mattie g

Yup. Wife was on Paxlovid for five days after our recent first bout with COVID, and she had literally no symptoms by the end of her second day of treatment. She then tested negative twice, 48 hours apart, after finishing her course of treatment. Two days later...BAM! She was laid out with a nasty rebound case that she's just now getting over after about a week. COVID is weird.

I'm sorry to hear about your impending death.

That sucks. Wife and I got it a couple weeks ago for the first time. It really wasn't that bad for me (headaches for a about four days, body aches for 36 hours, cold symptoms for another 3-4 days...and loss of taste/smell for about 7-10 days), but my wife got hit a lot harder and is just about done recovering after Paxlovid rebound. It hits everyone differently, so just take it as it comes. I guess the only suggestion is to keep well rested!

We've got something to track within 120 hours. That, in and of itself, is cause for celebration! lol

It is more progressive, but the ridge out west is definitely more pumped up.

It's going to be impressive if your decision to do PBP for this ends up with a disorganized POS drizzling on us.

I edited in the smiley a few minutes after the fact because I realized it didn't come off how I had intended.

Being a CEO in that box is like being a Russian oligarch near a window.

Shut up. Let us enjoy it, FFS.

Co-worker of mine has a dudes' weekend for the Super Bowl every year. They're going to Davis this year, so I told them to drop into Stumptown. Now...if only I could find a way to get there sometime.

I do exactly the same thing. My setup isn't fancy, by any stretch, but it's been effective! I'm shooting to get my seeds started this coming weekend, with an eye to getting my peppers and tomatoes in the ground by the first weekend in May. If it looks like we're headed for a cold snap around then, I'll push that date to the right, as apporpriate.

My co-Team Rep and I have started really discussing the upcoming NVSL summer swim season. It seems so far away, yet it's only next month we find out which division we'll be in. Pool registration starts around the same time, so we have to be ready with our own registration at that point. Once the middle of March hits and we start getting registrations, things ramp up pretty damn quickly!

I've got a couple heat mats plugged into the same timer as my grow lights. Soil gets to 77F or so for the 16 hours the mat is on, so they get plenty of warmth to germinate. The seed trays have tops, so they lose neither moisture nor heat. Overall, I've had really good success with germination with a pretty simple setup!

Probably rain, but at least we can tune in with half-hearted interest to see what happens for each run.

It's not that far off though.

When you've got a 1015 L pushing into western Kentucky, there's no way a 1041 H in southern Quebec can withstand it.

GFS and the Canadian look much more alike at that time.

No one has ever accused crocuses of being smart.

I realize that UHI affects a relatively small portion of the earth, which is my point. What are the locations whose data is fed into this model? Are these temperatures being taken at on-the-ground sites across the word? Are they just official record stations, such as airports, etc. like we have in the US? Are current temperatures being collected with satellites? Are they being collected at the thermal vents to underwater volcanoes? Again...I'm not doubting that warming is occurring, but there is some room to question whether temperature readings are biased warm (i.e., warmer than temps already are) in the modern day.

Sorry...I think that came out wrong. What I meant was that I can't figure out what the starting point for the temp change is. Is it temp change year on year? Temps change based on average during the timeframe shown? We see a big spike from about 1900, which is alarming, but without that context I get a little lost. I'm not denying warming in any way, but I will admit that I question if the process of calculating temps imparts a warm bias into the data (particularly the effects of station siting and UHI).

My problem with it is that there's no explanation of how it's measuring temp change. I honestly can't figure out what it's supposed to be telling me...and I my project consists primarily of folks who do data analytics and advanced reporting.

Out of curiosity, are these temperature measurements affected by UHI? I'm not arguing against GW, but I feel like the extent of temperature increase can be argued against because so many sites are affected by UHI nowadays. That's also an odd graph because it's labeled "Global Average Temperature Change." But what is the base temperature that it's measuring from? Were is the starting point for 0.0C?

2/1: 0.5" Season Total: 0.5"

You should probably move.

I'm sure the power grid will continue working flawlessly, as it always does in Texas.