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jmonroe1

@abacomike said:
Just checked outside weather stats:

Temp is 52 degrees
Humidity is 32%
Under a 🚩 (red flag) warning due to low humidity levels.

Forecast is for low 40’s tonight with windchills in the low 30’s. Tomorrow’s low is forecast to be mid-30’s with windchills in the 20’s. Highs are forecast to be in the mid-50’s to low 60’s.

Going out for dinner tonight at 7:30 PM - pulling out my long pants, sweater and leather mid-length coat that I haven’t worn in over 10 years. Ugh!!!

When you want to trade places let me know.

There are plenty of folks up here that wear shorts when the temp is in the 60’s. I don’t but it’s not a rare sighting.

jmonroe

snakeweasel

Now here is a true Maverick
https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1976/ford/maverick/101691872

Funny thing is is that there is someone else selling a Maverick on the other side of the country using pictures of what looks like the exact same car.

stickguy

I spend a lot of time on the Maverick forum. The way I understand the listings is that customer orders never show up. But, anything that is a dealer order (stock, which are rare on these now, or a customer order that the buyer cancels before it arrives so reverts to the dealer) does show up on the website.

the problem is, Ford controls that, not the dealer. So whenever a dealer has an incoming unit, it stays on the website until it arrives and officially sold, even if someone puts a deposit down so it actually isn't available. So at this point, odds are most of the ones you see are not for sale. usually the way to tell is there are actually pictures taken at the dealer. Then you just have to deal with it being sold before you get there, and the dealer being slow to take the listing down!

jmonroe1

@stickguy said:
hard to get an accurate measurement with the wind but we got about 8" at least. Just finished getting the whole driveway done and my old bones are tired. At least the wife helped this time. usually I would have done a few passes (every 3-4") but since it snowed heavy from about midnight to dawn, that was not happening. Mostly stopped, just some flurries which can melt off.

only problem is the plows have not come through. so at some point I will be back out to clean out the ice dam at the bottom. Always fun.

my daughter is in Boston and they are getting pounded. Not that she cars, since she lives on the 9th floor of a tower and doesn't have a car. She did say playing basketball in the indoor gym, watching the snow through the windows, was fun!

It sounds like you need someone to make hot chocolate for you.

jmonroe

imidazol97

This morning it wa 3 deg when I went to get coffee. It got up to 24 deg. Going
back down to 17 or so overnight.

If we get anymore excess cold air here, we'll send it on down
south to y'all just for complaining about 52 deg. LOL

sda

imidazol97 said:

This morning it wa 3 deg when I went to get coffee. It got up to 24 deg. Going
back down to 17 or so overnight.

If we get anymore excess cold air here, we'll send it on down
south to y'all just for complaining about 52 deg. LOL

It’s pretty but keep it!

stickguy

I have had more than enough for winter this year. Though I would be perfectly content to never have the temp drop below 50 where I am ever again.

stickguy

very annoyed today. Since we were pretty well snowed in, after finishing the shoveling, decided to get everything together to do the taxes. Pulled out my list of documents required and the pile I collected that have arrived, and printed out the ones I have to do online.

and of course, there is 1 form missing. Nothing important but I hate starting them if I can't plow through and hit submit to efile when I am done. I'll probably bang them out anyway tomorrow and finish them at some point when I can. At least I will know if there is a refund coming and if I want to finish them!

driver100

abacomike said:

Just checked outside weather stats:

Temp is 52 degrees

Humidity is 32%

Under a 🚩 (red flag) warning due to low humidity levels.

Forecast is for low 40’s tonight with windchills in the low 30’s. Tomorrow’s low is forecast to be mid-30’s with windchills in the 20’s. Highs are forecast to be in the mid-50’s to low 60’s.

Going out for dinner tonight at 7:30 PM - pulling out my long pants, sweater and leather mid-length coat that I haven’t worn in over 10 years. Ugh!!!

But, NO SNOW I bet!

jmonroe1

@stickguy said:
I have had more than enough for winter this year. Though I would be perfectly content to never have the temp drop below 50 where I am ever again.

Well, I guess that rules out @Mike’s neighborhood. You gotta go to the tropics for what you want.

jmonroe

abacomike

Driving home from dinner last night I counted 4 green iguanas in the street looking lifeless - but they succumb to temps in the 30’s and low 40’s and fall out of our trees. They will be picked up early this morning before they revive from warmer temps by maintenance trucks and they will be turned in to the State wildlife agency. They are considered an invasive specie here in South Florida and is a feral population.

They are a nuisance!

graphicguy

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

explorerx4 said:

How about a job related scam? Salary was the biggest tipoff.

Hello A*** *!
Home based job for U.S. Citizen only!

I am an HR representative and I have found your profile through employment agency

No special knowledge is required to work on this position. You just need to be a attentive, diligent and responsible person.

Monthly pay will be in the range of 4000 to 5000 USD.

If you are interested in this vacancy, please let me know about that in your response, I will send you the detailed information.

A few oddities in the use of the English language too. I think most people would say $4000 to $5000 (U.S.maybe), not 4000 to 5000 USD.

One of my first jobs in accounting was with a company that had subsideraries around the globe. Since we were consistanty working with foreign currencies we would required to use "USD" as opposed to "$" to distiguse it from CND or AUD or NZD or any other country that calls their script "dollar". That requirement was company wide for standardization, so a job offer from HR would be #####USD.

My former company did that as well. And, for the very same reasons. Whenever we were drawing up contracts, quotes, purchase agreements, etc., it was actually required given we did business worldwide and the use of the $ sign was used with currencies outside of the U.S. Helped a bit when the euro was established and eliminated the different signs for several different European currencies, though.

graphicguy

Every winter, the midwesterners, north easterners and plains people go through the same ritual of vowing to not braving their environment. Those in the South and Southwest pledge the same thing during their brutal summers.

driver100

Only in Florida....Road rage incident, guy shoots other car right through his own windows: 1 min 18 sec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saQ72NZtrS0

snakeweasel

@graphicguy said:
Every winter, the midwesterners, north easterners and plains people go through the same ritual of vowing to not braving their environment. Those in the South and Southwest pledge the same thing during their brutal summers.

My sister who lives near Orlando tells people don't move to Florida because the summers are brutal with the heat and humidity. My response is a picture o have of the outside temperature on my dashboard that reads -25.

The fact is here we get our share of hot humid days, not as many as Florida, but we do get them. It's getting to the point where I can't handle the cold nearly as well as I used to but really dont mind the hot weather as much. And as they say, you don't have to shovel sunshine.

stickguy

I am the same way. Hot and humid does not bother me, but being real cold definitely does.

my wife is the opposite. Not a good pairing in that regard!

jmonroe1

@abacomike said:
Driving home from dinner last night I counted 4 green iguanas in the street looking lifeless - but they succumb to temps in the 30’s and low 40’s and fall out of our trees. They will be picked up early this morning before they revive from warmer temps by maintenance trucks and they will be turned in to the State wildlife agency. They are considered an invasive specie here in South Florida and is a feral population.

They are a nuisance!

Soup time.

jmonroe

jmonroe1

@snakeweasel said:

@graphicguy said:
Every winter, the midwesterners, north easterners and plains people go through the same ritual of vowing to not braving their environment. Those in the South and Southwest pledge the same thing during their brutal summers.

My sister who lives near Orlando tells people don't move to Florida because the summers are brutal with the heat and humidity. My response is a picture o have of the outside temperature on my dashboard that reads -25.

The fact is here we get our share of hot humid days, not as many as Florida, but we do get them. It's getting to the point where I can't handle the cold nearly as well as I used to but really dont mind the hot weather as much. And as they say, you don't have to shovel sunshine.

With the temps we’ve had for the last week, I’d like to try it for a while. Might not get anywhere but I’d still like to try.

jmonroe

stickguy

I already warned my wife that if I give in and move back to the north country where she wants to go, that in a few years we would probably start snowbirding. Jan-March in someplace like Savannah or Myrtle beach sounds good. Not sure I want to do the full Florida thing, or hang around with all those old people!

ab348

stickguy said:

Not sure I want to do the full Florida thing, or hang around with all those old people!

But you and your friends will all be that age then too.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

I have had more than enough for winter this year. Though I would be perfectly content to never have the temp drop below 50 where I am ever again.

It’s going up to about 50 here on Thursday so I hope we melt most of the little we have.

How would you like to drive through this:

https://youtu.be/2ETfOJyrtKc

oldfarmer50

driver100 said:

Only in Florida....Road rage incident, guy shoots other car right through his own windows: 1 min 18 sec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saQ72NZtrS0

Talk about poor control of your weapon. He’s lucky he didn’t shoot himself. Ignoring the illegality of his actions I can’t imagine trying to get your car wrecked by slamming on the brakes or shooting it up.

Once at work our chase driver pulled out a little to close to an oncoming car and the guy followed us onto the highway and did a brake check on us. He was driving a new Jaguar with MD plates. I wouldn’t be taking medical advice from somebody like that.

imidazol97

oldfarmer50 said:

Welcome to Ohio
https://youtu.be/2ETfOJyrtKc

Welcome to Ohio!

Years back I checked into getting reimbursed for a pothole on I75 between
Dayton and Cincinnati and for an alignment and a replacement rim
due to its being slightly off after impact.

You actually file a lawsuit case against the State of Ohio. You are suing them.
I don't know how it goes from there because I didn't bother.
I recall some newspaper articles of actual good reporting on the
problem and the requirement at the time.

IIRC Ohio has leased the turnpike to a company to operate and
receive the income from the tolls. So I wonder if you have to
sue that company? Ohio wanted the instant income so they
leased out the rights.

kyfdx

Locally, I see people have had decent success suing the City of Cincinnati for pothole damage (or, just getting reimbursed for a claim). Haven't heard of anyone having that success with the state, though.

ab348

The way it supposedly works here is that if you are the first person to report damage from a given pothole, tough luck, the city claims that is not their fault since they didn't know it was there. After that there is some set period of time by which they are supposed to repair it or at least put signage up. If you get damage within that period, you're also out of luck. After that period, supposedly you can file a claim.

In reality all I know is that every winter there are potholes here that don't get repaired until mid-summer. One of the first of the season appeared on a road near me in November and it remains untouched with no signage.

Having worked for the govt here this does not surprise me. I often fantasized about being the boss at one of the Highways Dept branches and convincing the staff to actively be on the lookout for potholes and incentivizing them to get them fixed in a timely way with some sort of reward. I was always amazed at how someone could work there and drive the roads, see the potholes, and do nothing about it.

jmonroe1

@ab348 said:
But you and your friends will all be that age then too.

Nothing like the pot calling the kettle black. But something tells me he’s hanging his hat on how he thinks and how he drives compared to most old fogies.

If he goes the Myrtle Beach route he’ll probably try to finagle our poster buddy @qbrozen into a good deal for at least a month.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50

ab348 said:

The way it supposedly works here is that if you are the first person to report damage from a given pothole, tough luck, the city claims that is not their fault since they didn't know it was there. After that there is some set period of time by which they are supposed to repair it or at least put signage up. If you get damage within that period, you're also out of luck. After that period, supposedly you can file a claim.

In reality all I know is that every winter there are potholes here that don't get repaired until mid-summer. One of the first of the season appeared on a road near me in November and it remains untouched with no signage.

Having worked for the govt here this does not surprise me. I often fantasized about being the boss at one of the Highways Dept branches and convincing the staff to actively be on the lookout for potholes and incentivizing them to get them fixed in a timely way with some sort of reward. I was always amazed at how someone could work there and drive the roads, see the potholes, and do nothing about it.

I seem to remember reading about lawyers in NYC who report every pothole and sidewalk hazard and then sue the city for not fixing them.

mjfloyd1

@driver100 said:
Only in Florida....Road rage incident, guy shoots other car right through his own windows: 1 min 18 sec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saQ72NZtrS0

Apparently the guy in the video pulled in front of someone and the guy behind him tailgated. The video guy brake checked and when the road opened up passed the shooter’s car and threw a water bottle. The shooter claims that he thought he was being shot at because of the noise of the water bottle hitting his vehicle so he shot.

Best never to engage. People are nuts

houdini1

graphicguy said:

Every winter, the midwesterners, north easterners and plains people go through the same ritual of vowing to not braving their environment. Those in the South and Southwest pledge the same thing during their brutal summers.

If I could get my wife to agree, I would have a condo in the Phoenix area and a condo in Flagstaff.

explorerx4

The guy with the gun was already aiming it at the car passing on the right before the water bottle hit.

mjfloyd1

@explorerx4 said:
The guy with the gun was already aiming it at the car passing on the right before the water bottle hit.

Agreed but that was his claim

explorerx4

Don't know what would have happened if the water bottle wasn't thrown.

driver100

I wonder why he gave them the dashcam footage, or does that help him?
And, if he thinks he heard a shot, his first instinct is to just fire away!
He's lucky he didn't shoot his foot off, he just shoots.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

I wonder why he gave them the dashcam footage, or does that help him?
And, if he thinks he heard a shot, his first instinct is to just fire away!
He's lucky he didn't shoot his foot off, he just shoots.

One of the first things you learn when you learn when and where to use a gun is not only look at your target but look at what's in front and behind your target. There are just too many people in the line of fire that can get hit that it makes it a don't fire situation. Plus he isn't even looking at his intended target as he fires wildly. Not to mention that he shouldn't have had his gun out in the first place. This guy is in big trouble, and he has no one to blame but himself.

stickguy

got ambitious today (plus with the roads still crappy with snow wasn't going anyplace) so banged out the taxes before football started. Got in the zone so finished both fed and state, already efiled Fed and have the state ready to mail tomorrow. Might be the first time I ever got them in before February. Getting about the same modest refund from both as last year which makes sense since nothing much changed!

can't even do the JM creative accounting now that itemized deductions are a lot lower than they used to be. Not a lot of optional stuff left.

nice to have it out of the way though. Can put the refunds into the Maverick fleet fund!

ab348

Haven’t received any of my official tax documents yet so it will be a while yet for me. I don’t think the Canadian TurboTax software for this year has been released yet anyway.

stickguy

US is usually out by now. I sat down last night to organize that and the only document I did not have yet was something that I did not need to report any numbers from. I doubt anything is going to be changing in the code at this point that would impact my return. But I will probably check in a few weeks anyway after doing any software updates and see if the bottom line changes.

I don't get anything fancy at this point (no child or tuition credits or anything like that) so not much can really change.

plus since the IRS is accepting returns, they must not think the rules aren't ready!

tjc78

Oh boy .. this game just got real interesting.

@stickguy
I don’t do my own taxes, but do try and follow the codes/rules. One thing I can’t stand is that you can’t deduct more than 10K in property taxes. If it wasn’t for that we would be over the standard deduction.

stickguy

yeah, I wrote off the Bengals a little bit too early today!

Our taxes are very boring now. 1 house, 1 job each in state, no kids, and just normal investments.

qbrozen

Still in OT, but this is by far the worst I've seen Mahomes play.

imidazol97

OMG. The Bengals are going to the Superbowl.

imidazol97

And the Hamilton County which owns the stadium the Bengals play
in wouldn't even plan a playoff party at the stadium viewing the
game on the jumbotron, etc.. Said it was too difficult to organize
crowd control and so on.

LOL. They should have had more faith.

houdini1

Congrats to the Bengals, I'll be rooting for them in the Super Bowl !!

stickguy

great game. Bengals looked like toast early but that 2nd half was incredible.

Glad to see fresh blood in the SB too.

mjfloyd1

@qbrozen said:
Still in OT, but this is by far the worst I've seen Mahomes play.

Or the best, depending on what team you are rooting for

jmonroe1

Congrats to the Bengals fans.

Where is @graphicguy? Is he biking back to Cincy or is he on his second bottle of Woodford?

jmonroe

ab348

Some really questionable coaching by KC in that game.

kyfdx

imidazol97 said:

And the Hamilton County which owns the stadium the Bengals play
in wouldn't even plan a playoff party at the stadium viewing the
game on the jumbotron, etc.. Said it was too difficult to organize
crowd control and so on.

LOL. They should have had more faith.

Who wants to sit outside in 32F weather to watch the game on a jumbotron, with beers priced at $14?

We were one mile away, with hot pizza and buckets of domestic beer for $13.

houdini1

ab348 said:

Some really questionable coaching by KC in that game.

Agree, also one of the best refereed games I have seen. They let them play.

mjfloyd1

The Mahomes QB play reminded me of Grossman playing for the Bears (vs Colts). It was like he was playing for the Colts.