June 2024 Obs/Disco

[Spanks45]

57 minutes ago, BrianW said:

7 AM update...

Not as cool as previous mornings, as blanket of mid level clouds precluded temps from free falling overnight. In fact, Boston did not fall below 70 degs last night. Thus, off to a milder start and this will help temps peak to 80-85 away from the coastline today

Definitely a warmer morning, but still managed 58⁰. Amazing stretch of sleeping weather. Haven't turned on the a/c yet this season, besides making sure it still worked. It has been a rough solar season so far, so it has been nice to bank what electric has been produced at this point. Temp up to 75⁰

[Typhoon Tip]

14 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

I broke a 3 wood like that once, but never two woods in a row. Did you have older clubs?

Probably ... yeah   ( weird answer; let me explain).

An old 'buddy' sold them to me like 7 years ago for 400 - I'm just ignorant enough about Golf attire and equipment, much less anything about proper storage and maintenance, to know any better.  So I suspect he took advantage of me.  I know clubs can be expensive, I knew that much - so off the knee 400 didn't seem to outlandish. But they were wrong for me. He definitely knew that. And now after some minoring research... there are 9-piece new sets for 300 at Amazon so yeah -

So I was treating them like a 'starter set' - just not formally so. I've never been serious about the game. It's something I enjoy, and as I get older, probably will be more serious about it as my various circles and dudes are all mid aged now and it's an alternative to turning ankles doing other shit. 

Anyway, at the time, I didn't know how old they were.  They may have already been used and abused for a longer while. I don't know.  Thing is, I used them for several years ( though not last year even once; terrible Golf year with daily dew dripping thunder rumbles it just never corresponded with any free time), off and on... no problems. 

So this is the part that is related to my ignorance about maintenance.  I let them stay in my trunk... hot, cold, hot, cold rinse and repeat. Bouncing around here and there...for 3 years.   I think it just weakened the connections at the bottom of the shaft.  Lesson learned... the hard way.  Could have been alone at a driving range - that would have been ideal.  Heh.  I can tell you ... successfully getting a ball down the fairway teeing off hole 1 in front of that particular type of crowd is pretty high on my list of priorities... But the opposite unfortunately was showcased - while looking and probably behaving like a plebe.     fuck

So using the opportunity to get serious. I'm checking places to get fitted for the right club. I'm 6'1.5" and my wrist to ground measurement is 36.5"   ...which put me about .5" longer than STD.  Unless Golf has some kind of metric for ill-repute, I'm assuming STD means "standard" and not sexually transmitted diseases...  Anyway, I spent some time after the humiliation reading about all this stuff and I have it pretty well figured out. The rest is finding a good outlet to pick up where I left off and ... probably going to cost some coin, but I'll just do the 1 and 3 woods to start, and rely on the old irons for a while longer.   That 400$ set ? the buddy I was with the other day says they are too short.  He's guessing they were for someone closer to 5'8" and probably .5" under STD. ... which would make them 1 to 2" to short for me. 

Time to get serious if I'm going to do it at all.  The guys want to do a regular Saturday thing

 

[DavisStraight]

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Probably ... yeah   ( weird answer; let me explain).

An old 'buddy' sold them to me like 7 years ago for 400 - I'm just ignorant enough about Golf attire and equipment, much less anything about proper storage and maintenance, to know any better.  So I suspect he took advantage of me.  I know clubs can be expensive, I knew that much.  So I was treating them like a 'starter set' - just not formally so. I've never been serious about the game. It's something I enjoy, and as I get older, probably will be more serious about it as my various circles and dudes are all mid aged now and it's an alternative to turning ankles doing other shit. 

Anyway, at the time, I didn't know how old they were.  They may have already been used and abused for a longer while. I don't know.  Thing is, I used them for several years ( though not last year even once; terrible Golf year with daily dew dripping thunder rumbles it just never corresponded with any free time). So this is the part that is related to my ignorance about maintenance.  I let them stay in my trunk... hot, cold, hot, cold rinse and repeat. Bouncing around here and there...for 3 years.   I think it just weekend the connections at the bottom of the shaft.  Lesson learned... the hard way.  Could have been alone at a driving range - that would have been ideal.  Heh.  I can tell you ... successfully getting a ball down the fairway teeing off hole 1 in front of that particular type of crowd is pretty high on my list of priorities... But the opposite unfortunately was showcased - while looking and probably behaving like a plebe.     fuck

So using the opportunity to get serious. I'm checking places to get fitted for the right club. I'm 6'1.5" and my wrist to ground measurement is 36.5"   ...which put me about .5" longer than STD.  Unless Golf has some kind of metric for ill-repute, I'm assuming STD means "standard" and not sexually transmitted diseases...  Anyway, I spent some time after the humiliation reading about all this stuff and I have it pretty well figured out. The rest is finding a good outlet that pick up where I left off and ... probably going to cost some coin, but I'll just do the 1 and 3 woods to start, and rely on the old irons for a while longer.   That 400$ set ?  my buddy says they are too short.  He's guessing they were for someone closer to 5'8" and probably .5" under STD. ... which would make them 1 to 2" to short for me. 

Time to get serious if I'm going to do it at all.  They guys want to do a regular Saturday thing

 

First of all, doing that on the first tee must have the spectators laughing their ass off, I've never seen that but would think it's funny. Second shorter clubs are easier to hit but to get the most out of your size you need clubs to match your height and other things. Doesn't cost anything to get fitted clubs other than the cost of the clubs.

[SJonesWX]

42 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said:

Ring of Fire look W to Sun?

more like Ring of 'Rhea

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7 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

First of all, doing that on the first tee must have the spectators laughing their ass off, I've never seen that but would think it's funny. Second shorter clubs are easier to hit but to get the most out of your size you need clubs to match your height and other things. Doesn't cost anything to get fitted clubs other than the cost of the clubs.

It happened twice ...

just honing the deeply egregious reality here -

I actually also suspect the shorter clubs were costing me strokes here and there. 

[Typhoon Tip]

This BD is odd...

Look at PSM when the boundary went through there a little while ago.  They actually shot up in temperatures when the wind cut around from NW to ENE

12:55	74.1	49.5	59.4	42	6.9	ENE	29.80	29.92	29.91	Mostly Cloudy	10.00	15000					OK
11:55	67.3	50.0	57.1	54	4.6	NW	29.79	29.91	29.90	Mostly Cloudy	10.00	14000	67.3	62.1

[Typhoon Tip]

Summery low... just 63.

KFIT's putting up a 80.6 at MW Utah ... so figure that's good for 80 anyway.   10 after 10?  

They seem to be a warm outlier though.  We're right next door here in Ayer and it's 77 averaged among the home sites on Wunder'.   KASH is only 73

NAM has Logon hung around 14C at 980 mb ...which having that over an ENE wind is probably also what the model thinks is the surface.  Yet, Logan is N wind at the moment and holding - probably doomed to switching on shore.  WPC analyzed the BD near PSM at prior to 12z but curiously...they washed it out on this last update.  That seems an odd option given our climo, but seeing as PSM bounced up 7 or 8 F when their wind went ENE ( strange)...this whole BD idea by the NAM may have been oversold if the boundary's indeed losing identity and also ...not having much impact.  PSM ENE at all of 6.5kts is paltry.  

BDs being oversold ... that is a contradiction of terms, huh. 

Right now we dead calm with mid level gunk melting away by the June solar penetration.  I was thinking we half had a chance to be strata and 66 with the smell of the ocean but not so much, so far.

[mreaves]

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

Golf outing season has started. Can't find a tee time till late in the afternoon.

That's my favorite time to play.  We teed off at 4:15 last night and pretty much had the course to ourselves on the back 9.  I'm much happier playing in the evening after all my stuff is done around the house etc.

[mreaves]

32 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Probably ... yeah   ( weird answer; let me explain).

An old 'buddy' sold them to me like 7 years ago for 400 - I'm just ignorant enough about Golf attire and equipment, much less anything about proper storage and maintenance, to know any better.  So I suspect he took advantage of me.  I know clubs can be expensive, I knew that much - so off the knee 400 didn't seem to outlandish. But they were wrong for me. He definitely knew that. 

So I was treating them like a 'starter set' - just not formally so. I've never been serious about the game. It's something I enjoy, and as I get older, probably will be more serious about it as my various circles and dudes are all mid aged now and it's an alternative to turning ankles doing other shit. 

Anyway, at the time, I didn't know how old they were.  They may have already been used and abused for a longer while. I don't know.  Thing is, I used them for several years ( though not last year even once; terrible Golf year with daily dew dripping thunder rumbles it just never corresponded with any free time), off and on... no problems. 

So this is the part that is related to my ignorance about maintenance.  I let them stay in my trunk... hot, cold, hot, cold rinse and repeat. Bouncing around here and there...for 3 years.   I think it just weakened the connections at the bottom of the shaft.  Lesson learned... the hard way.  Could have been alone at a driving range - that would have been ideal.  Heh.  I can tell you ... successfully getting a ball down the fairway teeing off hole 1 in front of that particular type of crowd is pretty high on my list of priorities... But the opposite unfortunately was showcased - while looking and probably behaving like a plebe.     fuck

So using the opportunity to get serious. I'm checking places to get fitted for the right club. I'm 6'1.5" and my wrist to ground measurement is 36.5"   ...which put me about .5" longer than STD.  Unless Golf has some kind of metric for ill-repute, I'm assuming STD means "standard" and not sexually transmitted diseases...  Anyway, I spent some time after the humiliation reading about all this stuff and I have it pretty well figured out. The rest is finding a good outlet to pick up where I left off and ... probably going to cost some coin, but I'll just do the 1 and 3 woods to start, and rely on the old irons for a while longer.   That 400$ set ? the buddy I was with the other day says they are too short.  He's guessing they were for someone closer to 5'8" and probably .5" under STD. ... which would make them 1 to 2" to short for me. 

Time to get serious if I'm going to do it at all.  The guys want to do a regular Saturday thing

 

Get something like this.

Callaway Golf Men's Strata Intro Complete 9 Piece Set (Regular Flex, Right Hand, Steel), Gray

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2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Get something like this.

Callaway Golf Men's Strata Intro Complete 9 Piece Set (Regular Flex, Right Hand, Steel), Gray

Heh... Callaway is the set that just blow up on me the other day.   Granted, a new/original set pro-rated and all that jazz ... probably makes the old one apples to oranges, but I think I'll test some of the other fruit out there just the same.  ha. 

 

[Chrisrotary12]

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

Tough to come by.

Up here I’ve chatted up the guys in the pro shops. Weekend tee times can be saved for a fee. Most weekend morning tee times are saved. However, if said saving group can’t attend, they have to cancel on Thursday. So I just monitor tee sheets on Thursday. 

[Chrisrotary12]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Probably ... yeah   ( weird answer; let me explain).

An old 'buddy' sold them to me like 7 years ago for 400 - I'm just ignorant enough about Golf attire and equipment, much less anything about proper storage and maintenance, to know any better.  So I suspect he took advantage of me.  I know clubs can be expensive, I knew that much - so off the knee 400 didn't seem to outlandish. But they were wrong for me. He definitely knew that. And now after some minoring research... there are 9-piece new sets for 300 at Amazon so yeah -

So I was treating them like a 'starter set' - just not formally so. I've never been serious about the game. It's something I enjoy, and as I get older, probably will be more serious about it as my various circles and dudes are all mid aged now and it's an alternative to turning ankles doing other shit. 

Anyway, at the time, I didn't know how old they were.  They may have already been used and abused for a longer while. I don't know.  Thing is, I used them for several years ( though not last year even once; terrible Golf year with daily dew dripping thunder rumbles it just never corresponded with any free time), off and on... no problems. 

So this is the part that is related to my ignorance about maintenance.  I let them stay in my trunk... hot, cold, hot, cold rinse and repeat. Bouncing around here and there...for 3 years.   I think it just weakened the connections at the bottom of the shaft.  Lesson learned... the hard way.  Could have been alone at a driving range - that would have been ideal.  Heh.  I can tell you ... successfully getting a ball down the fairway teeing off hole 1 in front of that particular type of crowd is pretty high on my list of priorities... But the opposite unfortunately was showcased - while looking and probably behaving like a plebe.     fuck

So using the opportunity to get serious. I'm checking places to get fitted for the right club. I'm 6'1.5" and my wrist to ground measurement is 36.5"   ...which put me about .5" longer than STD.  Unless Golf has some kind of metric for ill-repute, I'm assuming STD means "standard" and not sexually transmitted diseases...  Anyway, I spent some time after the humiliation reading about all this stuff and I have it pretty well figured out. The rest is finding a good outlet to pick up where I left off and ... probably going to cost some coin, but I'll just do the 1 and 3 woods to start, and rely on the old irons for a while longer.   That 400$ set ? the buddy I was with the other day says they are too short.  He's guessing they were for someone closer to 5'8" and probably .5" under STD. ... which would make them 1 to 2" to short for me. 

Time to get serious if I'm going to do it at all.  The guys want to do a regular Saturday thing

 

Golf & Ski Warehouse in Hudson, NH is my go to golf shop. New, used, etc.

[klw]

17 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

 

The parking lot was filled with convertible Corvettes to BMW SUVs, of course your pet Merc's and Lexi's, too. I think I might have seen something that looked a bit like an Aston Martin   ....  and of course, my Toyota Corolla.  Hey, it's a "Sport" class so I had that goin' for my image. 

Is your Corolla FWD or the AWD?  I am curious as I will likely soon be replacing my Prius (I crossed 294000 miles this morning) as am wondering how the AWD is on the Corolla/Prius.

[Typhoon Tip]

11 minutes ago, klw said:

Is your Corolla FWD or the AWD?  I am curious as I will likely soon be replacing my Prius (I crossed 294000 miles this morning) as am wondering how the AWD is on the Corolla/Prius.

Front wheel...  It's not an EV or even hybrid.   But the car's tip top at 160K miles.  I've put ... maybe 1200 or 1500 in it in routine maintenance, which went as far once as a caliper/break job which was my fault so not discrediting the car for that.  Mainly just new tires when needed, and I was buying low grade ones until I smartened up about that.  Those say 10,000miles but you really get maybe 5 before the Mass/state inspectors flag you for interior tread wear or some shit. Better off ponying up for the 30k (minimum mileage), and you'll get 4 or 5 years of inspections. 

So basically what I'm saying is that I've been very happy with my Toyota. It runs smooth, and handles great.  There are minor complaints, like some of the touch screen functionality of the console don't work anymore but I don't need that ...it's certainly not worth looking at new car for that.  Plus one of the back speakers can't handle base without buzzing.  Minor unremarkable inconveniences. 

That all said, I am interested in looking at Toyota for hybrid on my purchase.  The only trick is... I don't like buying new cars.  I prefer to purchase them about 30K with good car-fact heritage documented.  I'm not sure that's advisable with battery tech though. I'd go full EV but...I think there's a chance society will collapse and charging might become a problem when/if that dystopian projection takes place. heh. ( some truth to that... ).

[mreaves]

49 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Up here I’ve chatted up the guys in the pro shops. Weekend tee times can be saved for a fee. Most weekend morning tee times are saved. However, if said saving group can’t attend, they have to cancel on Thursday. So I just monitor tee sheets on Thursday. 

At my club you get to reserve a weekly tee time if you pay your membership in full by March 1.  There are people who have had the same tee time for 40 years. And they never cancel.

[mreaves]

48 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Golf & Ski Warehouse in Hudson, NH is my go to golf shop. New, used, etc.

I bought my Callaway Rogue ST's at the W. Lebanon location a few weeks ago.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

COC and golf in June…just love to see and feel it. 

[powderfreak]

46F for the low and tickling 80F at 11:30am.  Fantastic.

[Damage In Tolland]

21 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

COC and golf in June…just love to see and feel it. 

Feeling Coc k and loving clubs?

[WxWatcher007]

 

[weatherwiz]

Mount Holyoke 

[Damage In Tolland]

23 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. Oaks and white pines. Feel for the uninstalleds opening windows and just painting the inside yellow 

[Brian5671]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. Oaks and white pines. Feel for the uninstalleds opening windows and just painting the inside yellow 

Mostly ended here but last week there were clouds of yellow off the White pines when the wind blew...

[Sn0waddict]

10 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Mostly ended here but last week there were clouds of yellow off the White pines when the wind blew...

It’s still pretty bad here. I only get allergies when they are real bad, and I’ve been telling them the past few days. My car is covered in pollen as well. 

[Brian5671]

1 minute ago, Sn0waddict said:

It’s still pretty bad here. I only get allergies when they are real bad, and I’ve been telling them the past few days. My car is covered in pollen as well. 

yeah there's some here but last week seemed to be the peak-the rains came at a good time.

[Typhoon Tip]

18 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. Oaks and white pines. Feel for the uninstalleds opening windows and just painting the inside yellow 

Why not invest or at least at minimum, inquire/investigate Mini split technology?

You're a Republican, right?  Which risking the assumption for a moment, doesn't that also mean you are inherently interested in both the acquisition of, but most importantly the retention of your personal wealth?  This becomes simple arithmetic - and obvious - at this point:  Mini splits will cool your home for a significant fraction of the cost that is required to run those window machines. 

Or perhaps you already have Mini's and your just yanking chains? 

[TheClimateChanger]

51 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

This is where manual observation would come in handy. If that picture is recent and reasonably accurate for KTAN, there is no ceiling there.

[Brian5671]

13 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Why not invest or at least at minimum, inquire/investigate Mini split technology?

You're a Republican, right?  Which risking the assumption for a moment, doesn't that also mean you are inherently interested in both the acquisition of, but most importantly the retention of your personal wealth?  This becomes simple arithmetic - and obvious - at this point:  Mini splits will cool your home for a significant fraction of the cost that is required to run those window machines. 

Or perhaps you already have Mini's and your just yanking chains? 

Or central air!  Granted it's expensive to install but given the warming climate it's almost necessary around here vs 40-50 yrs ago.   The mini splits are a good in between and reasonably affordable and quieter than noisy and ugly window units.

[Typhoon Tip]

12 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Or central air!  Granted it's expensive to install but given the warming climate it's almost necessary around here vs 40-50 yrs ago.   The mini splits are a good in between and reasonably affordable and quieter than noisy and ugly window units.

I went Minis... It actually makes the best sense for return on investment for this little abode.

My house is technically listed as a single family home - yeah right!  If that "family" consists of one dude and a cat.  I mean it has an upstairs with two bedrooms, but it's really a geometric marvel how that is the case.

Anyway, I'm not sure the next owner won't just raise the fucker and build a new edifice as,  though I've improved the foundation ... it is still a nasty silver fish breading hole crawlspace and mouse rest stop on the rodentia interstate. It doesn't have a laundry room so I have to stack the washer and drier kitty corner to my kitchen counter/cabinetry... there's too many things about this place to make it unappealing to all but first time buyers. I'm just trying first and foremost of getting away from NGRID charging 700 a mo in electricity with these resistor base-boards from 1965. Anyway, not worth a whole ducting system for this tiny volume. 

[Cyclone-68]

43 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I went Minis... It actually makes the best sense for return on investment for this little abode.

My house is technically listed as a single family home - yeah right!  If that "family" consists of one dude and a cat.  I mean it has an upstairs with two bedrooms, but it's really a geometric marvel how that is the case.

Anyway, I'm not sure the next owner won't just raise the fucker and build a new edifice as,  though I've improved the foundation ... it is still a nasty silver fish breading hole crawlspace and mouse rest stop on the rodentia interstate. It doesn't have a laundry room so I have to stack the washer and drier kitty corner to my kitchen counter/cabinetry... there's too many things about this place to make it unappealing to all but first time buyers. I'm just trying first and foremost of getting away from NGRID charging 700 a mo in electricity with these resistor base-boards from 1965. Anyway, not worth a whole ducting system for this tiny volume. 

Gotta ask..,What’s the cats name?