Scarlet Pimpernel

Have a great birthday! March birthdays are awesome, but perhaps I'm biased!

I will have to say it is kind of cool having a birthday during March Madness (mine is the 25th, next Thursday). However, that said, I still have bad memories of 1988, when Purdue (where I was in school at the time, for undergrad) had an awesome team that year. They were favored to go far in the tourney and were ranked #2 at the end of the season. They got the #1 seed in the Midwest bracket, won the first 2 rounds handily. But then on Friday night, March 25 that year, they LOST a tough one to Kansas State (the 4 seed) in the Sweet 16 by 3 points and had a couple of bad plays at the end that may have cost them. Funny thing is, they played K State earlier in the regular season and won that game big. Oh well!!

Happy belated, Mrs. J!!

All right!!! Go Jackets...cheers to the "Ramblin' Wreck!" I wasn't there during the Storm of the Century...at the time was in Ohio for that, working for a small private forecasting company during the event! We got about 8-12" in northeast Ohio along with blizzard warnings. Closed down the eastern part of the Ohio Turnpike for awhile. Fun time! I also remember that company had a contract to give forecasts to the New York Thruway (God, that was a chore!). I was sending out forecasts of 2-4 *feet* for much of the central and eastern part of the Thruway. It was so unusual that I even got a phone call asking if that was real, and I had to assure them that it was serious!! I think Syracuse, NY got 40" as I recall. Went to Tech about a year or so later for grad school. I did hear how bad it was in the Atlanta area. You mentioned they issued blizzard warnings in a comment you made the other day? Didn't realize that. From what I recall, the official airport measurement was around 4" (unreal for there any time, let alone March!), but parts of the metro area and north got a foot. I read stories about how people along I-75/85 and other major roads got trapped, and just abandoned their vehicles and walked, because it was impossible to drive.

How was the ride back?

Oh sorry, was that cancel culture?

I say the same thing about the Cavs in 2016 when they won the NBA finals! Then suffered through the Indians losing their 2nd World Series game 7 in extra innings (other one was 1997).

Make sure to clear your cicada board every 6 hours and don't slant-stick!

I can ask the same about the posts you have made. You really this obtuse or deliberately trolling? Oy gevalt!

Seriously? Really? Come on, get over yourself and your supposed "victimhood"...yeesh!

Dude... Nothing compared to Cleveland Indians games back in the late '70s and '80s! I attended a number of games and the crowd was definitely sparse! Socially distanced before it was a thing hahaha! And it seemed even emptier at the old Municipal Stadium (where they used to play) with its capacity of 81,000. Friend of mine and I would get the cheap general admission seats and halfway through the game could move up into the good seats. Ushers didn't really care, unless you tried to sneak into a box seat!

Ahhh, I remember taking Latin for a few years as well! My brother, ever the smart-ass about some things (especially growing up), would always say "semper ubi sub ubi!"

Ahh, but of course! Not too long until those will be coming up. (ETA: And thanks, by the way!)

I hate it when weather gets into my beer or food!

Speaking of flowers, here's a snowdrop from the other day. Early spring blooms!

Start a thread!!

This says exactly what I was thinking. This isn't totally a choice of doing something if you personally feel safe, a virus is a completely different animal. It won't only affect you if you choose to participate in some activity, that also could potentially impact others. I totally get wanting to "move on" in some manner. As I said, we all want to get back to some kind of "normalcy" and where case counts and transmissions (including the several variants) are way down and mitigated. I don't think any of us...regardless of views...really *wants* to wear a mask everywhere and not be able to do certain things. As for vaccine availability, if I heard correctly it should essentially be generally available for all (i.e., not just certain groups or ages) by mid-late May? And the amount that's available is increasing rapidly as well. Definitely good things!

Absolutely. Sorry if what I said came off as a bit disrespectful as well. I just found a couple of the other comments to be off-putting (not yours, but others).

LOL! Yeah, this pretty well says it I think. Agree. I hesitated responding earlier as I didn't want to get too much into the controversial/political territory. But felt the need to say a little something because I found a few of the other remarks to be belittling and a bit insulting.

Thank you for this! I honestly get tired of all the calls to just open stuff up, it's time now, etc. I don't even think it's necessarily so much "being scared" as it is being cautious. Honestly, everyone would like to get back to some semblance of normal but as @WxUSAF mentioned earlier, this is no time to spike the ball. Many of the experts (such as Dr. Fauci) have cautioned that while the vaccine is ramping up, that doesn't mean we should just abandon current distancing/masking protocols or start opening everything up in full. At least not yet. I'd rather be overly cautious with this than not. The other issue is that "making your own decision" doesn't only affect you, it potentially affects everyone around you as well. The nature of an airborne virus.

"After further review, the call on the field stands. No pin for you!"

Shortest. Radio Show. Ever!

Especially Dr. No...errr, Evil! "Those weenies are expecting snow in late March! And they'll stay up until 2:00 AM daylight time now to check!!"

If the I-25 corridor there through Denver were like I-95 here, the equivalent of @psuhoffman's location would be about where Sterling is. And we might be hearing concerns about suppression or fringing!

Was going to say either that or their version of Short Pump!!