Month: March 2008

snow
we had that
no more now, please

Happy Easter from michele.

Addon – sorry Carmi 😉

Lol – would you believe that I was leaning out of my upstairs window, with the camera braced on the frame to mitigate the blurriness that could have come from a 1/8th shutter speed ?

Glad you like it 🙂 Definitely a case of seeing an opportunity to catch the moment before Chronos decided he didn’t want to be camera shy …

I love this pic. I remember our cat would do the same thing: wherever we were, he knew when we were looking at him.

Great geometry, color and tone.

Michele sent me back to ruminate.

The British attitude towards snow has changed a bit over the past decade or so. I think you could now sum it up by describing a series of stages :

1 – Anticipation of snowball fights.

This is where we look forward to playing in the snow and having a few innocent good fun snowball flinging matches with our friends.

2 – Thinking of time off work due to trouble moving on the roads.

Probably comes under stage 1, as I bet all of us would rather be enjoying ourselves outside of an office than being stuck inside the office. Probably depends on the job we’re doing 😉

3 – Uhoh – this snow’s going to close the roads …

… And make it really awkward to move around. I’m currently writing from home, as my sister and I decided not to travel due to anticipating trouble :
Met Office Severe Weather Page
The link is to the Met Office warnings page, currently showing “Be Prepared” for half of GB, with “Be Aware” for another 15%. It’s subject to change though – the warnings will probably be gone tomorrow.

4 – And then we remember what being snowbound can be like …

We look forward to snow over here, the influence of the Gulf Stream (and dare I say it – Global Warming) means it’s been a long time since snow was a major factor in UK weather. But when the snow comes, we rapidly remember the problems it can cause. BBC have a few pictures of the snow’s influence up on their news site.

I have to be honest and say all things considered, I prefer snow to the high winds we’ve been having lately. Snow is a tangible thing that you can see and touch. Knowing it’s there means you can see trouble coming and have a better chance of avoiding coming a cropper. Wind though, leads to trucks being blown over or cars being pushed into the next lane. At least one building will be without a roof, people get flooded. Ice is nasty but you get warned by the steering going light, high wind is another order of danger though.

Hoping we don’t get too many casualties over the holiday weekend. Wrap up warm people !

PS Think my boiler got the idea I was keeping an eye on it. Since I noted here that it was sulking on me, it’s stayed lit 🙂

Lol – it’s a poor, neglected old thing this laptop but it’s still chugging along 🙂

The screen, trackpad, cd drive and a few other things are having problems on it but the thing that needs the reboot is its reluctance to play games after a while … It’ll just automatically minimise the window that has the game in it when you try to switch to the game.

Bit like it saying “Nooo – I’m tired, use your big powerful desktop for those games that make me hot and bothered” 🙂

Dropped by from Michele’s tonight…I had to laugh when you wrote about your laptop having “issues”. Sounds like every other computer I’ve ever used 🙂

Just finished a session on Eve, where I was hoping to get some sleep in doing a bit of mining. That means, one computer, one screen and one job to do.

Doh ! Had to fire up my second Eve account as well so I could help with getting what we mined back to base again … So that’s :

Getting the Eve game on to this laptop,
Rebooting this laptop so it’ll play nicely (laptop has issues …)
Dodging from desktop screen to laptop screen doing two different jobs.
Crossing fingers and hoping the police polish off the pirate who tried to blow up my very expensive mining ship.

It wipes me out rather quickly playing the game on the two computers, so I’m going to fall asleep in front of the cricket. Hopefully England will pick up from where they are at the moment, they’ve started as badly as you can start in a game …

TBB – lol, you can only see a small portion of my “garden” … The bit to the lower left is my neighbour’s, the bit behind belongs to the people that run the Chinese takeaway.

Dianne – dunno how long that chair’s been there, I don’t remember not seeing it and I’ve lived here for 6 years !

Is that his chair or can anyone sit and enjoy?

They can smell you before they see or hear you.