[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

If you've been watching the playoffs and World Series, you know what the weather's been like around here. Finally some fall weather after an oppressive Indian summer.
 
We got a light dusting of snow last night, and might get a bit more tonight. Too bad it's still too warm during the day for it to stick around.
 
It's not even 7am and it's already 79 outside with copious amounts of humidity. Also... frelling vog because of the trade winds being nonexistent. My kid sounds like he's swallowed a bullfrog because of it.
 
My friends in DE are saying that Sandy could also merge with a winter storm and wreak havoc from Rehoboth Beach northward.
You know, if it weren't for the potential loss of life, the massive amount of money it takes to clean up storms like that, and the fact that I live on the other side of the freakin' country; that would be awesome.
 
Yeah... aren't you up in NJ, Yoshimickster? You know there's a chance that Hurricane Sandy could hit your part of the country as a TS or TD this weekend, right?
CALLED IT! There is no such thing as continuous nice weather! And I am prepared. BRING IT ON SANDY!

Edit:
Though I probably shouldn't press my luck, a black cat did cross my path today, and on my birthday a crow landed on my house. Well *clap* been nice knowing you Halforums!
 
As long as all those other morons on the road don't have to drive in it at the same time as me or my loved ones, I love snow. Unfortunately, that's not possible, so, urk.
So far we've had nice, slightly cooling, autumn weather here, though. Maybe 18°-20°C in daytime, some 8° or 9°C at night? Slowly cooling and rain's coming up soon, but oh well. Can't really complain so far.

However, all of you people living where it's either already snowing, or where it's still too hot to have a cup of cocoa, are clearly living outside this planet's inhabitable zone and need to move further from/closer to the equator.
 
I'm stuck in a cascading fail-over of bad cooking experiences. They happen from time to time, some dish I'm making goes wrong, either because I screw up a technique (pretty rare, actually), because the ingredients let me down (getting more and more frequent, sadly), or just because the dish doesn't work; and then I have trouble clearing my head from the bad dish and things just start cascading. I hope it clears up soon, because it's a real pain in the ass.
 
%^*(^) Biased Tournament Selection Committee. Granite Peak had a SOLID season this year, and it wasn't their fault that we had that sudden warmup three weeks after a blizzard made for the best base in central Wisconsin.
 
My school has the worst fucking cell-phone reception- EVER! There is this radio tower right there that messes with just about all transmissions from cell-phones to basic wifi. I have to walk around the whole fucking campus to find even an iota of a signal. And when I DO get a call through the calls have a bunch of breaks in them so both parties can hardly ever figure out what the other is saying. Atlantic Cape Community College: inconveniencing students since 1964!
 
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My school has the worst fucking cell-phone reception- EVER! There is this radio tower right there that messes with just about all transmissions from cell-phones to basic wifi. I have to walk around the whole fucking campus to find even an iota of a signal. And when I DO get a call through the calls have a bunch of breaks in them so both parties can hardly ever figure out what the other is saying. Atlantic Cape Community College: inconveniencing students since 1964!
That's a first world problem if I ever heard one. :p
 
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That's a first world problem if I ever heard one. :p
But is it, anymore? I mean, sure... it's not wondering where your next meal is going to come from, or having to live on the streets because your job was cut during the recession; but what if you have to submit homework online and can't because the radio tower is screwing up campus-wide wifi?
 
But is it, anymore? I mean, sure... it's not wondering where your next meal is going to come from, or having to live on the streets because your job was cut during the recession; but what if you have to submit homework online and can't because the radio tower is screwing up campus-wide wifi?
Hasn't happened to me yet, but some people have had this problem. Plus I don't even have a car any more so if I can't get a call to my parents I'll be stuck there for fucking hours.
 
Could be worse. You could live someplace where there are gaps so wide between cell towers that you lose calls regularly when you're just driving to and from work.
 
Learn to text. The text messaging system uses the cell phone control channel which is not only more powerful, but sends in such short bursts that it almost always goes through. It's this channel that tells you how many bars you have, even though you might get terrible voice reception. As long as you have one or two bars, texts will likely go through.

And yes, you can teach your parents to text. Or to at least read texts.
This is true, but sometimes those don't go through either. My school's cell-reception is that bad.
 
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