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Erat 01-06-2014 06:30 PM

Haven't moved the NB out of the garage yet.

Though, they haven't plowed my street yet either.... Yay for poverty city.

sixshooter 01-06-2014 06:41 PM

I'm freezing my ass off. It is 51 freaking degrees! Oh, the humanity!

redturbomiata 01-06-2014 07:25 PM

It was -8 all day and now its dropped to -10 with a wind chill down between -30 and -40. Anyone in Florida have a spare bedroom they want to rent for a few weeks?

Pinky 01-06-2014 08:55 PM


Originally Posted by redturbomiata (Post 1089131)
It was -8 all day and now its dropped to -10 with a wind chill down between -30 and -40. Anyone in Florida have a spare bedroom they want to rent for a few weeks?

Brobee, it's not much better here in Jacksonville. We'll see 21 tonight. To a Floridian, that's like -50.

Pinky 01-06-2014 08:58 PM

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Erat 01-06-2014 09:06 PM

Well, they said the low was going to be -10F tonight. But it's already -15F and seems to keep falling...

Who knows.

Garage heater is almost running constant, but the house heater isn't. This new house seems to be insulated very well.

rleete 01-06-2014 09:30 PM

Ha! Single digits outside (hasn't fallen minus yet) and the hot tub was heavenly.

sixshooter 01-06-2014 09:33 PM

Oh, yeah. I guess I need to switch the home thermostat to heat.

TurboTim 01-07-2014 07:58 AM

Late school opening means no damn school buses adding to the commute. I had a very calm commute this morning.

Braineack 01-07-2014 08:17 AM


Originally Posted by TurboTim (Post 1089236)
Late school opening means no damn school buses adding to the commute. I had a very calm commute this morning.

it's surprising how much of a difference that makes...

adamiata 01-07-2014 08:24 AM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1089242)
it's surprising how much of a difference that makes...

Those fuckers stop at every goddamned house now. I used to have to walk to the post office where they picked us all up at once instead of making twenty five individual stops. Getting stuck behind the wrong bus can double my commute time :vash:

rleete 01-07-2014 09:06 AM

Think of the (obese) children!

Braineack 01-07-2014 09:41 AM


Originally Posted by adamiata (Post 1089244)
Those fuckers stop at every goddamned house now. I used to have to walk to the post office where they picked us all up at once instead of making twenty five individual stops. Getting stuck behind the wrong bus can double my commute time :vash:

My favorite part is the caravan of SUVs that line the kiss and ride lane and the next 10,000' feet of neighborhood streets.

Oscar 01-07-2014 10:54 AM


Originally Posted by adamiata (Post 1089244)
Those fuckers stop at every goddamned house now. I used to have to walk to the post office where they picked us all up at once instead of making twenty five individual stops. Getting stuck behind the wrong bus can double my commute time :vash:

I guess it's illegal to overtake them while they're stopped?


Fresh SSD and laptop came in. I *hate* installing OSes. I always seem to fuck up something. I was so close to just ordering a fresh W7 dvd w/ key since I was done browsing the millions of ISOs trying to find a working one.

Once again my retardation for anything non-mechanical shows itself:loser:

adamiata 01-07-2014 11:07 AM


Originally Posted by Oscar (Post 1089317)
I guess it's illegal to overtake them while they're stopped?

You'd likely get dragged out of the car by a German shepherd and tazed for that.

Scrappy Jack 01-07-2014 11:55 AM


Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 1089160)
Oh, yeah. I guess I need to switch the home thermostat to heat.

I'm on a mission to not run the heat, but did set the auto level to 63F. It got to 65F last night.

Luckily, it will be back in the high 70s - low 80s by the weekend.


For all of those northerners thinking we won't be nearly as smug come summertime, think about the differentials.

NYC vs Orlando
-2F vs 37F (with wind chill) in the winter
90F vs 100F (with humidity) in the summer


I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be much less smug (about the weather) at any point in the year. :party:

z31maniac 01-07-2014 12:11 PM


Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack (Post 1089355)

NYC vs Orlando
-2F vs 37F (with wind chill) in the winter
90F vs 100F (with humidity) in the summer

I think in 2012 Oklahoma had the highest average temperature of anywhere in the country for the year. 105-110 during the day in the summer(something like 48 out 50 days in June/July/August that year), not below 86-87 at night. A/C runs 21-22 hours a day in our older home.

We've also been dealing with snow well below freezing temps, but will still have multiple days well above 100, and we still have humidity here.

Throw in the tornadoes.......

Yeah, we are only still here because the wife makes F----- good money and moving means her starting over from $0.

Oscar 01-07-2014 12:12 PM

OK, SSDs are jizz. ~7 seconds from BIOS screen to a usable desktop. Why did I not do this before?

Joe Perez 01-07-2014 12:20 PM


Originally Posted by Oscar (Post 1089364)
OK, SSDs are jizz. ~7 seconds from BIOS screen to a usable desktop. Why did I not do this before?

To be fair, a lot of that is just due to the OS still being new and clean. It'll slow down over time as you start to pile DLLs and drivers and TSRs and startup scripts and services into it, just as it does with the spinny thing.

But they're still cool. :bigtu:

Oscar 01-07-2014 12:23 PM

Yes obviously. Still a huuuuge improvement over my old rig. Now to transfer everything from the old lappy.


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