Update Update

[WilliamVance]

Watching 'Up'. A great movie and some fun music to play.

I love that movie... A little sad and happy at the same time. The dog is great as well!

[Dan Schultz]

Watching 'Up'. A great movie and some fun music to play.

I love that movie... A little sad and happy at the same time. The dog is great as well!

Squirrel!

[Ken Herrick]

Awwwww, c'mon Schleppy, you couldn't hate anything - after all, you keep your cool runnin this place.

When I was a kid, growing up in Illinois, we had a black walnut tree (MY tree) outside the house. It was very interesting watching the squirrels, especially in autumn as they harvested walnuts for winter.

An uncle had GOOD reason to hate them. He hand fed a very tame albino which lived in his yard. One day it bit him - RABIES!!! The Pasteur series was not fun.

After years of living in Oz it was amusing to see the little fellas running around when I visited the states again.

Oh yes, when I was a kid, we'd go squirrel hunting - .22 out the window. used to eat the little critters.

You have now been BACKdated a half century - or more...........

[sousaphone68]

Squirrels are nothing but rats with good PR

[sousaphone68]

With the world's attention focused on Sochi, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at some of the earliest Winter Olympics. At the first Winter Games in 1924 in Chamonix, France, 16 countries sent 250 athletes to compete in familiar sports like bobsleigh and hockey. The 1936 Winte...

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014 ... cs/100679/" target="_blank

In the middle of this photo essay is a massed band at the Squaw Valley Olympics.
Anybody here in the photo?

[Chuck Jackson]

I'm sure NOBODY wants to hear this, but after living in Las Vegas for the better part of 16years I have NEVER seen this. Today, February 17, 2014, I was in shorts, flips, and a short sleeved shirt driving around town with my A/C on. Temp? 83 degrees. Having two sisters who live in Upstate NY and a brother in Milwaukee, I know things are bad, but this is amazing. My heart goes out to those back East what with all the snow and such. A local forecaster said that there is a good chance it will hit 90 this week. Remember, it's a dry heat.

Chuck"flummoxed"Jackson

[bisontuba]

Hi-
This a Winter has been awful, but the 'bad part' is just beginning---road 'pot holes' from the extreme fluctuation of temps and massive salting of the roads have crested 'craters' in the roads. Never seen roads this bad--- some of them look like 'sink holes.' Also, the extreme cold has killed over 90% of the grape crop for this year-- 2014 will be a bad year for NYS wine....
Mark

[Ken Herrick]

Having just read that cimbassos were really tubas and not something to be hated, or something along those lines, I've come to the conclusion that I have spent WAY too much time lookin at his place. gonna go start training some young horses in the morning instead of reading about blatofartofonyisms.

You have now been updated to a day into your future.

[Chuck Jackson]

Hi-
This a Winter has been awful, but the 'bad part' is just beginning---road 'pot holes' from the extreme fluctuation of temps and massive salting of the roads have crested 'craters' in the roads. Never seen roads this bad--- some of them look like 'sink holes.' Also, the extreme cold has killed over 90% of the grape crop for this year-- 2014 will be a bad year for NYS wine....
Mark

Having grown up in Rome, NY, I feel your pain. One of my sisters lives outside Canadaigua and the other in Syracuse (she calls is Sibercuse). They say this is one of the worst winters they can recall, and that's saying alot. The vineyards will be damaged, almost as much as the roads. I remember the winter of 1976 when we were snowbound for 5 days with snowdrifts covering our entire garage. They had to get the runway snowblowers from Griffis AFB to clear the main drag through town. I honestly don't miss it. Then again, on my birthday last year it was 114 in the valley. Pick your poison.

Chuck

[Dan Schultz]

54 degrees here at the moment. I actually got out the hose and washed the bird **** off the sidewalks and deck. There's still plenty of ice on the ground in shady spots but at least there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel!

[bearphonium]

2 rounds of snow, with accumulated amounts of 10 inches, (almost unheard of in this part of Oregon) several records for low temperatures, plus tying the all time low temperature mark and 25% of normal rainfall amounts...until this week, with several records set for rainfall. This is a wonky winter. We are still at 30% of normal rainfall, and less than 50% of snowpack. We'll see how wonky the summer is.

[tbn.al]

I hope the weather didn't hurt the Washington, Oregon wine crops. I sure don't want to miss a year without my favorite libation.

[bort]

Or the hops!!!!!!

[Dan Schultz]

Took my Blazer in today to have an oxygen sensor changed out. Guess what??? .... that damned 'service engine soon' light turned off on the way! I had the sensor replaced anyway.

When the tech ran the engine a while to check things out, he spotted a coolant drip. Six months after I bought it (three years ago) I had to start topping off the coolant between oil changes.... maybe a quart every three months. Not too much to be concerned about and from what I had read about the Vortek V6... it was likely to be an intake manifold gasket leaking. The amount of coolant I've had to add has increased to about 1/2 gallon every three months. There still wasn't anything dripping under the car.... at least not until this morning.

I left the Blazer at the shop and they will be replacing the intake manifold gaskets in the next day or so. It's going to be fairly expensive but at least the coolant mystery will be over.

[windshieldbug]

that damned 'service engine soon' light turned off on the way!

I've heard several people say similar things every spring.
Had the same thing happen to our Honda, too.

I'm no expert, nor do I even play one on TV, but my working theory is that when some companies switch over from winter to R-O-Y mix, those underground tanks sometimes have a VERY odd combination of fuel.

Getting a couple of tanks at a different station usually does the trick for us...

[scottw]

Yep, blame poor granny! She only has a nip now and then for her hip condition, you know.

[windshieldbug]

attn: female heroin addict tubenet subscribers.

Just in case you missed this google ad, it may (??) be of interest to you...

Gee Joe, for that to pop up on the side of your Tubenet screen, Google must have some VERY interesting search history filed away for you!

[bort]

RIP Harold Ramis.

[tbn.al]

Seriously guys, I have been seeing some pretty strange stuff on tubenet alone recently. No other sites are affected. Mostly pop ups that come up in the middle of the screen unexpectedly. I finally ran a cleaner and turned up a bunch of suspicious files. Now they are gone and no more pop ups. Can't understand why only tubenet was affected though?

[davidgilbreath]

Pulled this from a Facebook post about health coverage:

"Breast pimps are covered under the ACA- no matter your insurance."