WhitinsvilleWX

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

The concern is growing.

 

Stein, Stein, everywhere there's Stein

On 5/8/2022 at 12:00 AM, UMB WX said:

snowflakes yr around for you.   pathetic man .. move on

LOL

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

  Likewise a company can just chose to part ways as well.

 

Well not really. On paper, yes. In practice, no.

It takes months and months. And then you have to document, write up Performance Improvement Plans, and go through a million hoops. I’ve had to fire 3 employees over the years. The last one took 10 months to get the process completed start to finish. 

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Most folks would quit . Balls up and walk 

Lol. Have to feed the family. I make way too much to walk. But yea, a lot of the lab folks have talked about “working from home” for about 6 weeks and see how long it takes to get this crap gone when the lab work doesn’t get done. 

42 minutes ago, Tolland Death Band said:

That is pathetic. Sorry your company is so lame and anti-science. You are in the .01% of organizations still carrying on with such nonsense, I’m sorry to tell you

I work for a pharma company. Lol

Anti science is right though. But it’s not us scientists making these decisions. It’s the lawyers and business types. They’ll follow the CDC guidelines as a CYA. If the cdc dropped the color coded non sense, we wouldn’t be doing it. I’m hoping this orange level only lasts a few weeks. Reminds me of the silly terror alert levels we used to have 15 years ago.

All it’s doing is driving everyone back home again, except us that have to work onsite because we have no choice. 
That 10.1 number is what did it. Yesterday  it was 9.7 and we were fine. It went to 10.1 this morning and we got the email at 2:30 this afternoon we were back in masks. Oh well.

6 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

just like last year where there was a 4-6wk reprieve around the same time then cases and masks started creeping back to then retreat by July, then head up towards Fall. Seasonality. 

I’m just tired of the masking. Nowhere else do I have to wear it.  I think this time the compliance will be pretty low. Get past security and they’ll come down. I’m not sitting there again 8 hours a day in a mask.  Fook that.  And the hybrid folks will be gone again. Not like there were many back anyway. This will drive them home again. 
Mask 8 hours a day? Or Zoom in shorts and barefoot and outside in May/June. 

So my 401 is down 200k since Jan ‘21, unsightly’s can now go topless on Nantucket, and worst of all,  my company put us back in masks an hour ago. 
Mandatory. But we can sit together and eat lunch for an hour until we go back in the lab or at our desk. All hybrid employees can use their own judgement as to how safe it is to come in to the office. 
Im praying we go back yellow soon. It was a great 7 weeks maskless though. 

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I don't like personally running in the cold either...  I mean, I hear others that run, some regularly gush about 50s being ideal - uh...really? 

I like it about 66 to 72.  Sweat kicks in by mile two, and then that's plenty of cooling through evaporation to not get too hot.  Above that... yeah, if it's very sunny and still air, ...open terrain with no shade, that goes the other way.  80 F is too warm for example.  But I have... I once ran in 89 F because the gym was closed and needed to get my 5 miles in.  Oh man - I think it took two days to shake that weird feeling that it left behind.  I was pie -eyed when I came down my street and set to walking it off, but had to get to the sink for cold water on the neck. I think I borderline overheated. 

But less than about 65 is doable but for every degree down, ... by the low 50s?   I've spent too much time up front getting lithe and lubed by my own body heat... Then the run's over. Don't feel like I even sweat enough because of it.  I even think the next day something is arguing and achy for doing it more so.   Cold sucks.  It pulls the will out of you.  And putting up those tepid times like you described doesn't surprise me.   But everyone's got their range.  For some... running in cold is preferred. 

He hates running in the cold. But he doesn't do distance. He does for conditioning, but he's a sprinter. 100 m and 4x100. Its over in less than 12 seconds (hopefully). To sprint you gotta get loose or you'll get hurt.

Hopefully 70 pans out here. Murky and damp here. 53. YUCK

The Boys track meet got postponed until tomorrow. He ran last Wednesday in Marlboro. It was 52, gusty and miserable. They got there at 3:30 but didn't run until after 5 when the throwers got through. By then they are all cold and stiff.  Times were way off. He usually runs  11.7-ish 100 m, but he was at 12 flat. Everyone else was slow too. 

This month so far reinforces my strong thoughts that April blows.

If I could leave NE for part of the year I'd go mid March to mid May. Those 60 days are ass. I have zero use for cloudy and 48-52 for a high.

Got sun on my nape yesterday. Today not so much.

May is a week from today and it’s still deep stick season here. Even the early maples are still pretty much in stick mode. Oaks say it’s January.

I was at 30 degrees I think Wednesday morning 

Graupel!!

10 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Stein, Stein, everywhere there's Stein

28 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

A perfect example of this is the movie Downfall.  By far one of my favorite WWII movies.  The film captures the final 10 days of Hitler's life, and the actor who plays Hitler was unbelievable, and gave me goosebumps so many times throughout the film.  It is so much more enjoyable watching in German with the English subtitles.  

 

39 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Commute was a disaster

Framingham to 128 on the pike was bad. People doing 80, then hit the snow. Was so heavy that vis was down to maybe 500 yards at one point. 80 mph to 20 in about 20 seconds. Slick, and absolutely no treatment. 

22 hours ago, PhineasC said:

Mosquito larvae are in your ear now. Squirming and breeding. Do you feel them now?

Wrath of Khan Chekov action.

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

Lovely. Can we start talking about less evil things like diarrhea on snowmobile trips

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Even covid talk beats this

15 hours ago, IowaStorm05 said:

I was telling people at work that in our world spring begins March 1. The laymen public observance of the seasons starting at solstice and equinox is fooey.

Spring is well underway by the second week of March… even if there is still an occasional snow the overall pattern trends warmer once you hit March.

Tip's spring starts in February when the sun starts to warm his nape through the car window.

(truth be told, mine too)

15 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

No picnic??? It was heavy sheet drizzle and rain that Saturday of memorial day weekend, and in the 40’s here. Absolutely Horrid!  

Yes,  I picnic was an understatement. How bout…was a shyte sandwich dripping with runny rhea? 

9 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Yup. It’s difficult to bid on houses sometimes $100-130k more than the current owner paid just 18-24 months ago in some instances. Of course, my bids have been unsuccessful. Competing with cash buyers in the $450-500k range is difficult to say the least. 

It’ll come down. I wouldn’t be a buyer at these prices. You’ll be stuck underwater like people were that bought into a high housing market 14-15 years ago. 

First day at work in almost 2 years with no mask. It was awesome. 

14 minutes ago, Hoth said:

That's cool; you've built some nice equity. When did you buy? You surely didn't know it at the time, but you were lucky to time your purchase before valuations really went nuts in all the Boston suburbs. My brother lucked out too. Paid 400k for his place four years ago, which is now valued at 725k. This is ridiculous appreciation and totally unsustainable and he knows it, but it gave him a chuckle.

Nor'easter is in a different spot, considering entering the market now with already extreme prices, the prospect of rising interest rates increasing borrowing costs and a softening economy. Is it any wonder why home buyer sentiment is at multi-decade lows? Given that prices have gone up much much faster than wages, your average buyer right now is in many cases stretching their means to get a house--especially since they are often competing against large private equity firms that can borrow dirt cheap and put in cash bids above offer. A lot of folks buying now could potentially find themselves in trouble if the economy tanks.

I bought mine in 2008 right during the bust. Paid 450. Got the mortgage down to 175. I’ll pay it off in -5 more. House up the street is almost like mine and on the market. They want 730 and will most likely get it.

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

2003 was brutal. 2004 had some shit days too in May I remember. 2005 had a nasty Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day last year was no picnic. Neither was July 4th. 
And I remember 2005. Wife was out of town. Had my sites set on 3 days of golf. Nope!

28 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Opening day is April 7!!!

 

Baseball is back!!!

Best news ive heard in a week, maybe a month

21 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Where does gas come from?

Different wells than oil. Geological formations are different.

The north east has very little natural gas available. No pipelines like there are in other parts of the country. That's why we have so much heating oil. Outside of the north east and pockets here and there, nobody else knows what heating oil is. 

 New nuclear tech isn't like the old 3 mile island, chernobyl, etc. Smaller plants can be built and the tech is much better. No electricity anywhere in the US should be generated by fossil fuel. save that for gas and diesel. Nuclear plants should supply most of our power.