PhineasC

I didn’t mean to come off as frustrated. I was posting more in affirmation and amazement. His spot takes full advantage of the particular setups that work well. It was breezy, cold, and snowy here today. Plenty of wintry appeal, and I am glad parts of our region got a few inches out of it.

He’s in a real snow hole, the kind where Mother Nature dumps it all.

Yup! Let’s keep it going!

JSpin appears to live in a magical elven snow kingdom disconnected from our boring human reality.

Not as special here in northern NH at 1500’ today. LOL Been a wintry appeal day for sure but nothing serious in terms of accumulations. You guys stole the snow this time.

I am hoping we are all getting so much snow it's neck-and-neck amongst our various spots.

I can access via the web but not via the app. It's an issue with logging in to the account. If you access the shared link as a public user, it should work. LOL at the lights. That's sitcom stuff right there.

So far early-on is seems pretty similar between our spots. Alex did a little better in the October event that favored western locations with the changeover (the event where Whitefield of all places crushed the competition). That event was kind of fluky. Otherwise, it's been pretty similar, just normal variance here and there. I am looking forward to a real synoptic coastal storm without this changeover BS so we can really put this to the test.

And sanitizer. I see so many people with filthy masks touching them and then their faces and surfaces. Totally defeats the purpose. That's why I have been saying the messaging is all messed up now.

Our glorious politicians aren't even following the rules themselves. They continue to have parties, host galas, and travel around. I'm sure many, many turkeys will be carved in the governor's mansions next week. It'll be OK because they will have less than 25 people in each dining room of the mansion. See, they follow the rules too.

I went on a walk last week at Pinkham Notch and it was interesting to see how people handled the whole mask thing. I always give way on a trail by moving well off to the side when anyone approaches. It was about 50/50 with people who would put on their masks when they approached versus not. Mind you, there was about 15-20 feet of distance at all times, this was a wide path. Definitely the younger, "earthy" crowd (you guys know the type up here) was quick to mask up whereas the older folks (some elderly) often did not. I have seen this pattern a lot. It's here in MD. The older Karens there are masked 24/7 whereas the young people are more likely to flout the rules. Kinda interesting to me. One thing I do see in a lot of people is fear and paranoia. You can see it in people's eyes as they stare at you from behind their mask. It will take a very long time for society to heal. I'm sure I am not the only one who has noticed how damn twitchy everyone is these days...

Same dusting here this morning.

32 degrees with light snow. I have a coating on some surfaces.

We need to get back to the original concept of flatten the curve. The focus should be on making sure the hospitals don't become overwhelmed. That is how Fauci and gang sold everyone on the lockdowns in the first place. I'm serious that at some point the narrative for a lot of Americans morphed into "we can take certain actions such as mask wearing and social distancing to just avoid COVID entirely," which is silly and never what any legit expert said. I'm not sure how this all got twisted, perhaps it was inevitable given what is happening on the political side of things. Either way, you now have people that have been following the supposed silver bullet formula for dodging COVID who are still getting it anyway, and that will cause a lot more people to come to the conclusion that the rules are all pretty useless and throw the baby out with the bathwater. The messaging on COVID is totally messed up now. People are obsessed with cases and have totally lost the forest for the trees at this point. We need a total reset and restart on COVID messaging across the board, IMO.

It pretty much makes sense that all of those states who mostly dodged the spring spikes are getting hit now. In the spring, the experts told us we couldn't really avoid infections and deaths in the long run, rather the idea was to spread them out over a longer period of time so as to avoid unnecessary deaths from hospital overcrowding. At some point, people morphed this guidance into an idea that we could somehow avoid COVID altogether and not have cases/deaths. Kinda weird how that happened. Anyway, VT, NH, and other such states that seemed to have dodged the bullet in May will be hit now, luckily we are much better now at protecting the vulnerable and treating COVID. That all said, I am glad I live on the side of a mountain and not next to the Berlin jail.

35 with flurries.

I skied in -15 in Canada one time. -25 windchills once as well in western MD. But it was always just a single day and I was able to duck into the lodge as needed. I hope to freeze my nuts off this winter.

LOL I know. Hopefully some of these upcoming marginal events break right for us.

Yeah, mid to upper 30s and rain showers is not really what I was hoping for in Randolph. Basically just a colder version of what I get in MD... Hope it changes soon.

Other than the midweek cold shot, not much exciting weather going on. I hope next weekend and beyond trends to cold with snow chances. Kind of a disappointing month so far. Wet and mild. December will be here before we know it.

They are headed down the drain. I haven't been interested in them for about a month now. The league has figured out Lamar and he is mediocre at best at this point. The Pats are lousy this year and going nowhere, and yet the Ravens looked utterly overmatched against them, especially in the second half. A very bad sign.

And we decided to let Damien Harris run all over us. A pathetic performance, especially considering that the weather favored our vaunted "ground game." No more excuses, this team is headed nowhere.

Worst back pain I ever had was a few months ago. I was doing squats with the bar up on my shoulders, it slipped down onto my upper spine and I heard a cracking sound. I immediately knew I messed up. A slipped disc in the upper back is pretty rare, apparently, but that is one way to get one. Hurt like hell for about a week and then dull pain for a few more weeks. Not as bad as the lower back injuries since the upper spine doesn't twist as much in daily activities.

Just think of all the firewood you'd have though.

10 points... yeah "fine." How much longer are we going to pretend last season wasn't a fluke for Lamar?