Conference back40::soapbox

    
    	It's almost *too* hot out there today!
    
    

    Absolutely effing gorgeous. Was positively painful to come back inside.

 'twas nice out there...

    
    
    	Agreed!  I went outside and sat on the front lawn of ZKO3.
    	Put my coat up against a rock, leaned against it and read
    	for class tonite.  Stopped at one point to lean my head back
    	and FINALLY feel that beautiful warm sun on my face.
    	
    	AAAAaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
    
    	JJ
    

    I think the first perfectly warm spring day should be
    a national holiday.  Gosh it's gorgeous out there!
    

    So, you taped this and you're going to play it back for the class?
    
    That's very nice. What a nice thing to do!

    well, it's pi**ing down rain here in Toronto =B-(

    
    	Consider yourself lucky that it isn't raining down p***.
    

    It may have been nice at lunch (58 F and the sun even came out), but
    spring is not yet here.  It's too early to open up this topic, I say. 
    We're not supposed to get a hard freeze during Springtime.  Highs in
    Springtime are not supposed to be limited to the 30's; no, that is
    WINTER IMO.  In Springtime, you do not have wind-chills below 0 (low of
    22, aggrivated by 35 MPH winds).
    
    Therefore, logically, it is still WINTER, even though the calendar may
    show something else.  You won't see me back in this topic again until
    SPRING actually arrives.  It is my way of protesting such dreadful
    weather during this so-called Spring thaw.
    
    Please note that the scorecard in Ohio shows the following (in my
    area):
    
    "Spring", day 1: 8" of snow, windy
              day 2: more snow, colder, more wind
              day 3: cold, windy
              day 4: not quite as cold, but still windy
              day 5: first Spring-like day...a tease
              day 6: warm and wet in the AM, gale-force winds, hard freeze 
                     overnight with windchill below 0
    	      day 7: projected high of 38
    	      day 8: projected high of 45 
    
    No, we won't see anything resembling spring until the weekend (other
    than a nice, but very windy, day yesterday), and that is likely to
    change- in fact, I'm willing to bet on it.
    
    My conclusion:  Even though the calendar may point to it being Spring,
    it is not.  We are being taunted; a cruel trick is being played on us by 
    old man winter and his near-sighted rodent side-kick.  Spring won't
    start for another week or so.    

    
    	You're in denial, Steve.
    
    	It doesn't have to be a comfortable Spring, but it is Spring
    	nonetheless.
    

 Spring arrived on the 20th.  It is here.  Get used to it.





 Jim

   oh goodie.  a new season that 'boxers can whine about incessantly.
   

    
    	No, no, no!!
    
    	This topic is not for whining, it's for CELEBRATING!!!
    
    	

    Yeah, there's already a topic for wine somewhere else...
    

    
      Spring, and a young man's fancy turns to...
    
      bb

    
    <--- baseball?

    
    actually, it's very windy in chitown today, 50 mph is the norm. I do
    howsomever, look forward to days in the 50's and 60's, which should
    be here soon. Yes, it is looking up.

    thoughts of love?
    
    jello?

    
    whipcream?

    
    those thoughts most definitely golf...
    
    
    

    Spring arrived the Friday before St. Patrick's day.  On that day, I put
    on my spring jacket and walked down Mass Ave from Arlington Heights
    to Berkely, then over to the Common.  (Armed with a semi-automatic
    umbrella.)
    
    It doesn't matter if it gets below freezing again.  My winter coat is
    away.
    
    Afternoon light, unexpected flowers, (this is the third spring in our
    old house, and we still are surprised at where people planted in years
    gone by), after dinner walks to the center and back, near bursting buds
    on trees.
    
    
    Other than summer, fall and winter, this is my favorite season.
    
    								-mr. bill

    >  Spring, and a young man's fancy turns to...
    
     young women

<---not for everyone...tap tap tap...:-)

    
    <--- oh, you prefer girls, Glen?

    I've got a bad feeling about this.

    spring...and my thoughts turn to light.  i crave light.

    
       I love my box-spring mattresss...
    
       Duh, whoops! We're talking bout the weather.

    
    well Roseie, mattresses, spring, what's the difference, both make you
    feel good.

"And did those feet
In ancient times..."

Spring?  It's still foggy, wet, windy and freezing cold here.  Although the 
sun made an appearence for � an hour at lunchtime.

Chris.

         Spring?!? There's a blizzard going on outside right now. I saw
    three accidents on my way to work. It's less than twenty degrees out,
    and the snow is starting to freeze on the roads. Lord help me when I
    have to drive home at midnight, since I live right across the street from
    Pike's Peak. I gain more than fifteen hundred feet in elevation in less
    than four miles. Highway 24 is the highway of death in a blizzard,
    especially at night.

    > "And did those feet
    > In ancient times..."
    
     Walk upon England's ?ancient shores?

    ...mountains green?
    And was the holy lamb of God,
    In England's pleasant pastures seen.
    
    Sang it recently in a packed Welsh church.  One of my faves, even if
    it implies that God smiles on the Saesneg. 

    re .-1
    
    yep. Emerson Lake & Palmer put that to song (or stole it mebbe);
    
    good tune. see ya in Music thread.

        And did those feet in ancient time
        Walk upon England's mountains green?
        And was the holy Lamb of God
        On England's pleasant pastures seen?
        And did the countenance divine
        Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
        And was Jerusalem builded here
        Among those dark satanic mills?

        Bring me my bow of burning gold!
        Bring me my arrows of desire!
        Bring me my spear!
        O clouds, unfold!
        Bring me my chariot of fire!
        I will not cease from mental fight,
        Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
        Till we have built Jerusalem
        In England's green and pleasant land.

                                -- William Blake (1757-1827)

Half of the pond behind MKO01 is ice free.  Yesterday it was mostly covered
with ice,  with only a bit of water poking out around the edges.


Phil

    Ahh...for the days of summer when the ice is in your drink and not on
    the lake.   If Spring is here, Summer isn't far behind.

Hint: my mention of "Did those feet..." referred to mattresses.

    The comfydown majorette?
    
    OK, Untie Mr. Pasloe.
    

    
    
    	I'm just waitin' to walk by the big window near my office
    	in ZKO3 (ground level) and see a 'red red robin, bob bob 
    	bobbing along'.  I was very psyched last year, I'll be
    	*extremely* psyched this year when he/she appears.
    

    it's still a little magical to see your first one of the year!

    Saw my first male cardinal of the year at the feeder sunday am.

what was bernard law doing at your house?

Weather was crap again today.  Still no signs of spring.  Oops, I forgot, the 
weather's always crap here, until we're all lulled into a false sense of 
security, then we get a drought.

Chris.

    
    re: .42
    
    >Saw my first male cardinal of the year at the feeder sunday am.
    
    Had them all winter at my place...
    
    BTW.. I do realize you just moved into your new place recently and
    that you probably started feeding them late in the season. It's good to
    see them ranging a bit..
    

I thought all cardinals are male.

>I thought all cardinals are male.

I thought that they were neuter, being a class of data storage in modula-2 
(how I can remember a language that I avoided using 10 years ago in college 
I'll never know...)

Chris.

They'd best not join Catholics for Action.

    At least not in Nebraska
    
    

The Cardinals are in Missouri.

    
      Nope, Arizona.
    
      bb

    
    .46
    
    They are also appointed by the Pope.

    maybe that is why we have no feathered cardinals in CO?
    
    

    re: .40
    
    He's here :-)  I saw him at the entrance to ZK3 on my way back
    from lunch. 
    

    
    
    	Cool!  I shall have to keep my eyes open for him.  I saw
    	a morning dove this morning but no robin.
    

    .46
    
    > I thought all cardinals are male.
    
    Not by canon law, they're not.

  .55 mourning dove

    
    
    A bunch of red-winged black birds out by the bird feeders. It's amazing
    to see the transformation in a just a few short weeks from a
    dull, orange-yellow to a blazing red-orange on the wings...
    

When Tom Parmenter was a reporter in Chicago, a mobster was arrested for
shooting mourning doves out of season.  Tom wrote a story in which he
called him <mumble> "Doves" <mumble>.  The name stuck.

    
    
    	Thanks Di.  I was tempted to go back and change it
    	to 'mourning' but didn't.
    

    
    Joey "Doves" Aiuppa  nnttm

    
    
    Winter's back...
    
    
    
    Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
    

    <--- Winter never left...as I've already said.
    
    Oops.  I'm not supposed to be in this topic, I'm boycotting it until
    Spring actually arrives (should be here in another week).  

Andy,  notice the pond is 99% ice free.  Hardly winter.


Phil

 Our pond(s) are 100% ice free.

    
    re: .64
    
    I noticed that Phil... thanks.
    
     It was more a comment on this morning's icy blast...
    

    
    poor babies

    
    	'twas a wee bit on the brisk side this morning yes.  I'd
    	like Monday's weather back please.  =)
    

    chilly, but sunny.  lots o' light!

    You know, Bonnie, that's what I like about the coming of Spring also. 
    Lighter in the morning and lighter in the evening.  Natural light beats
    artificial everyday.

    
    
    Speaking of light.... the clocks change when? Next Sunday???
    

        Natural Light. Bluuuurgh! What a horrible beer.

    |the clocks change when? Next Sunday???
    
    next sunday?  oh, this is good news!
    

 The change to Daylight Savings Time happens the first weekend in April.




 Jim

| <<< Note 690.74 by CSLALL::HENDERSON "We shall behold Him!" >>>

| The change to Daylight Savings Time happens the first weekend in April.

	JIM!!!!!!

 ?

    jim, would you be wearing socks with sandals?

	Look at the last 2 words of what Jim wrote....

 No, I do NOT wear socks with sandals..





 Jim

    Socks with sandals are okay as long as they are the proper type of
    socks.  Ragg wool socks with Tevas of Birkenstocks are approporiate. 
    Black dress socks with leather sandals or mesh shoes are not.  Hth.

    be different, put on sandals. THEN put on socks.
    
    

    
    	RE: Glen/Jim
    
    	And what a lovely weekend that would be.
    

    
    
    	YES!  (even though it's cold today)
    
    	Not one, not two, but THREE  red robins are bobbin' along
    	outside the windows here in ZK3-2...........
    
    	Couple of them ate very well over the winter.  =)
    

    Say huh?  8)

    
    
    	re:  'pril
    
    
    	They're fat little robins (ie: they must have eaten well
    	while down south)
    

    they're more healthier than last year, fer sure.

    JJ, thanks for explaining that to me.  ;)

They're prolly not vegetarians.

    >Winter's back...
    >Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
    
     Wimp. Didn't stop us from playing b-ball for the third consecutive
    day.

    
    re: .90
    
    >Wimp.
    
    Got that right!!!  I hate it when I have to take almost 10-15 minutes
    to warm up and stretch outside!
    
     I'd rather have the high humidity/high temps. in the summer and just a
    quick stretch will do it before I run or whatever...
    

    so can I start wearing my white pumps again or it still too early?

    
    	Don't let Deb catch you wearing them until 5/27!!
    

    
    	But can it be outforced?
    

    I don't think that can be enforced in Canada under international law.

    
    	Glenn, you cheat.  Binder's taught you well.
    

    
    I'll be glad to deliver a swift kick in the butt for free to anyone
    caught wearing white shoes before Memorial Day this year.
    
    No, nnttm, really.
    

I certainly hope that doesn't apply to my year-round white sneakers.

Does this mean you won't be wearing white, fake-leather, wet-look, thigh boots 
Jack?

Jes.

    
    Sneakers are ok, as are any shoes meant as part of a costume or uniform.  
    This includes nurse/doctor shoes, bridal shoes, etc.
    

    Sneakers are NEVER ok!!!
    
    They are the worst!

Deb, there _is_ no Memorial Day in Canada (at least not on the last Monday
in May).

    I was kidding.... I would never consider wearing white shoes before
    "Victoria Day"  (May 20)
    
    Speaking of which... I think that day is kind of funny.  I always
    thought it was in celebration of Queen Victoria's birthday.  Then, I
    moved to Australia for a year and found out that they celebrate Queen
    Victoria's birthday in (March, I think).  I was also in New Zealand,
    and they celebrate it on another day!  Isn't that weird?  You would
    think that all the Commonwealth countries would celebrate on the same
    day, wouldn't you?  

    Sincewhen does one have to get Miss Deb's permission when to where,
    what to where and why to where it?
    
    :-)

    
    You forgot where to where it 8^).
    

	Deb, does that mean I should keep the white pumps away for a while
longer?

    
    <frown>
    

	Should they have heels?

    
    A small heel, at least, or I'd be wont to call them flats.
    

| <<< Note 690.110 by POWDML::HANGGELI "Little Chamber of Full Body Frisks" >>>


| A small heel, at least, 

	Ok...I'll buy new ones... :-)

| or I'd be wont to call them flats.

	You wont? :-)

    
    re: .90
    
    >Wimp. Didn't stop us from playing b-ball for the third consecutive
    >day.
    
    I was thinking about this on the way home last night, and.. maybe this
    is the reason your knees is bothering you... Or maybe it's just because
    your getting old?
    

    
    
    BTW...
    
    Anybody got a pair of white shoes (non-costume, non-sneaker, regular
    dress shoes types) I can borrow for Saturday night????
    
    
    Size 9, mens
    

    > Anybody got a pair of white shoes (non-costume, non-sneaker,
    > regular...
    
    I can do ya a pair of 9.5C white (not bucs, thank ya) only worn once; at a
    ceremony in which I stood in front of dozens of folks and said in a
    firm (but quavery) voice:
    
    	"I Do!"
    
    
    	and 6 years later found out that she DIDN'T.
    
    
    
    	

    
    
    re: .114
    
    That should do just fine... as I'll probably be wearing them in and
    around my throat 30 seconds after I show up someplace on Saturday
    night...

    re .-1
    
    where ya want me to send 'em?
    
    

    
    > where ya want me to send 'em?
    
    
    Seems you might've got some directions in your e-mail? If not, I'll be
    glad to forward them over. Probably on the lawn, in a plain, brown
    wrapper will do fine...
    

    > Probably on the lawn, in a plain, brown wrapper will do fine...
    
    that's how a lot of my mail appears too...

    Don't put the boots and shovels away yet, folks. The rumor floating
    around is 1-3 of the white crap, er, I mean stuff tonight. The temp
    needs to drop a few more for that, though.
    
    							lunchbox

         I never get to put the shovel away. Last year I was shovelling out
    my driveway at the end of May, and I saw snow on the fourth of July.
    Another storm front is closing in right now - should hit about Sunday. 

	Now I heard on the radio it was going south of us. So we might just get
a couple of flakes.

         April is definitely the worst month for snowfall. Hopefully the
    snow demons will be merciful this year.

    Remember that Easter claymation thing where they had the sun-god and
    the winter-god and the sun god sang:
    
    I'm Mister Heat Miser
    I'm  Mister Sun 
    I'm Mister hundred and one
    
    Anyway, it was a cool show and it was yanked because people complained
    that the Heat Miser represented Satan.

         You're a strange guy, lunchbox. It's good to see you back. 

    spring remains in Ma. maybe a dusting for us (central). i thought i'd
    go to my grave before i'd see a meteorologist err the wrong way.

    Well... it must be here, I guess..
    
    I saw a Blue Heron this morning on the way in to work...
    

    Where does he work? Did he walk to work, or did he carry a lunch?

 Agagagag


 I saw a few robins as I entered the parking lot here this morning.




Jim

    
    He was flying SSW from my location... just about the route to ZKO, in
    fact...
    

 So, he was on a business trip?

    
    Well... I understand ZKO is loaded with geeks and flakes, so it
    might've been to just take in the sights...
    

He apparently must have had overhead materials with him as well.

    
    	RE: .123
    
    	Horrible, Lunchbox.  That was a Christmas special ... "The
    	Year Without a Santa Claus".
    

    magpies are building their "staging" nests just outside the building
    this spring.  These nests seldom are used, but apparently magpie males
    build them to show off their contruction prowess.
    
    The @^*&ing flicker male in the neighborhood is using the top of my
    metal chimney for the stove as an amplifier.  Sounds like I have a
    jackhammer on my roof.
    
    meg

    
    
    meg,
    
     An article I read states that they usually cease and/or move on after
    about 2 weeks or so...
    
    
    

    Was it a Christmas show? It's been off for quite a few years, so I
    can't remember too much, just that song, and the fact that the heroes
    needed the cooperation of the elements to come through for the holiday.
    thanx for the correction, though!!
    
    						lunchbox

    
    	I have it on video, so I can watch it whenever I want.  I just
    	hope that repeated viewings don't wreak havoc with an impress-
    	ionable guy like me.
    
    	It is a great movie/cartoon.
    

    I know the flickers will move on, but this part of the season is
    murder.  The little bastiche starts at dawn, which is sheer hell after
    a late night of mass consumption.  My bedroom opens on to the room with
    the wood stove in it.  
    
    meg

    
    
    Oy!!!  :)
    
    If it makes you feel any better, he's doing it on the aluminum because
    it's a better amplifier than wood, and he figures the more females that
    hear him, the better. Little critters ain't as dumb as we look!
    
    

    Put up a plastic owl before you go to bed. :-)

    I thot a fisher was  A TYPE OF BIRD...maybe I'm thinking about
    finches...

    A kingfisher is a bird. A fisher, aka fisher cat is the largest member
    of the weasel family.

    .141
    
    A kingfisher is a bird.  Kingfish was a character on Amos 'n' Andy. 
    Does that about cover it?
    
    /hth

Actually, a wolverine is larger, Doc.

    But it's not a weasel, is it?

    .146
    
    Yes.  So is a skunk, whihc also has that heavier body shape.

    
    	You mean, when compared to a lighter body shape [triangular],
    	or a medium body shape [pentagonal]?
    

    > If it makes you feel any better, he's doing it on the aluminum
    > because it's a better amplifier than wood, and he figures the more females
    > that hear him, the better. Little critters ain't as dumb as we look!
                                                                             
    ya know, I tried this in a bar once (knocked on the wooden bar
    surface). I didn't attract anything but stares...

    
    
    Shoulda used something other than your head...
    

    
    wolverines are bad a** things to mess with. mean as a junk yard dog,
    and virtually afraid of nothing, not even a bear.

    Meaner than a junk yard dog.
    
    /hth

 Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

    
    .153
    
    it did Dick, immensely.

    Well, Mark, there hasn't been a junkyard dog born that could stand up
    to a wolverine.  Unless the wolverine was sick or something.  They've
    been known to chew their way out of steel cages.

| <<< Note 690.145 by MOLAR::DELBALSO "I (spade) my (dogface)" >>>

| Actually, a wolverine is larger, Doc.

	With these claws that he can have spring out when he wants. Dangerous
guy. Got a mean temper....oh, you're not talking about the X-Men?

    I've just done a Cryptogram that I think fits in here very well.
    
    "The principal function of March is to use up the winter that would not
    fit into February"
    
    
    joan

    congrats on your cryptogram.
    
    how much does it weigh?

         re.156
           
         Try watching the Discovery Channel sometime this weekend. They
    have a wild discovery program featuring wolverines and related
    creatures.

    re.160
    
    That would be "Fangs", Ed. The show features predatory animals
    exclusively. Actually, they show a lot of animals on the lower end of
    the food chain, but they are usually being ripped apart by the predator
    of the week.
    
    

    It looks like Mother Nature is mad at us for some reason.
    To-day we had a lot of rain.
    
    
    Other areas were not so lucky.
    
    They had golf ball sized hail southwest of where I live, tornado's
    northwest of here and the Red River is overflowing it's banks out west
    again.
    
    Is there anything we can do to please her.
    
    joan

    Tornado season is here.

    
    
    	speaking of tornados...anyone seen the movie "Twister" yet? Looks
    positively frightening. I can't imagine anything more humbling than
    staring out your kitchen window and seeing one of those things headings
    towards you. Sends chills up my spine.
    
    	jim
                   

    I watched one go over my house once...very loud, they are.

    
    	I cleaned up after one when I was a boy scout. '83 I think? One
    scout was killed when a tree fell on his tent. Nasty damage.
    
    jim

    
    we had 45 tornado's on Saturday in downstate Illinois. Turned one house
    almost upside down. Nasty buggers. Tons of damage to a lot of
    subdivisions.

    The first beautiful day of the year yesterday!!!

    AAAAAAAAAAhhhaaaaaaaa.....

    
    	"Twister" comes out in 2-3 weeks.
    

 I don't know weather or not I'll see that one..

    
    
    	re: twister
    
    	wow...I thought that was already out. 
    
    
    

    
                               Twister (1996)

                                   1996

Produced by: constant c / Amblin Entertainment / Universal Pictures [aka
MCA/Universal Pictures] / Warner Brothers
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Stereo Digital / SDDS
Genre(s)/keyword(s): disaster

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Directed by
     Jan De Bont

Cast (in alphabetical order)
     Abraham Benrubi
     Cary Elwes
     Jami Gertz
     Helen Hunt
     Bill Paxton
     Nicholas Sadler .... Kubrick

Written by
     Michael Crichton

Cinematography by
     Don Burgess
     Jack N. Green

Music by
     Mark Mancina

Costume Design by
     Ellen Mirojnick

Produced by
     Michael Crichton
     Jerry Molen (executive)

Other crew
     Stephen Campanelli (camera operator)

    
    
    	What a positively gorgeous weekend we had.  Of course my
    	body still hasn't forgiven me for the abuse I put it through
    	on Saturday doing yard work.....
    
    

	Andy makes you do the yardwork????

    It has rained for the last two day's and it was trying to snow when I
    was walking home to-night, according to the forcast we are going to get
    more, cool, wet days, at least until the week-end.
    The only way I have been able to look at the crocus and violet flowers
    in the back yard, is through field glasses.
    
    The golf course down the road have a sign up saying they will open this
    week, I do hope they move the family of ducks who are swimming in the sand 
    trap by the sixth hole first.
    
    
    joan

    <---- Of course it is Spring, haven't you checked your calendar?  This
    is why I scraped frost off my windshield this morning, and why I'm
    wearing a coat.
    
    Gotta love Spring, don'tcha?  8^)

    I woke up to snow this morning. About 1 cm. Spring is being very cruel.

    
    
    	It was cooler here this morning but it's sunny and should
    	be in the mid 60's....
    

    
    	I'm wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
    

    i'm wearing birkins.

	I'm wearing a bikini!

    last week, it was nothing atoll.

well eye yam at work today

Glen's wearing a bikini as protective clothing.  He's on site at a nukular
test site, and it protects him from radiation.  HTH.

    
    	Did you know that "aye yam" is "may eye" backwards?
    

    he is an itty-bitty-teeny-weiner fellow in a hot bikini?
    
    

    
    	That he wore for the fist time today?
    

    ?a banana hammock?
    
    =8$

	Marble sack

 get back Jack

    Since it is now Spring, I decided to leave my upstairs windows open last 
    night to air out the house (and it was warm upstairs).  Turns out that this
    was not such a wonderful idea...it was a might nippy when I woke up at
    5 this morning (I HATE waking up before the alarm goes off), especially
    since I had a fan running in my room.  
    
    Luckily, I did not leave them wide open, but only cracked (though there
    was a rather brisk wind last night, so plenty of air was circulating).
    
    I am still anxiously awaiting true Springdom to arrive.  It is very shy
    this year.  Tonight, the low is going to dip down even cooler than it
    did last night- down near FREEZING.  ICK!  Enough's enough already.
    
    It has been a really weird year for weather.
    
    
    -steve

    
      Well, it's over.  Today is the first day of summer.
    
      Break out the soda and pretzels and beer, as Sammy put it.
    
      bb

i believe it's at 10:00pm. certainly a time of day when sodas would
be recognized as inappropriate.

> Today is the first day of summer.
    
    Groan.  I hate summer.  Hot; sticky; heavy hard-to-breathe air;
    oppressive; horrendous creatures with six, eight, or more legs
    running or flying around, some with painful stingers; creatures
    emerging from the woods digging holes in my yard for me to step
    in and twist my ankle; bike riders and joggers for me to dodge;
    grass to mow, a pointless activity if there ever was one (at
    least snow shoveling has a practical purpose); sunburns...
    
    I'll think of more later, no doubt.  Hey, I had to listen to all
    of you gripe about last winter for the eight or nine months that
    it lasted, so fair's fair.
    
    Chris

    Chris- is there anything that you DO like?

Nay, nay - summertime is great. The swimming pool is a source of refuge
from all of the evils you raised, Chris.

    .194
    
    > i believe it's at 10:00pm. certainly a time of day when sodas would
    > be recognized as inappropriate.
    
    That's soda, not sodas, and if you put scotch in soda it is quite
    appropriate for consumption at that hour.

    
    How can one defile good scotch with additives such as ice and soda?
    

    WOO HOO!  Summertime!  Hot sizzling pavement, cold beers, warm breezes,
    boat drinks, sailboat crashing, er, racing, pounding through the woods
    on a mountain bike, touring on a morotcycle, sunroof open, late night
    spins to the ice cream stand, fireworks, prime bar-b-cue season, tan lines 
    and Tevas.  I have been waiting long for this time to emerge and vow to 
    immerse myself, nay, drink the season in in large gasping gulps of that
    oppressively hot and humid air.  Be gone demon snow flakes!  
    
    Brian 

    my sentiments eggzackly!!!!

    .200
    
    Where did you see the phrase "good scotch" in my remarks concerning
    soda?  Or even "good," for that matter?

    
    I saw a huge pile of snow along 62 yesterday on my way to lunch.
    
    
    
    Luckily it was outside the ice rink.
    

Wail, all I know is that there was a bunch of belly aching in here about
the winter so I'm happy fer all y'all that the sun might actually come
out and shine enough to work up a decent tan.

    > Chris- is there anything that you DO like?
    
    What, about summer?  Nope, can't wait for it to be over.
    
    What, in general?  Sure, I like most things, actually, but it's
    more fun to talk about what we don't like, especially in here.
    Here are some things that I especially like: (Maestro, music,
    please)
    
    Kids
    Most people
    Baseball
    Soccer
    Beatles
    Jazz
    Guitars
    Jazz with Guitars
    Old TV shows (esp. sci-fi, sitcoms, and game shows)
    Most things about the 50's and 60's
    Computer stuff, sometimes
    Exercising (har :-))
    Spicy food
    Low humor and other seedy underbelly-of-life stuff
    Our new minivan which I hardly ever get to drive
    
    Chris

    Summertime. I love the smell of summertime. Everything's growing.
    Windows are open- fresh air. It's time for the beach- beach volleyball,
    brewskis, the various eye-watering sights. Fishing. Rollerblading.
    Gardening. Prime grilling time. Warmth. Sun. Long days with plenty of
    daylight. People are actually outside as opposed to being holed up in
    their houses. Basketball. Frisbee. 

    > the various eye-watering sights.
    
    ho ho!
    
    DougO

    
    {snicker}
    

    ... and Bumblebee Tuna!

    >              -< visiting sunny california anytime soon? >-
    
     Not likely, but I'll let you know. ;-)

    
    
    Seems we had some time to have a snow-ball fight up in Alaska whilst
    traversing the high country...
    

    For once we had a decent spring.  Though, in order to delay the hot and
    humid weather that normally approaches nary a millisecond after winter
    is over, we had to put up with gargantuan rainfalls.  
    
    Of course, all this water has added a bit of ambiance to the upcoming
    summer...in the way of mosquitos and humidity.  Oh, these things are a
    normal part of summer in these parts, but they are likely to be
    displayed in epic proportions for most the summer.  The other day, it
    was a mere 85 F, yet I managed to break into a hideous sweat in just a
    few seconds.  Very pleasant, that.  Nothing like a humidity in excess
    of 90% in the boiling sun.
    
    In any case, since I whined so much about our 7 month long winter, you
    will not hear a peep of whining (at least not obvious whining  8^) )
    about the upcoming hot and humidness of summer (actually, it started a
    few days ago).
    
    Tomorrow we hit the 90's for the second time this week, which will be
    accompanied by a high moisture content in the air.  O joy.  But I can
    honestly say that after such a long and nasty winter, it is a large
    improvement.
    
    At least we had a record long spring season here.  We had about 3 weeks
    of spring-like weather (though it was raining 95% of the time), of
    temperatures in the 70's in the day and upper 50's at night.  We are
    not likely to see a span of nice temperatures this long for another 100
    years or so.
    
    
    -steve

    never would i set foot in ohio.

    
    Re .201
    
    I agree except for the 'tan lines and Tevas'. Keep the 90+ degree days
    coming for the next 3 months. I will never complain about the hot
    weather.
    
    ej
    

    
    
>      Break out the soda and pretzels and beer, as Sammy put it.
    
 

      I think you meant Nat King Cole..




 Jim

Nat King Cole was a merry Old Soul?


\C

summer rulz!

as for scotch... blended gets what it deserves and needs in the way
additives. malted should be left pure and delightful.