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3944. Ronski - 2/11/2007 11:15:04 PM Some models are bringing this week's storm closer to the coast leading to a changeover to rain after 3 to 6 inches of snow in NYC and other coastal areas, but Accuweather's Henry Margusity thinks those models are wrong and that the storm will stay farther out, but not too far, leading to the following totals (note that it should read Tuesday-Wednesday, not Monday-Tuesday):
3945. wonkers2 - 2/12/2007 6:10:36 AM A crisis on teacher and public employee pension and retirement plans is on the horizon. Funding is inadequate for pensions in some places and non-existent for retiree health care. 3946. wonkers2 - 2/12/2007 6:11:39 AM erratum: funding for teacher and public employee pension and RETIREE HEALTH CARE PLANS.... 3947. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/12/2007 6:12:13 AM For the Cap'n:
Bill worked in a pickle factory. He had been employed there for a number of years when he came home one day to confess to his wife that he had a terrible compulsion. He had an urge to stick his penis into the pickle slicer. His wife suggested that he should see a sex therapist to talk about it, but Bill said he would be too embarrassed. He vowed to overcome the compulsion on his own. One day a few weeks later, Bill came home and his wife could see at once that something was seriously wrong.
"What's wrong, Bill?" she asked.
"Do you remember that I told you how I had this tremendous urge to put my penis into the pickle slicer?"
"Oh, Bill, you didn't" she exclaimed.
"Yes, I did." he replied.
"My God, Bill, what happened?"
"I got fired." "No, Bill. I mean, what happened with the pickle
slicer?" He replied: " Oh...she got fired too."
3948. wonkers2 - 2/12/2007 5:23:35 PM The Cap'n sez, "Ha!Ha!Ha! Thet's my kinder pickel slicer!" 3949. Ronski - 2/12/2007 5:54:34 PM Update: storm moving inland, some changeover on coast.
 3950. Ronski - 2/13/2007 7:32:13 PM Latest map from Accuweather:
 3951. thoughtful - 2/13/2007 7:51:29 PM Ronski, maybe you should've moved to Oswego, if you want snow...
You could ski off the roof! 3952. wabbit - 2/13/2007 8:49:44 PM I remember having that kind of big snow as a child living in Rome, NY. We kids thought it was great. 3953. Ronski - 2/13/2007 10:03:47 PM Yeah, it's a little too flat in those parts. I'm not a big X-country skier, and not a snowmobiler. But the snow sure is pretty. 3954. thoughtful - 2/13/2007 11:08:59 PM I don't understand what you do with it all...if you've got 10' on the ground, how do you shovel it up high enough to clear the drive???
And if you've got 10' on the ground already blocking your windows and doors, where do you move the snow on the roof to so your roof doesn't cave in. Amazing!
Of course I remember being at crater lake in june when they just opened the loop road...there was a section still coned off and we went down there only to see this gigantic 'glacier' sliding across the roadway. They said it was a light winter for them...they normally get 50' a year! Yikes! 3955. Magoseph - 2/14/2007 11:55:15 PM You maps, Ronski, are right on track--thank you! 3956. alistairConnor - 2/24/2007 12:28:57 PM It's nice to have hot water again.
Two weeks ago, I got a phone call from the tenants (their apartment adjoins mine) to say that there is water leaking into my kitchen, the hot water cylinder has rusted through. I instruct them to shut the water off (they hadn't thought of that) and try to get a plumber... I had just arrived for a week's skiing with the girls, there was nothing much I could do myself.
The plumber rings me on Monday, does some salvage work, and tells me he'll give me a quote... We get home on Saturday, he hasn't been back to me, and there is neither hot nor cold water in the house. I call him, pretty furious, and he explains he's just finished his quote... and he can come on Thursday. I manage to get the cold water back on (which was beyond him, apparently) and we get by without hot, or rather, with a cauldron of water on the wood stove. Not having a shower for three days doesn't seem to have bothered the girls much. I took sponge baths.
Thursday, I'm on my way home from work, the plumber rings to tell me they haven't finished... OK, I'm heading home to a house without water, hot or cold, nor heating (the cylinder is connected to the central heating)... I stay with a friend. Now, I'm faced with the cleanup...
It's obliged me to clean up one end of the kitchen which needed it anyway. Too bad about the water stains on the wallpaper. Now I've got to tackle my bedroom -- that's where the cylinder is -- it was well overdue too. 3957. Magoseph - 2/24/2007 3:09:03 PM My elder son wants us to live in a two-bedroom house situated near a mall and a park without a dining room, only a large family room. (I guess he knows his mother very well as far as cooking for others) If we wanted to go anywhere in his city, we would take a taxi and all other matters of traveling, doctors’ visits, and shopping would be handled by him, or rather his wife—she’s the one in charge of mundane tasks. I hate to admit that this horrifying scenario for our future is starting to look good if only for the fact that any maintenance would not be a problem anymore.
3958. arkymalarky - 2/24/2007 5:18:05 PM Man, Alistair, there is nothing worse than water troubles. Good for you hitting a few other things in the process of dealing with it. Thank goodness we haven't had them, but my parents have. Bro fixed it, thankfully. They have a five bedroom, three bath house with a huge pool (I call that retroactive child abuse) and ONE hot water heater. It suddenly and completely busted. The plumber they called wanted several thousand dollars (don't remember exactly--3 or 4) to fix it.
We did have to cut out half our bedroom carpet when the dehumidifier leaked--after not catching it for a couple of weeks. It was pretty bad--lots of mold. I'm just going to get rid of the carpet in there this summer, since I'm not supposed to have it where I sleep anyway. 3959. arkymalarky - 2/24/2007 5:21:35 PM It doesn't sound at all horrifying, Mags. What do you think is horrifying about it? If I had to live around people it's the only way I'd want to do it, in a town or city neighborhood. I wouldn't give up my car, but I'd love the convenience of everything I wanted being so handy. 3960. thoughtful - 2/26/2007 4:41:44 PM My MIL was able to live independently for a few years in her NYC apartment despite being blind. She knew her way around the neighborhood, the local shopkeepers all knew her and kept a special eye out for her and she did quite well. She obviously couldn't drive, but she could walk. She also took buses or cabs as necessary to get to where she needed to go. There are advantages to such things.
3961. Magoseph - 2/26/2007 5:06:28 PM What do you think is horrifying about it?
I shouldn't have used that word, Arky--I detest for anyone to map the future for me. 3962. thoughtful - 2/26/2007 9:30:23 PM I detest for anyone to map the future for me.
As do we all, but unfortunately, we are not the masters of our own destiny. Most often health and age get in the way. That's why they say growing old is only for the courageous. 3963. arkymalarky - 2/27/2007 12:46:24 AM I don't blame you for that Mags, but you still make your own decisions, and I would continue to assert that right with my kids. Heaven knows, my parents certainly do it with me. I said don't buy a two-story house with a pool! I said don't get an SUV and go to Florida! I said don't drive into NYC by yourselves without even a hotel reservation! I told Dad I've finally resigned myself to one day finding him in the bottom of the swimming pool in his Speedoes. At least he'll have died happy.
Everyone yaps about teenage rebellion. No one talks about parental rebellion.
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