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I think he is a recluse like @fujiwara79. Definitely a class of introverts with anxiety disorders who have enjoyed the past year a lot. They are really concerned about a return to normal.

Reminds me of John Daly.

The gang growing a few tomatoes in their backyard should keep hoses at the ready.

May as well stay dry in NH. Been wet down here though. The SNE suburban farmers need to watch out.

I think I will look back on this winter in the future and be able to find a special something in it. The fact that my 30" pack stayed basically perfect for two months straight may end up having been a special thing in its own right. I can definitely see how winter could be more active but also feature plenty of 35 degree rain that eats the pack and puts a crust on it. This winter also had very uniform temps for long stretches. I swear I went at least 30 days straight with the temp staying between 15-25 day and night. The huge cold never materialized, but the second half of winter had basically perfect skiing weather. You are probably the only person here who was out on the mountain as often as I was, and I can definitely say I had very few bad days mid-Jan on. I skied 4-5 days a week all winter.

It was the most amazing winter of my life, bar none. The snow retention in Randolph was incredible. I am already pining for next winter. We miss skiing too.

The craft beer shop in Gorham has only local stuff, nothing from outside NNE. The dude in there is awesome though. He never seems to leave the place and is always entertaining.

Three vaccine cocktail IPA blend?

The vast majority of people I know who got COVID barely even had symptoms. But I realize others had different experiences.

You would have been better off just getting COVID, honestly.

If this is your first stone, see if anything in your diet changed over the last couple years? Taking vitamin D supplements? How many IUs each day? I have done some research on this and am convinced high doses of vitamin D supplements cause kidney stones. There have been studies on this, but they were kind of inconclusive. Just curious.

Oh man. I have been there several times. 3 mm is passable for sure. Alpha blockers sometimes can get them out. I have a 10mm stone still in my right kidney. It's shaped like a dumbbell and will never pass on its own so when it breaks loose I will need medical intervention to break it up. I had the sonic blast treatment last time to break up the stone on the left side. Relatively simple non-invasive procedure. So don't fear if it doesn't pass. Hopefully you pass it with minimal issues. Kidney stones suck.

@CAPE Down here in DE tonight and the 120 Minute is doing the trick. Wish it was just a a tad warmer and it would be a really nice evening outside.

It's their really strong IPA. Variable ABV, usually 17-19%. It's amazing, and you can age it for years too and it gets nice and mellow. I only ever find it down here in DE where the brewery is located.

Drinking a 120 Minute IPA from Dogfish Head tonight here in DE. I assume you guys don't have those up there?

I don't see why you would flaunt your ignorance like this, but you do you, I guess. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-04-14/no-rise-in-global-suicide-rate-in-first-months-of-pandemic

Because it takes time for people to get to the point where they want to kill themselves. You will see other indicators such as job losses, divorce, alcoholism, and homelessness increase first, which is already happening. And we do have experience with this, for example during the 2008 financial crisis.

All snow in SE Mass is stat padder snow.

He is a recluse I think. Suicides are a lagging indicator.

Seems like the kind of guy who flips immediately from whining about drought to whining about flooded gardens and rotting roots.

6.8” storm total for my neighbor. Above average month so far.

I always get a fall cold and a spring cold, and neither materialized, so there is definitely some factor at play. I think not being at my office mingling with employees or at work-related social functions all the time definitely played a role. It's probably a very complex mix of factors that will vary person-to-person, but there seems to be no doubt there has been a change in what sicknesses people are getting. I do wonder how many people had a cold or flu and went to get a COVID test because they assumed it was COVID, and therefore just the positive COVID result was recorded. Probably a decent number of people. Normally, people don't get flu or cold tests (not sure a test for the various viruses that cause the latter even exists?). The CDC numbers are always estimates for those illnesses. The CDC admitted they halted monitoring for the flu in 2020 entirely anyway. I definitely think there is more to come on the flu and cold story.

If everyone agreed with me I wouldn’t even bother posting here. You don’t seem to be a very good student of human nature.

They were way, way off in the cost per pound to orbit and how often they’d be able to launch. Off by several orders of magnitude. I think they could have launched the entire ISS with a handful of Saturn V launches instead of using the Shuttle and dozens of flights.