powderfreak

I’m 100% with you. And MLB has had some of its highest ratings in TV in years and MLB TV is having a monster season. A lot of younger fans are not watching their local teams but other teams with superstars like Tatis Jr, Vladdy Jr, etc. Theres a lot more cross team watching going on than ever before. 9 innings or bust IMO. Don’t mess with game length.

I only like it if my team is winning after 7. Otherwise lets play 9 .

Yeah I just quoted that post for the observation, didn’t mean to imply agreement with the hyperbole . Another weenie obs is the change in rain drops today… morning was like lazy fat drops barely wetting the pavement and this evening is soaking small droplet stuff despite similar radar echoes. I mentioned it to the wife while driving and she goes “You’re a fukkin’ nerd you know that.” Love her, ha.

Even today, what a change in humidity with the warm front. MVL dew was 50F this morning and it’s now up to 67F. You could feel the swamp move in all afternoon. It’s just as noticeable as those cold front days when it does the reverse. Like two different days. Sweaty in the garden this evening.

Oh you there. New season. Regression is a biatch. This is like a winter where the coast defies odds and gets buried in snow Thanksgiving to New Years while the deeper interior watches it happen. Then February and March go full huggers for two months and everyone evens out relative to normal.

Yeah the Sox win that one in the first half of season, lol. Flip flops. Pretty even game, Yanks took it. Both bullpens just try as hard as possible to urinate down their legs. Kiki in the 9th swung badly at ball 4.

Needed two more innings of the bullpen fun for sure. We are getting screwed out of 4 innings of absolute mayhem between these two bullpens today. It was good entertainment, one of 162, onto tonight.

Ha! My bad don’t know why I only did 60. That’s legit.

Yeah that’s some water. GGEM/GFS/UK all similar axis on the whole with some slight variations.

Happened in that Halloween wind/rain storm a few years ago… total washout by Topnotch Resort lol. Luckily we were on the society side of that one but couldn’t get to work for a couple days. Like in Backedge’s area earlier this summer, get a good quick 3”+ in VT topography and you get problems in a hurry. We do seem to do flash flooding with the best of them in the Greens.

Wild wedge. Even a spot 57-59F there in the Lakes region?

Looks like a nice pocket of mid-70s at the official stations on the NAM.... add the 3-5F for the PWS variation.

DIT steering the ship to fit his desires. Mind control.

I bet we'd be surprised who uses Venmo already. That's also helped take cash out, hear that a lot around here too. Coffee shops in town or getting beers... "I'll just put it on my card and you guys can Venmo me" and often it seems like the money is already transferred before the bill is paid. Pretty sure my sister in NYC uses Venmo on a daily basis for sharing coffees, lunch, happy hour, whatever. Even buying lunch from street vendors they seem to split it that way.

Thats my favorite ski size for the east. My last was Fisher Ranger 98s. Waist in that 98-100 is perfect IMO for all mountain skiing in variable snow surfaces.

They make those in a 110? I thought I’d only seen 90. That’s got some beef to it if it’s 110! I just picked up some 180cm Blizzard Rustler 10s from a rep, excited to try them out.

They may not even say it, or open comments back up in a couple days, but by then I bet they’ll have raised even hundreds of thousands of new accounts worldwide. Not a chance in hell it’s a random glitch starting on a Monday morning, ha.

Twitter likely doing a subscription drive, trying to capture the likely millions that read but don’t have accounts. Seems like a data drive to get your email and other info in account creation.

75F off a min of 45F… 3rd Top 10’er in a row.

There’s a ton of small transactions too though, hand and toe warmers take are the largest selling items and they are less than that coffee and donut. Most people buy the big pricey stuff like lift tickets or lessons online ahead of time. It’s the smaller items like F&B, coffees, hand warmers, a face mask, a beer, fridge magnet or post card, that make up a lot of transactions. Obviously still not cheap (marked up) but most single transactions a $20 can cover. People just don’t carry it. Its also a large enterprise so you aren’t worried about the transaction cost to the bank for the business like you would a local coffee joint. I can see the mentality of just “put it all on the card this trip and we’ll deal with it later.”

The farmers markets too… so many tourists don’t think about it ahead of time but the weekly large market on Sunday is obviously all cash. The nearby ATM does quite a good transaction fee amount I’m sure on Sunday’s with a line 10 deep to take out cash .

Ha I hear that. Still reasons to have cash around and Uncle Sam having no records. Tips, under the table work, contractors will give a discount for smaller jobs if you pay them in cash so there's no record of it, etc. There's a big green industry in Vermont that keeps cash flowing around too.

We get a lot of people up here who don't even have cards on them, much less cash. Apple pay or Google pay. Cash definitely seems like it's on it's way out to be honest. Extremely small number of cash transactions these days, to the point that it's not even worth having a cash office at the ski area anymore.

Yeah I notice it more in the evenings now… can’t start a hike at like 7pm anymore with twilight well past 9.

Foggy 46F out there letting the dog out. Local PWS all in that 45-46F range. SLK 37F HIE 40F BML 44F