Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm a night person and not a fan of the morning, but when I have to get up I'm money. Since you guys know you're gonna be up late Thurs-Sat..you may as well head to bed early Mon-Wed and get rested up so you can be fresh ad ready to go early Thursday morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Since you guys know you're gonna be up late Thurs-Sat..you may as well head to bed early Mon-Wed and get rested up so you can be fresh ad ready to go early Thursday morning Nah....I'll maybe head off an hour or so early on Wed night, but I'll be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Nah....I'll maybe head off an hour or so early on Wed night, but I'll be good. I'm gonna go for a long run Early Thursday morning. Probably start around 4:30. Training for the HFD marathon in Oct, so will also have to get at least 1 run in down in BWI at some point lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm seriously gonna leave that early because I'm grabbing Scooter, then shooting out the pike to Will's.....no way am I getting caught in rush hour traffic en route to Scooter's. Well I may make your life easier. I was thinking of you grabbing me at Riverside station in Newton...right off of 128. I think you might jump off the Bunker Hill bridge trying to drive down 93. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well I may make your life easier. I was thinking of you grabbing me at Riverside station in Newton...right off of 128. I think you might jump off the Bunker Hill bridge trying to drive down 93. Is the traffic that bad on that road that early? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm gonna go for a long run Early Thursday morning. Probably start around 4:30. Training for the HFD marathon in Oct, so will also have to get at least 1 run in down in BWI at some point lol Man, you're really into the whole marathon scene nowadays...nice. I just do the standard 3 sessions\wk and hit the weights hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well I may make your life easier. I was thinking of you grabbing me at Riverside station in Newton...right off of 128. I think you might jump off the Bunker Hill bridge trying to drive down 93. What time does the traffic get horrid....6ish.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm really getting psyched up now. I remember Ray and I texting like 3 months ago about it..and thinking how long 3 months would take to get here.. One week from today..weenies will slung on sides of car tanning on the way down to Baltimore..anticipation is at an all time high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm really getting psyched up now. I remember Ray and I texting like 3 months ago about it..and thinking how long 3 months would take to get here.. One week from today..weenies will slung on sides of car tanning on the way down to Baltimore..anticipation is at an all time high Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyahhhhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Scooter must be providing us w the license plates of every vehicle that will be comprising the conference gridlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Scooter must be providing us w the license plates of every vehicle that will be comprising the conference gridlock. LOL..he's trying to upload a current traffic report on 93 South into the thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Is the traffic that bad on that road that early? What time are you thinking? I thought Ray might come down around7:30 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 What time does the traffic get horrid....6ish.... Well more like 6:30 or so. What time were you thinking of coming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 What time are you thinking? I thought Ray might come down around7:30 or so. I was hoping y'all could get to my house by 8:00. It will all depend on Will. We don't want to hit traffic in NYC/Philly and we want to beat the pm rush in Balt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 4 of the top 5 posters(post count) on the board will be in that car LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Well I may make your life easier. I was thinking of you grabbing me at Riverside station in Newton...right off of 128. I think you might jump off the Bunker Hill bridge trying to drive down 93. reacharound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 reacharound? What a sick mind you have. You'll never see comments like that in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I'm really getting psyched up now. I remember Ray and I texting like 3 months ago about it..and thinking how long 3 months would take to get here.. One week from today..weenies will slung on sides of car tanning on the way down to Baltimore..anticipation is at an all time high It is an interesting study to sit back and watch all this vested interested, personally, that folks put into these things. The internet has done this over the last decade, actually closing in on 2 believe it or not. It's created these cultural islands; niches where previously more diffused interest groups are now provided a venue (the internet) to centroid their enthusiasm and involvement. It's a phenomenon really. Case in point: two weeks ago a buddy of mine asked me if I’d like to accompany him to his mutual friend’s cookout/ arcade party. Hmm, “arcade party”. What on Earth could that entail? It turns out that no different than Eastern and American Weather Forums, there is an entire internet-founded community of enthusiasts that are just as involved in their own rites, but in the arena of old school gaming (pre-home gaming). This guy was a zealot in every positive sense of it He had converted his finished basement into an arcade. He must have had 50 game cabinets down there: 3 or 4 types of Donkey Kong, all the Pack Man and Pack Woman’s, Pole Position, Zoo Keeper, pinball machines, Tempest, Frogger, Millipede, Centipede, Asteroids… the list goes on, and they were all money-disabled so that the user could just bop from game to game. Heck, there was a game called Paper Boy – I had never heard of Paper Boy. His electric bill must be obscene every month. There I was amid 75 strangers at his cookout/ arcade party. There were tattooed ridden bikers, clean cut social misfits, otherwise indistinguishable from mainstream fuddy-duddies, cool types, nerd types, dork types, and me. And they were all there for the same thing, to swap stories about growing up in that era, to tell tail of gaming convention events and competitions. Onward my buddy and I must have played 8 free hours of Zoo Keeper, as we grew obsessed with achieving the high score. In a way, the day was a kind of sweet revenge upon all those olden days of typically broke hand-in-pocket can-kickers looking for something to do, desperately checking coin slots for renegade Quarters. Eh, fun day, fading in memory. In addition to free games for hours, I was also given a free throat infection that raged into an all out summer respiratory infection, too. I actually ended up with a fever for 2 nights for it. In retrospect I do not recall seeing one container of Purell, not one can of Lysol anywhere. Boy, the immune systems of circa 1982 must have been something out of a sci-fi horror story. All those strange fingers pecking away at the various games, all different age groups and hygiene; maybe modern civility is lucky that gaming went into the home because who knows what zombie super-bug might have come of that era if it had gone on that way. But, as I stood there over a burger doing the people watching thing, listening to them chime on with their gaming-world-insider-speak, it dawned on me: This is no different than American Weather Forums providing a similar nexus for weather enthusiasts, or even those that could care less about the weather but really just use it to for a social outlet altogether – either way. It is the same thing, and it really is an interesting sociology if you step back and think about it. I suppose there is a practical application at hand. Many of us are Meteorologist not working as Meteorologist; for a few that may not matter, but for those that hope, perhaps an opportunity for networking. There’s also youngin’s looking for the best advice for education, or just having wanting ears to anecdotes and experiences to learn from. It is all good and certainly positive. And for a few perhaps even less interested in weather-related topic, a sense of familiarity and belonging to something they can uniquely identify with; maybe they’d feel awkward in a social scenario less focused. I unfortunately cannot find the time to venture to this conference. The last, in Providence RI, was quite convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Paper Boy was a good game. Standup arcade machines > home games (XBOX, PS123, etc). Emulators be damned There is also a big culture of amusement park folks, too! Frisbee Golf forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 LOL, those games brought back memories. What about Rampage? That was one of my favorites. I'm surprised you never heard of paperboy...that was another great game. I think forums are a great way to BS and just shoot the breeze about common interests such as weather, but also it helps develop friendships...perhaps for some that might have more of a difficult time in a more public setting. My only issue with technology and settings similar to this, is that I feel it also helps encourage social awkwardness. No longer do we walk into the office of our boss or approach someone if we have a question. Everything is done electronically. Hell people actually break up via texting or worse....get divorced via text. I feel like I sound elderly when I say this, but as much as it encourages social interactions...it may also cause social ineptness. I mean look at things like match.com. It's an excellent site to meet people, but the days of mustering up courage to talk to someone over a beer are going away. I remember being shy at first when it came to the opposite sex, but once you were able to do it a couple of times...it was like a load lifted off your shoulders. Confidence went up. It's a tough thing to do sometimes, but I feel it also helps us humans develop social skills and to help with communication which I feel is becoming more and more obsolete in a personal sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 LOL, those games brought back memories. What about Rampage? That was one of my favorites. I'm surprised you never heard of paperboy...that was another great game. I think forums are a great way to BS and just shoot the breeze about common interests such as weather, but also it helps develop friendships...perhaps for some that might have more of a difficult time in a more public setting. My only issue with technology and settings similar to this, is that I feel it also helps encourage social awkwardness. No longer do we walk into the office of our boss or approach someone if we have a question. Everything is done electronically. Hell people actually break up via texting or worse....get divorced via text. I feel like I sound elderly when I say this, but as much as it encourages social interactions...it may also cause social ineptness. I mean look at things like match.com. It's an excellent site to meet people, but the days of mustering up courage to talk to someone over a beer are going away. I remember being shy at first when it came to the opposite sex, but once you were able to do it a couple of times...it was like a load lifted off your shoulders. Confidence went up. It's a tough thing to do sometimes, but I feel it also helps us humans develop social skills and to help with communication which I feel is becoming more and more obsolete in a personal sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtracker Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 CT Blizz is one annoying mf'er with the North Trend and his seemingly endless optimism in the face of obvious defeat in the winter, but he has props from me as conference champion. He's probably the single greatest member in that regard. The joy and anticipation for me is somewhat deflated...not because of the conference itself..but the stress of putting it together and trying to herd cats to register, pay, etc. But after reading this thread, my excitement level is back up again. Good job Kev. Looking forward to seeing you all next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 CT Blizz is one annoying mf'er with the North Trend and his seemingly endless optimism in the face of obvious defeat in the winter, but he has props from me as conference champion. He's probably the single greatest member in that regard. The joy and anticipation for me is somewhat deflated...not because of the conference itself..but the stress of putting it together and trying to herd cats to register, pay, etc. But after reading this thread, my excitement level is back up again. Good job Kev. Looking forward to seeing you all next week. You too Randy and we all appreciate all your efforts mucho!, although the North trend is not your friend we are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 CT Blizz is one annoying mf'er with the North Trend and his seemingly endless optimism in the face of obvious defeat in the winter, but he has props from me as conference champion. He's probably the single greatest member in that regard. The joy and anticipation for me is somewhat deflated...not because of the conference itself..but the stress of putting it together and trying to herd cats to register, pay, etc. But after reading this thread, my excitement level is back up again. Good job Kev. Looking forward to seeing you all next week. We look forward to it so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 CT Blizz is one annoying mf'er with the North Trend and his seemingly endless optimism in the face of obvious defeat in the winter, but he has props from me as conference champion. He's probably the single greatest member in that regard. The joy and anticipation for me is somewhat deflated...not because of the conference itself..but the stress of putting it together and trying to herd cats to register, pay, etc. But after reading this thread, my excitement level is back up again. Good job Kev. Looking forward to seeing you all next week. Thanks dude. Thoiugh this year we're trending south for the conference in Balt. SNE doesn't typically trend south, but when we do, we do it in style. Can't wait to see your overweight, unmuscled frame in a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Kevn is expecting a personal display of your ripped-ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 Kevn is expecting a personal display of your ripped-ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 What time are you thinking? I thought Ray might come down around7:30 or so. I was thinking a slight change of plans might make this easier. If I stay at Megan's the night before, Ray could pick you up and then drive right to her place Thursday morning and then we leave from there. I'd think traffic going north away from Boston shouldn't be too bad in the morning. Then we take 495 down which won't have traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 14, 2011 Author Share Posted July 14, 2011 I was thinking a slight change of plans might make this easier. If I stay at Megan's the night before, Ray could pick you up and then drive right to her place Thursday morning and then we leave from there. I'd think traffic going north away from Boston shouldn't be too bad in the morning. Then we take 495 down which won't have traffic. What time do you think you'll be at my house? Approx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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