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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 07:43 PM
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Ever feel oddly ripped off when the weather bozos get it wrong?
Every teevee station in the area has had "ZOMD! HOT!" scare forecasts for the last coupla days, including Extreme Heat Advisories and "How to Beat the Heat" segments. It was supposed to be 97-100 degrees today and up to 105 tomorrow. Instead, we topped out at about 90, and it's already down to 82.

I was emotionally primed for Fucking Hot, but all we got was Hot.



I want my money back. x(
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:32 PM
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1. Today I was actually HAPPY about it.
I need to build up tolerance over the next two months before I'm ready for the inland heat.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:43 PM
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4. Up There too, huh?
Yeah, wasn't it sposta be like 98 around Walnut Creek/Concord?

I admit I was kinda relieved, but still — I was ready. I had my Fucking Hot Face on. :evilfrown:
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:50 PM
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7. You had your Fucking Hot Face on? Really?

As opposed to your Hot Fucking Face?


;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:10 PM
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9. Well, see...
My Hot Fucking Face looks like this:
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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:27 PM
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16. Wow, you are brave.

Showing your Hot Fucking face to all the world like that. Not too many people have seen my Hot Fucking face. Prolly a good thing, I'd imagine it looks sommat goofy without the sound.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:01 PM
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17. I don't think I've seen your Hot Fucking Face
Have I? :shrug:
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 10:05 PM
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15. Yeah, but it was breezy and never felt hot today.
I think it was in the mid-90s for about an hour.

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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:36 PM
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2. You know what REALLY browns me off?
When they say it's gonna be shitty, so I plan not to do anything that day and maybe even do some shopping the day before -- and then it's NICE after all! :banghead:
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:38 PM
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3. North wind blowing down the Sacramento Valley
High clouds, too. When the wind stops, it will be hot. Perhaps tomorrow, or by the weekend for sure.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:47 PM
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5. I hate it when forecasts call for rain...
...so I drive to work, and it ends up being a gorgeous day on which I could have ridden my bike. Happened 3 straight goddamn days last week, that really annoyed me.

The opposite heavily bums me out too, of course, but for whatever reason, it doesn't happen nearly as often. :shrug:
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 08:47 PM
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6. Yeah, I was all prepared for rain yesterday and it never came.
And yet today when I wasn't expecting it... *pitter patter pitter patter*
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:00 PM
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8. We did not get the heat we were supposed to.
But Mount Baldy is on fire so we really do not want the heat (even if ole Baldy is like 80 miles from here).
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:12 PM
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10. Only when they promise rain, and I don't get any rain
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:14 PM
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11. Twice last winter the schools here were closed because
Edited on Wed May-14-08 09:47 PM by mycritters2
they were predicting the ice storm of the century. It didn't get cold enough to freeze either time, so the kids got a couple of rain days! So, some people are more stupid than the weather bozos...namely, the school bozos.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:35 PM
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12. Don't even get me started
I brought in tequila and margarita mix and vodka and wine coolers by the palletload. Worked my butt off today too putting it all out (too tired to post a photo of me with no butt - sorry).

Damn well BETTER get hot - I need to sell this stuff. :grr:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:41 PM
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13. You're abetting people in getting plowed in the heat?
Tsk. :spank:
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 09:46 PM
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14. Not in Michigan. :)
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:03 PM
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18. It was effing hot here today, thank you very much.
:P

tomorrow is supposed to be the killer hot day. They're saying 90 on the beach in Santa Cruz, low 100's in Scotts Valley.

Yowsah! ShineGirl has a softball game at 5 pm tomorrow. That should be interesting.....

:hi: We're sleeping with the windows open tonite.


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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:09 PM
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20. Yeah, that's what they said this morning
Then we got a bit o' breeze and high clouds.

Maybe the weather bozos got it a day early. Maybe tomorrow's gonna be today and... nemmind, I'm already confused. :crazy:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:06 PM
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19. c'mere...
:hug:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:11 PM
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21. Hey, Connie just linked me a song
that made me think o' you. :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YmnY18btB54



:hug:
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:21 PM
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22. LOL!
:rofl:

My ex is a percussionist. Thankfully, he never played that piece...

:D
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:24 PM
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23. The first one she linked me
sounded like Sing Along with Mitch. I could just see him, pumpin' those arms like he was tryin' to fly away.

I said I'd rather hear it from the '30s, the way it was meant to be.

Love that xylophone. So Betty Boopish. :D
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:27 PM
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24. Betty Boopish...
you're right! ;)

It's interesting. That sound would be totally unacceptable if a percussionist was looking for a xylophone today. A lot of the sound has to do with the types of mallets, but still...
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:33 PM
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26. Today, they'd synthesize it
x(



I love that sound because it's FUNKaayyy, and it reminds me of my first love:













Oops. :D
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:39 PM
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27. uh, yeah....




























oops...
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 11:32 PM
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25. I only get mad when the weather idjits are totally stupid
For instance, when our area was three years into a severe drought and we had a slight chance of rain for the first time in months. The blonde bimbo weather person was on air whining about how that would ruin her weekend at the beach. I think she lasted another two weeks until they could find another idjit to take her place.

Most of the time the weather announcers (cause few actually are meteorologists) are just reading from their scripts provided by a weather service for the station. They have no clue as to what will really happen. So I rely on the National Weather Service (http://nws.noaa.gov/) for my planning - and they are wrong on a regular basis.
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