showmethesnow Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 22 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said: Even during the dead periods of winter, spring, and fall it's not this boring. When is football coming back? Where are the Hurricanes you promised us? p.s. I see you finally figured out how to do Gifs and videos. Good on you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 18 hours ago, H2O said: Posting just to post in case anyone was wondering I died Posting just to post because I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Saw this posted in the SNE thread... you should watch it -- lightning strike to a tree and parts of the tree are thrown outward 10 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: @eekuasepinniW https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1017241256609624064 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Don’t know if I ever bothered to update you guys on the college search: Decided to go to UVA. They get a little more snow then Arlington annually, so hoping I score something you guys don’t. Or I can just let you know if those echoes from the SW inbound to DC are legit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 2 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said: Don’t know if I ever bothered to update you guys on the college search: Decided to go to UVA. They get a little more snow then Arlington annually, so hoping I score something you guys don’t. Or I can just let you know if those echoes from the SW inbound to DC are legit. Congratulations to you NA101. Hoping for good times for you in college. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 7 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said: Don’t know if I ever bothered to update you guys on the college search: Decided to go to UVA. They get a little more snow then Arlington annually, so hoping I score something you guys don’t. Or I can just let you know if those echoes from the SW inbound to DC are legit. Congratulations. Not a bad place to start your life away from home. Is this for Fall 2019? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 UVa is nice. Good school, nice college town and not stuck in the hustle and bustle of suburbia/city life 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Congratulations. Not a bad place to start your life away from home. Is this for Fall 2019?Fall 2018, I graduated this spring. Congratulations! 1. College is amazing. Meet good people and do good things. Do that and college will be some of the best years of your life. 2. Take advantage of the resources the school offers. Don’t assume you know everything just by attending orientation. The more resources you find, the more opportunities you’ll have in the future. 3. Keep perspective. Try not to get too high or too low on all your new experiences. Friends, flings, and classes will seem like the biggest thing in the world then but will barely even register in your memory just a few years later. It’s a time to learn, be happy, and sometimes, get hurt. There’s a long life ahead and what matters most is how you learn from mistakes and adversity. 4. It’s almost impossible at that age but please do think seriously about what you spend. Loans are a double edged sword. Making small sacrifices pay to save/reduce borrowing now will pay big dividends in the future. I’m so happy for you! You’ve earned it and I have no doubt you’ll be a great addition to that community. Thank you for the detailed reply. Happy to say I’ve already made a few connections on campus with professors and administrators which has already helped make my life easier. On the spending front, hopefully I can keep my high school habits. I’ve been blessed by the fact my parents have the means to help me with college, and will manage to go to UVA with my own decent chunk of earnings that I’ve saved up the past few years. The only thing I need to do is to convince myself to invest some of it, lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Don't do things in college that you'll regret doing later. If a picture of it got put on social media, could it get you in trouble? If so, don't do it. Yet don't *not* do things in college that you'll regret not doing later. If you have any chance to travel or study abroad in college, do it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWilliam9830 Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Keyboard meteorologists are already posting "preliminary" weenie outlook maps for this upcoming winter 2018-19. LOL at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Sad to see the World Cup come to and end today, but’s it’s been a hell of a tournament. With the US missing out, it’s been all stress-free watching, which has been a nice change, if I’m honest! Good thing is that the Premier League starts up in less than a month! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I was in Spain for the semifinals. Was in a British tourist town in Mallorca. Pretty neat atmosphere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 I am predicting an average winter with average rain and snow, average temperatures, and average winds, cloudiness, humidity, fog days ... ... this way, I cannot be wrong side of average. (will make a real forecast in October) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usedtobe Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 I haven't been around lately but still love you guys. Wildfire Today has a cool video of a fire tornado transitioning to a waterspout. Jebman, sorry about your dad. http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/07/16/fire-whirl-or-waterspout-or-fire-tornado/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 14 minutes ago, usedtobe said: I haven't been around lately but still love you guys. Wildfire Today has a cool video of a fire tornado transitioning to a waterspout. Jebman, sorry about your dad. http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/07/16/fire-whirl-or-waterspout-or-fire-tornado/ Hope you have been doing well Wes. Look forward to seeing more of you as we get into Sept/Oct and you predict a great winter for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Just cut the cord by cancelling DirecTV, which we’ve had for the last five years. Before that we had Fios for about four years, and I had Verizon/Fios for years prior to that. Feels quite liberating...but we are losing years of DVRed shows that my daughter started watching four years ago, though so many of those shows are now available via streaming. We’re going with a combination of Prime Video, Netflix, and Sling through FireTV. Really interested to see how it all works out...and definitey excited to be saving $90/month! Anyone else cut the cord and happy with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 20 hours ago, mattie g said: Just cut the cord by cancelling DirecTV, which we’ve had for the last five years. Before that we had Fios for about four years, and I had Verizon/Fios for years prior to that. Feels quite liberating...but we are losing years of DVRed shows that my daughter started watching four years ago, though so many of those shows are now available via streaming. We’re going with a combination of Prime Video, Netflix, and Sling through FireTV. Really interested to see how it all works out...and definitey excited to be saving $90/month! Anyone else cut the cord and happy with it? Stupid DirecTV has me by the, uh, let's go with neck, with the Sunday Ticket. I know I can find illegal streams online of my Vikes, but I don't always trust them and it is so nice just to sit in front of my tv and watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 1 hour ago, MN Transplant said: Stupid DirecTV has me by the, uh, let's go with neck, with the Sunday Ticket. I know I can find illegal streams online of my Vikes, but I don't always trust them and it is so nice just to sit in front of my tv and watch. Same position with the Bengals. Would rather pay and watch at home than go to sports bars each week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodhokie Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 6:43 PM, mattie g said: Just cut the cord by cancelling DirecTV, which we’ve had for the last five years. Before that we had Fios for about four years, and I had Verizon/Fios for years prior to that. Feels quite liberating...but we are losing years of DVRed shows that my daughter started watching four years ago, though so many of those shows are now available via streaming. We’re going with a combination of Prime Video, Netflix, and Sling through FireTV. Really interested to see how it all works out...and definitey excited to be saving $90/month! Anyone else cut the cord and happy with it? No regrets for ever getting attached once I left college. My wife and I run a combo of Hulu/Netflix/Prime (We use Amazon Prime and Twitch Prime regularly so the video just comes with) and it serves our needs. Come hockey season and football season I usually go to reddit and go to the associated streams subreddits when I can't go to a game. Usually a grandma streams if the game is popular enough or if the person is tagged verified and upvoted well then it's usually a safe bet and the streaming is usually better than any streaming services that ISP's give. ESPN3 is usually a gong show during CFB season while pirates have no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Luckily, I’m not a huge football fan. I’ve gone without watching the Eagles regularly for years now, so I’m not really missing anything. My big thing is soccer, and I can get NBCSN and NBC Premier League Gold through Sling/Fire TV, so I’m good there. I’ve been researching the possibility of purchasing a VPN service, but aside from the general internet security part of it, I’m not sure how much real benefit we’d get from it. I’m not techy, but can muddle my way through, so I could probably make it work for me, but if it makes my wife’s life any more difficult than it needs to be, then forget it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormpc Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I just bite the bullet and pay my $300 a month for FIOS and get everything. I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime as well. I'm too lazy when it comes to utilities to try to find an alternate opportunity to save some money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 6 hours ago, Stormpc said: I just bite the bullet and pay my $300 a month for FIOS and get everything. I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime as well. I'm too lazy when it comes to utilities to try to find an alternate opportunity to save some money. $300 a month? Yep, that is definitely biting the bullet. My wife and I don't watch too much tv so we are good with $90 a month for xfinity, which includes our internet as well. Also go with Netflix for $11.00 a month though we are considering dropping them for Amazon Prime which looks to have a better movie selection plus the free shipping on orders. $100 is still too much for my tastes but I am a cheap SOB as my wife always likes to remind me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 7 hours ago, Stormpc said: I just bite the bullet and pay my $300 a month for FIOS and get everything. I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime as well. I'm too lazy when it comes to utilities to try to find an alternate opportunity to save some money. I pay $60/month for Fios internet, and was paying $150/month for DirecTV, plus yearly Prime and monthly Netflix. Now with Sling I’m only paying $60/month instead of the $150. That’s a pretty significant savings for very little in the way of changing our setup. We don’t watch all that much TV anyways, and we can stream pretty much anything our older daughter could want to watch. I just signed up for Premier League Gold last night, so I’ll have access to every game - both live and on demand - for $49.99/year. Not a bad deal when I’m already saving a ton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 4 hours ago, showmethesnow said: $300 a month? Yep, that is definitely biting the bullet. My wife and I don't watch too much tv so we are good with $90 a month for xfinity, which includes our internet as well. Also go with Netflix for $11.00 a month though we are considering dropping them for Amazon Prime which looks to have a better movie selection plus the free shipping on orders. $100 is still too much for my tastes but I am a cheap SOB as my wife always likes to remind me. Geez, that is a good price. I have Xfinity for cable tv and internet too but I am paying $192 monthly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I wish I only paid $60 a month for FIOS. You must be a new customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWilliam9830 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Twitter down for anybody? Doesn't seem to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthArlington101 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Twitter down for anybody? Doesn't seem to work Literally just tried to load a Moment, couldn’t get it to work. Turned my WiFi on and off lol. So yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWilliam9830 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 16 minutes ago, NorthArlington101 said: Literally just tried to load a Moment, couldn’t get it to work. Turned my WiFi on and off lol. So yes. It did sh*t the bed but it appears to be back up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 3 hours ago, smokeybandit said: I wish I only paid $60 a month for FIOS. You must be a new customer. We dumped Cable TV years ago and haven't looked back. What I am looking for however, is a company that could install a decent TV antenna on our house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWilliam9830 Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 This is just speculation, but we will be totally crushed by the winter of 2018-19. All my hopes are up for a big winter and a west based weak to moderate El Nino. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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