Storm the bastille! Down with the monarchy! Here's a little history. I did a basic search for 'bastille day women' and apparently that's an important facet of that event and movement that I was unaware of. I mean, I was sort of looking for porny pics but this is enlightening too. If it were present day, y'all would have to storm the Bastille without me while I stayed home and napped. The summer busyness has caught up to me and I'm whooped. I realized that I was forgetting to take my vitamins and restarted those with good effect a few days ago, but it'll be a few days before I feel vivacious again. It's a high of 103 today. Anyone else feeling the heat? I'm with my kid at a swim lesson and wish I could get in the pool. I just ordered a rash guard swimsuit so I can enjoy the water and not burn. I hate sunscreen and prefer covering up if possible. @Crown Royal, so sorry for your losses. It's never easy, and I hope your family is doing ok during these tough times. @Nettdata, those pork tenderloins looked fab. I need to do more meat on the traeger. Your pictures were inspiring. Y'all be good.
Intended to go for a hike today but they forecasted thunderstorms in the area of the summit and I didn't think we could get up and down in time so we bagged it. So I'm working and staring out at the crystal clear blue skies, which my brain recognizes have nothing to do with what may be happening at a mountain summit an hour away from me, but for which my heart is telling me, "you fucking moron, you idiot, you COMPLETE and UTTER DIPSHIT. You could be out enjoying this weather. Karma is going to make it rain for the next month just to punish you for missing this opportunity." Needless to say, I am not fully engaged in my work today.
It's mid-low 80s this week. In July. In Sacramento. What global warming? Sarcasm, but I'll take it. Just absolutely beautiful weather instead of the ball drenching 100+ that we usually have right now
It's been hot and humid for a while now. Rain hits over the next few days, and hopefully it'll cool things down a bit. I'm hoping to fuck off in the Airstream next week to work remotely for a week or 2... I hope it's not as hot as it is now. I much prefer it to be a bit cooler than scorching hot.
Last week a guy at a golf course near me was struck by lightning. He died this morning from his injuries. Stay safe man.
Few years back I was visiting family in Michigan and we went up to the Sleeping Bear Dunes. I'm walking towards the top to get a view of Lake Michigan when alarms start going off. My step mother starts freaking out yelling for me to turn back. Like, immediately. I wanted to continue as I was probably a minute or so from the top but I notice everyone is hightailing it back down the dune so I turn back. Get back to the car and found out that it was a thunderstorm alarm and its not uncommon for people to get fucked up by lightning on the dunes.
Close to 90 degrees and humid AF here today. I was putting my new mower deck on and was dripping sweat just turning a damned wrench. But I got it and the mowing all done before going to dinner with the retired paramedics I used to work with. About half of those old bastards need to get their hearing aids checked because holy shit they’re loud. But they’re some of my oldest friends ( literally and, well, literally ) and I love them all.
It’s not even 7am and the heat and humidity are already hitting disgusting levels. It’s going to be a fun work day.
Last year we hiked up to a pretty decent summit (over 10k feet) with thunderstorms in the forecast but not until later in the afternoon. We tagged the summit and saw the black clouds building on the horizon, so we didn't dawdle on the way back down. We were just about back to the tree line when things started to get really dark and the thunder started rumbling in the distance. Two groups of people passed us going up to the summit. One group stopped and asked us how the views were and made some comment about getting wet. I mentioned that I didn't think I'd feel comfortable in the lightning and they all just looked at each other, shrugged, and kept going. Based on our pace, they would have gotten to the summit smack in the middle of the lightning show. Fucking morons. I actually checked the local news the next day to see if anyone died.
Every year or so at least one person dies on Mount Washington up here. More need to be rescued. Either dehydration, harsh weather exposure, lightning, avalanches, falls etc. are all very real risks that people do not take seriously. When I hiked to the summit a few years ago, we ran into two older women who had a small bottle of water to share between them in 80 degree heat and zero shade above the tree line. When we started coming down, they had not even gotten close to the top yet and it was getting dark. We told them to turn around, they didn't listen. Stupid.
That’s the scariest mountain in your country— it might not be that tall but it’s a foreboding death-tower in every way. That cog railway is very cool though, if you can stand those crazy winds at the top.
It has the most extreme weather conditions on the entire planet. When the weather is good, it's a great hike. It's hard, but I thought Katahdin was harder.
This Coldplaygate thing is hilarious. Cheaters getting caught and roasted by the internet, lol. CEO screwing the head of HR! It does also have me wondering how this will affect me personally. Because whatever Astronomer does, they do it for the Autodesk, whose CAD software I use, to do what I do. I look at their website, it was a bunch of jargon. "Self managed Apache Airflow®" and "efficient data pipelines". Da'fuck does that even mean?
The CEO’s statement is hilarious. “Let me cheat in private!” The wife already changed her social media away from his last name, and then killed it all because of the attention.
I read some article saying both statements that are circulating are fake, but that was definitely funny. Article said the guy hasn't released any statement. It's getting hard to tell nowadays.
What a horrible humiliation for wife. The whole planet finding out her husband likes Coldplay. Apparently this guy kind has a shit reputation in the Boston tech scene. Sounds like he's a total douchebag, aside from ruining his family's life.
When will people finally accept that privacy does not exist anymore? Plus that being said— how stupid are you to fuck around a place like a concert or sporting event? I go to watch shows or games in Toronto— 100 miles from my home— and constantly run into people I know back in London at them.
That's the Billy Goat Trail in Great Falls. Everyone thinks, it's just north of DC, and along the C&O Canal towpath, so hard can it be? It has near vertical in sections with rocky drops into the Potomac river. Also, that area of the river can quickly change depth from relatively minor weather miles up river thanks to how narrow the gorge gets. The National Park service routinely has to evac people off the trail.