Post Race!

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Originally Posted by Peter Porter

You should see how it is where I work. Everyone, young and old, staring at their phones in the break room. You can hear a pin drop. Over 10 years ago it was lively. Now it feels like being at a mass funeral, where no one has surviving family members or friends attending, but it’s still happening, while the funeral director is staring at his phone.

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I try to avoid that. We didn't have it where I worked.

I don't follow much of anything on my phone. That isn't just because service is spotty in this state.

Who ever comes up with an affordable and reliable way of hands free viewing, browsing, texting and phoning will become very rich. My guess is it will happen within 10yrs.

After that??? Maybe we become the Borg. :)

I worked with a Borg. At least, that's what his name was. Not sure whether he was mechanical or not.

This has not been much of a winter. I'm thinking of going for a long bike ride tomorrow, as it should reach the mid 50s. What little snow we have gotten is all going away.

Sure getting a lot of use out of my season pass for the ski area. Oh well, they could use the support. They're trying to transition into year round activities, which will become ever more necessary for relatively dry ski hills.

I went for a long bike ride today. I've never done that in January, before. Very strange to have mid-50s in January up here.

The snowpack for the whole state is back to dismal. At one point, I saw all the northern basins being above average. I don't know if that was a temporary error in the report, or it was actually true and the warm weather has since melted back the snow. I suspect the former. In any case almost every basin is above average to well above average for precipitation, but only one or two are above average for snow pack. The rest are FAR below.

We've been getting lots of rain here in the valley but probably not much snow in the mountain. It's been a warm storm.

Well, this week might change things up here...or not. It will get colder, and there might be snow down to the valleys, but not sure whether it will amount to much total precipitation, so it still probably won't open the skiing.

It had been my intention to get up cross country skiing several mornings each week, now that I'm retired. That has not worked out. Skiing on grass doesn't work so well.

Local news has been reporting that our city had ZERO homicides in 2025. For a city of 220K that pretty good.

I got a feeling that it was more luck than anything else. There were plenty of shooting.

But I'll take it. Much rather have good luck than bad luck.

There were zero in my house, too. I'll take that.

Has that been a problem in the past???

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I worked with a Borg. At least, that's what his name was. Not sure whether he was mechanical or not.

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I work with a bunch of Bourgs. My wife is even related to a few.

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Originally Posted by wes4dbt

Has that been a problem in the past???

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Let me ask the ghosts...

Or the goats. I could ask them just as easily as the ghosts, since I don't seem to have either one.

We finally got a sunny day. It was windy but it was sure nice to see the sun.

I had the studded tires switched onto my car, since I might actually drive on some ice and snow this winter. Might not, too.

The tire place was two to three miles from my house, so I dropped off the car and walked home. Should have been fine...except that by the time they called me to say that the car was done, rain was starting. I was a bit damp by the time I got back there.

It's still a pretty sad winter, but there is still time to turn things around.