mattie g

Messy and volatile was my Saturday night college wheelhouse (and Friday and Thursday…and maybe Wednesday nights).

Here’s the thing…Target absolutely doesn’t *need* to be open on Thanksgiving. But because other brick-and-mortar stores are open, they’re afraid they’ll lose sales to those other stores on that day and not be able to make them up afterwards. If everyone were closed it wouldn’t make a lick of difference.

I love to cook (and I'm halfway decent at it, if I do say so myself!), so I really enjoy that part of Thanksgiving. I might just sneak in some random menu item that I'll just have to do for myself. I'll definitely enjoy the day though! I've fried turkey a number of times. I really like it, and I've definitely preferred it to some other turkeys I've had in the past. I've also cooked whole and spatchcocked turkeys on the Big Green Egg. I personally like the spatchcocked bird much better, as it cooks really evenly and a lot more quickly. That sounds fantastic!

In-laws decided to have the Thanksgiving feast pre-made and delivered this year. I'll be making one of my family's traditional desserts, and there's another one or two traditional sides that we'll be making today or tomorrow, but otherwise it's all going to be prepared for us. I'm a little bummed, if I'm honest! I get the idea behind doing it that way, but I've always felt that the cooking is more of an event than the eating.

Wait...did he just refer to "Biden Blackouts?" What an embarrassingly unprofessional fuqstiq. Dude's brain is a ball of rot from all the juice he's been juicin'.

Brisk 43 degrees on Hilton Head this morning. Folks are bundled up like we're getting ready to ice fish on the Great Slave Lake.

Pretty crappy drive from Richmond through the northern half of South Carolina today. Wish the rain would have stayed up at home rather than all along the southern half I-95 today…

Winter cancel?

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Thanks! How much/how often should I water and for how long (for how many weeks)? It’s easy enough to do the plants, but the sod is a different story. We’re out of town for a week for Thanksgiving, so I need to give the neighbors very strict instructions on what to do!

Thank goodness the landscaping company finally came today to finish up planting in front of the new porch and laying about 150 sq ft of sod (we got our yard re-graded because of standing water issues). We were expecting them to come about six weeks ago, so hopefully it all takes. It was lots of fun watering it this afternoon.

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In about a month, that's a fun little event.

Doesn't matter. It drives views and clicks, and people will forget about it as soon as the next BrEaKiNg NeWs!!1! hits.

It really does seem like high-latitude blocking wants to stick around, which is obviously one big necessary ingredient if we want to score. If nothing else, it keeps hope alive.

I love how the guesses in the snowfall contest thread fluctuate in response the most recent long-range runs/discussions. If you were to do an analysis of the guesses and compare them to 24 hours worth of ensemble runs, you'd probably see a pretty close correlation between low guesses and bad ensemble looks/analysis and high guesses and good ensemble looks/analysis.

-PNA

He was playing with something...

Those kinds of storms result in nice little 3-6" / 4-8", stressless events in the heart of winter.

I was scared, man. Almost willing to lose my job to get on a flight back to DC to make it in time, and if I hadn't made it, I would have sh*tposted the board to the heavens and sustained a ban the likes of which no one has seen before.

I flew out to LA for a 10-day meeting on the Saturday before. As soon as things started to look like we were really locked in, I started putting heat on the organizers to let the DC folks get back early so that we didn't get stuck out there. I took a redeye Thursday night and landed at IAD the next morning with cloudy skies and cold temps. The whole flight back I was buzzing, and that buzz didn't let up until the snow stopped on Saturday night.

One problem that I can see is that there's a shortwave diving down into the upper Midwest that helps to tug the low up and into the block. I'd also prefer the low heights in Quebec to be father east, but as far as I can tell it's not far from being damn good. I don't know how that would actually play out, but that is a beast of a block and those lower heights in Quebec are on their way to the east. Timing always matters, but I'd take that and see how things shake out as we got closer in time.

I'll always take that look at 500 and worry about the details later.

Might have to do it. Worked out well for Teddy KGB.