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thanks, yea this contract is nuts. we have 3 teams, but probably around the same number of people total (around 30-35 if i had to guess). one of the SM's left and so they added me as SM until they figure things out. problem is we now only have 1 ba on a team that could easily have 2-3 ba's and also have to balance the new PI planning in 2 weeks. we're short-staffed with devs as well. I actually don't mind the SM role so far, though. the scrum ceremonies I can get used to, but not a fan of the fact that I also have to run multiple help desk calls along with other non-agile related tasks.

i'd like to report that i still have my final four picks and 6/8 elite eight's. the rest has been a shitshow, but holding onto my late picks...for now.

it's been kind of annoyingly breezy during the nicer days we've had. i'm still trying to figure out if it's a frederick, east side of the catoctin's thing, or it's just been that way (some of those la nina years like 2013-15 had that consistent breeze situation going on). in other news, i've had to step in as a scrum master (which I think you said you do) and ran my first sprint planning yesterday. that was tricky given that i had about a week and a half to transition/learn what i'm doing to run it properly. Also, i can honestly say i don't need snow at this point. if it happens, cool, but those 60 degree days were pretty amazing.

Pretty aggressive downpour moved through here. No lightning, though. Still 1 or 2 more rounds to go it looks like. On the plus side, free car wash.

Strong start to “met” spring with mild weather today and madness beginning. Baseball incoming as well. Not too happy about my Oakland As trading away again but looks like they’ve got some prospects in return.

I’m all in.

i'm craving a thunderstorm.

I took intro to astrophysics which was one of the hardest classes I’ve ever taken. Straight up weed out class lol. I ended up dropping it because I’m pretty sure I should have taken the physics sequence first (which was another grinder of courses). That stuff is interesting, though. My first job was on a cassini contract at Goddard. A lot of that team had phd’s…just a little bit above my pay grade lol. If anyone here hasn’t viewed Saturn through a telescope, I advise it. It literally looks fake, but the fact that it’s not makes it awesome.

I didn’t take abstract algebra, but always thought it could be cool. I did take number theory in undergrad which had its wtf am I doing moments. And yea, once you get into the upper level classes it was a lot of proofs esp advanced calc. The Real analysis class I took helped prep for that.

I was kind of the opposite. Got my bs in math from umd which didn’t offer an undergrad in met. I actually had thought about transferring (including Lyndon state), but figured I could always consider grad down the line (and ended up in IT lol). As much I consider met as a career, I think it’s probably best as a hobby for me.

Nino or nina, we’re due for a blizzard.

I would like not to repeat the several weeks of mostly overcast or light rain in May several years ago. I don’t remember the year, but I don’t want it. I don’t need the 80s yet, but I’m good closing the winter tracking until next year’s El Niño. Another sneaky plus of warmer weather is lighter loads in the washer/dryer.

i did notice some of the increase in snow totals that others have mentioned yesterday. my place probably had 3" realistically (maybe more with a snowboard), but just up the road in gambrill was in the 4-5" range. pretty good finish to the winter.

thx, i never used that. i saw that some people take screenshots of their photos and then crop. i tested it out and it didn't reduce the size that much. seems like tapatalk would be a better route.

another thing that's interesting about the dc data is that the standard deviation is 11" lol. i'm math/stats rusty on the terms and confidence intervals, etc. (so feel free to correct me if i'm wrong), but in general you can expect about a 68% chance that the totals for a season will lie between 6" and 28", give or take. that's a lot of variability from season to season.

how do people upload photos here? i've only tried from my iphone and the size limit gets me every time. i know imgur was mentioned, but i'm curious if people are just using a compression app? for vids, i'm assuming youtube is probably ideal.

i feel comfortable calling this is a B- winter. little bit above average, saved by January and held in place by yesterday's snowfall. deductions made to unused cold in november and early fall December weather (which I actually was ok with lol). january was strong for most of the forum. february was a bust. any snow in march is a bonus. all in all, a very average winter by snow totals, which is actually not all that common when you look at the variance from winter to winter.

pretty good last hurrah band moving through right now.

snow is starting to blow around now. pretty good winter send off. time to kick back and watch some college hoops. i'd post some pics, but they're always too large. might share some later once i figure out the best route.

breeze is definitely picking up here.

just noticed that. round two i guess lol. must be some enhancement from the ull energy.

got a nice walk around dt frederick. roads were primarily wet (sun angle season really is no joke), but looks like over 2" in some of the better accumulating spots.

Prob about 2” on my jeep hood. Little more than I expected so far.

i believed in the snow, but definitely had doubts about the wind. wind driven snow (while it's snowing) is not our strength. maybe that changes once the upper level energy approaches.

i think it's part of the price we pay in these setups if we want an earlier changeover. drier air along with the colder temps. i haven't lived in frederick long enough, but it seems like the catoctins are a dividing line for a microclimate. i think the windward side (downtown frederick) would benefit more so in this type of setup than maybe out towards middletown/hagerstown. the opposite seems to occur with a line of storms dropping in from the nw.