Jackstraw

A little over 6.5 here as since 10am yesterday. Thats a sprinkle where I used to live lol. Looks like the boundary is slowly settling to the ESE. Good thing. We are on the brink of some 50 year flooding in this area. Cant take anymore rain. A lot of fields around here are getting their soybeans drowned. I've got lakes everywhere on my property, but no fish

We have been getting pummeled with rain today. 3.5 inches in the gauge and and its still shaking out sheets of rain. Training off of the N Indy to the dreaded Carmel area urban heat island off to the NNE all day. Line came through earlier and it dissipated except the train from N Indy to right over me. It just won't stop. Like the Pacers

Man I hate putting dogs down. Gotta 12 year old Newfie and her old hips are finally giving out. Actually she's a Landsear, she looks like a dairy cow (and is damn near as big as one lol). She's getting to the point it takes her 6 or 7 tries to get her ass up. Would never tell if she's in pain. I've heard that dog whimper or whine like 0 times in her life, even as a pup. I've accidentally stepped on her fat foot a few times and she just stares at me like "dumbass". Hit her with a tractor when she chased a rabbit in front of me. Knocked her over, thought I killed her. She just got up, shook it off, not a sound, and looked at me with the "dumbass" look. Her names Red appropriately. Was hoping she'd get to see snow one more time but she's not gonna make it through another summer of heat. Just sucks.

I love Ireland lol.

One BIG very important thing is to make sure that its not the battery keeping it from closing. Older Lithium Ion laptop battery's can swell up and possibly catch fire, especially if they are plugged into AC power for long periods at a time. Pull it out look and feel up and down it, you'll be able to tell. If its swollen get it out of there. You can get refurbished ones for most laptops on Ebay for 20 bucks or less. I've got one like that (am actually typing this on it, kinda). If it's like mine (and not the battery) it's probably got a couple three broken tabs that hold the clam shell together. No easy fix (that I know of) unless you feel comfortable removing the guts and putting them in an identical (if you can find one) clam shell off of Ebay. It's a common "break" on older laptops and isn't a big deal unless you are still very mobile with it. Or you could do what I've done with mine. Mine is the original version of the Intel Core I5 (late '08) and it does the same thing as yours, on 2 sides lol. Hell, half the keys on the keyboard are gone and the screens broken lol. I just put a piece of duct tape (with a small slit to enhance cooling on the old bird) on it to secure it where it pops open. . Mine is plugged via HDMI into my TV with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse on the coffee table. It was my work PC for 10 years. It's been through hell and back including sliding off the top of my car while getting on I95 just N of Savanah GA because I forgot to put it into my bag lol. Scratched up but still fired right up. Still works like a champ to this day even though it's in nearly 16 years old. Takes most anything I throw at it, in it or on it lol (except gaming stuff of course). I'll use it until it smokes. One of the best 2k bucks I ever spent. Old Acer's where rock solid laptops.

So I was in a Big Box store today buying dumb stuff I don't need. There was a younger couple in there buying GMO veggie plants for their garden. I'm sure they try and show off to their neighbors, who both probably live in 700k dollar 3 designs, 6 colors available cracker box's in a 200 unit HOA'd subdivision with 3ft trees close enough together the husbands can toss toilet paper back and forth from the bathroom windows and probably plant the exact same genetic hybrid squash, complaining about the weather. I'm also sure (yes I'm sure again) they were driving one of the 50 80k dollar SUV's that crowded the lot (I recently complained about "storm related driving" in the area I just happened to be shopping in, its why I'm sure ). I heard them tell the cashier they lost some plants this year. They always plant 3 weeks before Memorial Day. (WT holy F!! this is Indiana people!!) I had to chuckle to myself. I mean do they not get that Memorial Day is about 2 days earlier every year until it isn't? People like that are why there's GMO tomato plants for sale in July around here lmao.

Awesome. Means another $50 dollar electric bill instead of $150.

I know I'll take it lol. As a matter of fact I'll take a cool summer even though we're probably gonna have to pay for this weather at some point. I fear the sauna is nigh

I said me who lives here not you. Personally I'll take 2 days of potential rain along with 60'-70-/40's-50's for 7-10 days over a damn sauna. And they are backing off of the Wed rain as they always do this far out with E/SE oriented precip . Precip from that direction is usually very light for this area. I should know, I live here

I'd like to place an order for this upcoming week to finish out the month please

Hell ride omw home from the track. Got stuck on 31 around Carmel with idiots flipping out because sirens were going off. Saw one moron stop in the middle of an 8 lane 65 mph interstate. Those drivers were safer going 240mph than I was. Somebody needs to pass Xanax out to these people for Christs sake. Get off the freaking Interstate, there's exits every half mile for 10 miles in that area. Stressful. Weather was cool though.

Off to the track. We got sprinkles over night. Should be quite warm and windy which could make things interesting. We could get a quick hit tonight with the frontal passage. Par for the course with strong kinematic driven systems around here as they usually split N/S. Hard to get a really nice EML push like that one this far East. The forecast for the next week anyway is looking stellar. Keep those muggles at bay as long as we can

Yeah could be a long night with the dogs lol. We'll see how long that line can sustain itself. Some pretty spooky soundings on the HiRes NAM for the N half of IN and lower MI through midnight. I'm gonna bank on my Climo that they die out was they pass LAF for my area.

Looking like a N/S splitter here which is fine with me. Took a break from the track today, back at it tomorrow thru Sunday

Uber drivers in Indy be prayin' for cool rain Memorial Day weekend. Have the The Fever at home, then the 500 AND Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals (sorry to any of our OH brethren that had hope ) Sat and Sun respectively. Naptown be wakin up Memorial Day lol

06Z GFS throwing out wacked precip totals for the next 10 days with upwards of 7- 8 inches near the Chicago area, 3-4 around here. It needs to back off the shrooms

I'll be at the 500 that Sunday so fingers crossed. I've been to 25 of them. I've seen every type of weather there, 90's fry you like an egg, 40's and 50's freeze your ass off all weekend. Back in the70's and 80's when it was really fun, like no rules fun, you could camp outside the North 40 until 5am Saturday morning then they'd let us into the North 40 to drink all day and night then go into the infield at 5am Sunday and never remember who won. You didnt have to leave until Monday. Think it was 83 when they let us into the infield for the race at 5am Sunday it proceeded to absolutely pour rain off and on for 2 days. They didnt finish the race until Tuesday. They couldn't kick us out. It was absolutely insane. Saw some Canadians fishing from the top of their motorhome with a dildo on the end of a fishing pole by the ladies restroom. Hey 50k bored drunks shits gonna happen lol. (sorry that 5 day weekend was a memory of a lifetime lol). It even snowed (didn't stick) the night before one year. The shit we used to get away with. I ramble.........

37 here this morning. Last sub 40 day until October? lol

Yeah, I saw an 87 out in weenie land on my P&C. Not ready, never ready until after Memorial day, then bring it because its only gonna last 4 months at most by then

42 this morning here. Been stuck under the core of that cutoff all day and haven't broke out of the 40's with rain up until a couple of hours ago. The wind was blowing pretty good this morning had a wind chill of 35 lol. I woke up with very chilly bones. Had to go pull the propane tank off the grill and hook it up to my Mr. Buddy for a few hours. Need a break from those Winter heating bills Edit: And its raining again and 47. I'm going back to sleep lol.

This Spring has felt like the first "normal" Spring in a long time. Yes it's been a little wetter in some areas but at least its not gone from cold to broiler in a week. It seems like the past few years we almost skipped Spring and went straight into summer. This Spring reminds me of the Springs of my youth in Indiana so far. Now the "Springs" of my youth in Apple Valley CA, thats a different story lol.

Keep those 60 dewpoints south and I'm a happy camper. I know many like it hot but not me. I'll take 70's and 50's for as long as I can get them. Y'all will get your 80-90 degree days soon enough

Training sleepy rumblers this morning as the main action, if any, moves off to the ESE. I hope this boundary sets up south of I70 so I'm on the cool side and can stay out of a couple of days of rain trains. We've had so much rain the grass is trying out for the NBA

70/60 at 1am. I am not ready for the Muggles already.

Had to go to Cardiologist in downtown Indy today so I drove back and kinda followed the track of that quasi long tracker from 4/2. Followed it from Brownsburg all the way to about 20 miles ENE of Muncie because, well WTH, not like I'm in any shape to go mushroom hunting lol. Disclaimer... I probably (likely) missed a lot of stuff but I tried to follow the track and damage path from the NWS best I could. It was pretty amazing how that thing dodged (dropped) the really densely populated areas. I mean, from Brownsburg up through Zionsville and into Carmel/Noblesville areas, thats some pretty crowded grounds, some of the densest in the state, and it looks like it just snipped, or didn't drop, around the edges of them (it was pretty weak but still). When it moved NE of Carmel/Nobletucky all the way through the Muncie area it , it missed, once again just barely, all of the major populated areas as far as I could see. To be honest I saw some of the worst damage between Alexandria and Muncie, mainly N of the Moonsville area and the far NW side of Muncie. That would've been just on south side of the Bookend Vortex that was the main "generator" of the second half of tornado/tornado's but was right in line also with those confirmed reports of straight line winds of 80 to 100mph. NWS had it lift between just NW of Muncie over to OH ( and dropped another EF2 into the infamous Van Wert county tornado magnet lol and and another near Toledo) it may or may not have been on the ground in IN simply because there is nothing there but empty cornfields. So, yeah, it wasn't a "major" event by any means but I again think we dodged a major bullet that evening. I remember tracking that specific cell from MO all the way into OH as it dropped tornado's all along its path. For the areas it went through it's still amazing to me how it avoided, or didn't drop, into any of those huge box cutter subdivisions that surround Indy and Nobletucky that are just waiting to be matchsticked (I hate those things, imagine that lol). Like I posted previously we were an ingredient or 2 away from what could've been something along the lines of the '74 long tracker. Sorry, no pictures, I'm an airhead and wasn't thinking about it lol. Bookend Vortex first week of April? That was kinda nuts though Note: My neighbors husband who accidently turned the shower on while he and his wife were in the bathtub covered with couch cushions and scaring her to death that the roof had blown off when water started dripping on their heads is no longer sleeping in the barn lol.