” brain), about what could cause…
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Forecast: Rain
Rain. That is our forecast for the entire weekend. Morning showers….afternoon rain…chance of thunderstorms. In other words, rain. That means the drive home….in the rain. Sometimes that isn’t so bad, but then there are those who cannot drive unless the sun is shining, the pavement is perfectly dry and the stars, sun and moon are aligned just so. If those individuals choose to drive this afternoon, it could mean I’m stuck in traffic on a Friday afternoon again….and unlike a sunny day when you are stuck in traffic, a rainy day doesn’t offer too many photo ops. But sometimes they do……. I wasn’t stuck in traffic when I took this one…..I…
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A Distraction
“I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind I feel like Scarlett O”Hara right now……..I don’t want to think about computer issues and the fact that the web site is not cooperating at all. So I will think about it tomorrow……or maybe even this weekend. I have decided a distraction is in order…….and I have selected my place of employment as the distractor. You see, I work at a very old place……so old in fact that many of our founding fathers attended school here. Yup, we are downright ancient ~ and I have…
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It Didn’t Happen
I was working on publishing the website last night. Generally I don’t have any issues with the program I am using. Generally. It coughed…..it sputtered….it flickered….and it didn’t come together. Unfortunately, my web site is not back up. I’m still scratching my head on this one. :