No, I haven’t been posting much.
In the first place, another one of those meta-reorganizations is taking place. I’ve bought additional software and will shortly launch a completely repurposed site that will feature not only a blog, but everything I’ve ever written. A tall order, but there will be many more reasons to visit. The decisions involved are brain-numbing, particularly when it comes to starting over vs. using the old domains, etc. In any event, stay tuned, and something will be happening soon.
On the bloggy side, this morning’s rant is over Snow Hysteria. Yesterday we in New Mexico were treated to a bombastic, histrionic, end-on-the-world WINTER STARM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW!!! Oh, it would be fierce: 10 inches all at once, ye gods! My wife got anxious, her studio landlady phoned with “snow procedures,” and I was generally pissed, because the ground isn’t frozen, not even remotely — and there’s only been one minor overnight freeze. No way in hell could there be heavy snow, but the weather service stuck to the warning, which is still in effect until tonight.
Around here what counts is the “snow line,” the atltitude level above which the precipitation falls as snow. Well, the weather bureau blew that estimate by 2,500 - 3,000 feet, which ought to get someone fired. According to this morning’s revised forecast, there might be a little snow on the mountaintops by the end of the day, which wouldn’t be anything but normal. How can there be a WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW if it’s only going to fall up where nobody lives? Right now all we have is some fog and a little spitty rain. Morons…
And then there’s Qwest, which finally acknowledged last night that no, the 118 kbps I was getting instead of 1.5 Mbps (one-tenth the usual speed!) means they have a problem. In fact, they told me there’d been “numerous reports” of customers assigned to the same server having substandard service, which begs the question of why they hadn’t taken any action before my call, but never mind: it’s a little better this morning, so I can post this, and Qwest has promised to fix the server within 48 hours.
So that’s what’s going on here. Feel free to jump in!
Comment by Mtnred
1 October 14, 2008, 9:07 am o'clock |
Yup. It’s first snowfall time, alright. The road to work was a bit slick this morning with a tiny amount of spitty snow, so OF COURSE, there was a 7 car pileup on Hwy 145 outside of Telluride heading up to Mountain Village. So, there we sat in traffic for an hour and I’m calling for a hit on a certain San Miguel Sheriff’s deputy who has his head stuck so far up his ass that I don’t think he can breathe. This was not the first morning that I was glad to be in a company shuttle van where it was warm and I didn’t have to drive. If I had been in my car, I would now be in jail because I would have gotten out and punched out the deputy. Geez…. What are they going to do when winter gets here and its like this every day, multiplied by several feet of snow and ice? If I didn’t have the most beautiful commute in the world, I think I’d say screw it and go work somewhere else.
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