Post Race!

[dday9]

My mortgage lender had contracted Lyme disease from a tick. She was having convulsions, and her body was shutting down, but the doctors couldn't figure out why. During one of her visits, she mentioned that she hadn't been able to go camping since her convulsions started and that led them to test for Lyme disease. Sure enough...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, that one's scary. I know two people who have it. The symptoms are all over the place. One had his vision double out of nowhere, the other ended up with something similar to severe arthritis. In both cases, it comes and goes.

Another one that would be miserable would be Alpha-gal syndrome from lone star tick bites.

[Peter Porter]

This Photoshop would’ve been perfect if I had found a better rope for the piñata, and if I didn't miss part of the hand from another player that I removed.



The original is here:
https://www.fark.com/comments/137116...is-phoot-phace

[Shaggy Hiker]

I would not have noticed the hand had you not mentioned it.

[dday9]

Geaux Tigers!

[Shaggy Hiker]

After getting snowed on Saturday, it has been blessedly cool for the last couple of days. That will be ending this week, though it looks like we won't be seeing 100 degrees.

[dday9]

Snow? In June?

Is that normal for y'all?

[Shaggy Hiker]

No, that was far from normal. It was a freakish arctic low that swept in. In Boise, we went from a high of 94 to a high in the 70s, to a high of about 65, then went back up. We'll be back in the 90s tomorrow.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was on a trip into the Blue Mountains, so I was at higher elevation. The lows in Boise might have only been in the low 40s, but where I was it was down around freezing (so perhaps it was lower in Boise, but I wasn't there). I don't think we got a real frost, and the ground was too warm for snow to stick, even briefly, but it was snowing.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I wouldn't mind some more of that. Perhaps I'll get some. Maybe by October?

[Shaggy Hiker]

We might top the triple digits, today. That'll be fun.

[dday9]

I just looked at the weather app and its showing 86f with 75% humidity with a feels like of 100f.

But its odd, even though that sounds high, it hasn't been as hot as it was last summer. Don't get me wrong, it's hot, it's just not the "omg I will die if I take one more step" hot.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We could have a wet Independence Day. That would be an interesting change.

Fireworks are illegal in Idaho, so they are sold all over the place, but you have to sign a piece of paper saying you won't set them off in the state. That goes about as well as you might expect. Around sundown on the 4th, the explosions start. I've given up trying to go to sleep before midnight. Instead, I just get up and wander the streets watching people set of hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars worth of 'illegal' fireworks. There is zero enforcement, so the law probably shouldn't even be there. It might be there so that the police have some kind of leverage if somebody does something extra stupid (like setting the Boise foothills on fire, as has happened).

Now, the forecast is for rain during the day and a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon/evening. Out here, that means that the thunderstorms will happen, it's just a question of where they hit. That could dampen people's enthusiasm, along with their fireworks.

[dday9]

I always think of my brother for Independence Day. He's 100% disabled with the VA because of a TBI he suffered after hitting an IED in Afghanistan. Even though its been years, he still freaks out and usually resorts to... well he has to force himself to sleep.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, it would certainly take something out here. Leaving the valley for the mountains is necessary for getting to sleep before midnight. Some of the mortars shake the windows.

Drives dogs crazy. Lots of sedatives used to keep them relaxed that night.

[Jacob Roman]

We don't get snow or mountains in Florida sadly. Nothing but overpriced swampland.

[dday9]

I saw a statistic floating around that really blew my mind. So far this year, New Orleans has had more snowfall and a lower average temperature than Philidelphia.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You have had snow in Miami...one time in recorded history, I believe. I wasn't there for that, but moved to the Keys a year or two after that....perhaps. I'm not sure the snow was associated with the same storm event that brought a freeze to the Keys and killed massive numbers of mangroves. That frost kill was very evident when I moved there, but that may or may not have been the storm that brought the snow.

[wes4dbt]

I saw a statistic floating around that really blew my mind. So far this year, New Orleans has had more snowfall and a lower average temperature than Philidelphia.

That is surprising. I didn't think New Orleans ever got snow.

[dday9]

We had that blizzard earlier this year. I had never experienced anything like that in my life. I was wonderful and terrifying at the same time.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Was the terrifying part the other drivers?

[dday9]

Oh, there were zero drivers (other than the Sherrif deputies). I had just never seen snow so thick and windy to where I could only see a couple of feet in front of me before.

[wes4dbt]

Boy did I have a fun afternoon. I had to setup a new router because my old one went bad. It was suppose to come with the same Name and password but it didn't. I had gotten a new router from ATT before and it went smooth but this one wasn't setup properly. The tech support guy I got said he couldn't reset the name and password even though the day before they said they could. Kept aski9ng me for the Name and Password from the sticker on the new box but there wasn't a sticker. That stumped him. Anyway I found a way to reset it myself but because of my sloppy handwriting I mistook a q for as g and had to do it twice. Then my phone line wasn't working (it goes thru the router). The tech said I had a bad cable and there wasn't anything he could do. I went to replace the cable and found that there was a piece plastic film in the jack.

I need a nap. lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

Remove film before use.

[wes4dbt]

Remove film before use.

Late but useful advise.

[Zvoni]

"Summer is coming......"

[Shaggy Hiker]

Late but useful advise.

I forget what it was, but I remember that I had some piece of computer equipment for several years before I realized that there was a film covering part of it that could be removed.

[wes4dbt]

I forget what it was, but I remember that I had some piece of computer equipment for several years before I realized that there was a film covering part of it that could be removed.

I don't know it there was a film covering that port that I didn't notice and I somehow shoved the phone jack through it or if it was a stray piece that got in the port. None of the other ports had film over them.

It kind of scary how many things I use the router for. Multiple computers, phones, lights, cameras, several echo devices, TV's.

[dday9]

I still have my mom’s AC/DC money talks dollar. She went to their show, pregnant with me, and some big dude bumped her to get some of the money. A security guard saw, kicked him out, and gave her the dollar.

[wes4dbt]

The longevity of some bands amazes me. I think Angus Young is still playing and he's 70. I guess that's young if you compared it to some of guys still playing.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I think Angus Young is still playing and he's 70. I guess that's young if you compared it to some of guys still playing.

well, it's young, of course, Angus Young.

[wes4dbt]

well, it's young, of course, Angus Young.

I knew I was right.

[Shaggy Hiker]

So far, we seem to be avoiding fires. Of course, we're barely into July, so that will change...perhaps tomorrow as another round of storms is coming through.

[Shaggy Hiker]

One thing is consistent: It will be a bad fire year....as it always is.

If we have a dry winter, then we go into the summer extra dry, which results in a bad fire year.
If we have a wet winter, then more fuel builds up in the spring, which results in a bad fire year.

I don't know whether I have heard anybody specifically state that every year will be worse than average for fire, but it sure feels like every year I hear that it will be worse than average. Of course, that isn't possible, so perhaps people are using more precise language. I do see that fire officials are saying that we have greater potential for significant fires this year. That is sufficiently precise to be true and sufficiently imprecise (greater than what?) to allow that EVERY year has greater potential out here.

[dday9]

The ancient temple in Athens draws millions of visitors each year. But authorities were forced to close it off to protect tourists and workers from extreme heat.Greek authorities closed the Acropolis for Tuesday afternoon to protect workers and tourists during a four-day heat wave.

Temperatures were expected to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) in Athens.

Shutdown over 100 degrees? -shouts obnoxiously- WEAAAAAK!

[wes4dbt]

Greece is dealing with another pretty bad fire season. Though I don't think they are close to Athens.

I thought 100 degree temps this time of year was fairly normal this time of year.

[dday9]

This time of year they are here this time of year.

[dday9]

/short

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, the Germans are in the Everglades and the Greeks are there...or somewhere.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I could believe that they often don't get quite that hot. They're by the sea, which might keep it a bit cooler. Sapator should be weighing in on that, and since he hasn't, he's either on vacation or he melted.