We're having the opposite. It was cold yesterday and today, but dry. Precipitation starts up again tomorrow, but it will also warm until the snow level reaches 7500', which means rain on the ski slopes. It has not been much of a winter, thus far.
My Motorola phone is...old. I don't even know how old. I bought it because it had a lot of battery life, which was important as I was using it for navigation while biking. It still works fine.
I'm still a landline person. I only use a cell phone for when I go somewhere, just in case of an emergency. I can't remember the last time I called someone on it. So my cell phone lasts a long time.
For most though, their cell phone has become indispensable. It's interesting how powerful of a life tool they have become.
I don't use my cell phone for much. Texting is convenient, though. People don't have to be around, and they don't really need to check messages, or at least it is easier to do so.
Yeah, even for backpackers. You pretty much know where you get service because people congregate there.
Some of it I understand and some makes no sense to me. They use there phone things like reading the news, watching video clip , streaming shows and even movies. Unless you don't own a computer or a TV, why stare at a 7" screen.
But it's pretty common for old people to think young people are crazy.
But it's pretty common for old people to think young people are crazy.
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.
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.
I try to avoid that. We didn't have it where I worked.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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