Happy Snowy St Patrick's Day
 

Good Morning and Happy St Patrick's Day |bananna|
Well, we went from 60 degrees a couple of days ago to more than a foot of snow last night.

Our Grandchildren are here so I will probably be scarce this weekend.

Good morning all you Irish and Irish wannabes :D

Happy and safe St Patrick Day :)

Good Morning |waves|

Beautiful sunny day here :) Got a lot of offline work for today ... cleaning the house and stuff like this :D

Hope you all have a nice day !

Good morning world |waves|

Nice cool 70F day here in the Keys, no rain or snow or floods on the schedule. Might have to visit one of the local places for some traditional Irish food and music later, since I'm one of those Black Irish bastards (with mixed Italian blood). No green beer or any of that nonsense though. (Hey Greenie, does Red Bull make a green version for today?)

A great Saturday to all.

:)

Good morning/afternoon to you all

No real plans for today and I doubt I'll be drinking anything green but marijuana is green. |potleaf|

good morning everyone |waves|

got up early today, going to get my lazy kids up and get some groceries so I can get everything offline out of the way at a decent time today.

the only thing St. Paddy's day means to me is that I've got to figure out what the next decoration on the calendar is lol.

you know Cleo you've got a point there, now I feel more festive :D

anyway, top of the mornin to ya (or whatever it is I'm supposed to say)
|potleaf|

Good Morning.

Snow here too after a few days of nice warm weather. :(

Everyone has snow..... what is wrong with the world

Living in the middle of the Alps and we had almost nothing down here at my place...

Good Morning and Happy St Patty's Day All :)

Happy Saturday Everyone.. the warm weather turned into freezing weather then overnight we were hit with piles of snow. Time to get out there and play with the snowblower.

Have a great day!

Good moning all |waves|

Happy St Patrick Day to ya!

Top-O-The Mornin' to ya'll,

Daily reviews and updates are done, got all the trash out in plenty of time (missed wed. pickup). Gotta make a run by the bank before noon, and a quick stop at the grocery store while I'm out. Not much else on the agenda, will probably watch the Busch guys go fast and turn left in Atlanta.

|coffee is on, help yourself...

Happy St. Patty's day everyone,

I'm going to a green party tonight. I don't know why they're giving it in this town since the closest thing to something Irish here is some guy from a few streets away that has actually been in Ireland once and a the bottle of whisky in the bar. I guess it's all about the booze, again.

Have a nice day all.

Good morning - cleaning up the house and getting ready for another day of too much of everything |bananna|

Good morning world!

Now that I'm partly recovered from this damn plague, I need to drag my sorry ass back to life, or at least out of bed. I feel like Rip Van Winkle here.

Erin Go Bear!! LMAO.. 5 more days for me to give up my weekends..then i can get back to my REAL life.. hanging out at OTB.. |headbang|


Liar!! I have no snow!! :D

89 degrees here today.. fucking global warming.

~~insert boring daily grind drivel here~~

Good morning. Lost power at the house last night for a few hours and now all of the clocks and timers are screwed up. The alarm clock with the battery backup is always fast when it comes online -- yet, GE and their infinite wisdom only provides a way to advance the clock, either fast or slow. Cycle through 23 hours and 48 minutes to move the clock back 12 minutes, or, add a 'reverse' button to the clock functions. Electrical tape already covers the VCR clock so that the blinking 12:00 doesn't annoy the wife. I am not sure why so many devices need to have clocks.

Why does the microwave need to know what time it is? It has no setting to start cooking something at a certain time. You can program it to 'power 0' for 15 minutes then cook for 3, but, there are no provisions for setting it to turn on at 6am unless you figure out the countdown time.

The oven has a clock as well -- and it doesn't even have a timer. Just temperature settings and whether it is bake, broil or char. And, the oven and microwave are never exactly the same, 8:45 on one, 8:46 on the other for 20 seconds or so until the other catches up. I often wonder if they think it is a race and pass each other -- just to keep us on our toes.

The VCR has a clock, which I can understand if you are setting to record shows at particular times. But, does anyone use their VCR as an accurate clock source? If you set it to record starting at 8pm, you miss the first minute of the show anyhow. To record a 1 hour show, even with the VCR clock synced to the cable company's clock source, I had to set it to start 2 minutes ahead and end 2 minutes late. Similar with satellite -- our receiver keeps a clock, but, by the time the receiver switches to the other program, you've already missed the first 30 seconds.

Then there's the desk clock, the watch, the clock on the desktop on the computer. None ever agree on the time, only one is accurate.

How many clocks are required for one to establish a sense of self? I would bet that we have 25 timekeeping devices in the house, of which 4 are accurate to the minute, 2 are accurate to the second. And how many devices that have clocks really need them?

Then there's my watch... a Seiko Perpetual Calendar. I'm not much of a watch person, but, a few years ago I figured, I should buy something that costs more than $20 to keep time. (style decisions influenced by spousal unit as I think she disliked the $20 timex -- which kept very accurate time). The reason they call it a Perpetual Calender is that the date is perpetually set at 11. Its been back for warranty repair 4 times, each time, Seiko sets it to a different date that corresponds to the last service date. Perhaps some reminder so I know that I last had it repaired on the 11th.

I like the watch, but, I still need to look at my computer to determine the date. Though, it is right once a month. I have to remember to avoid getting it serviced on the 30th or 31st of the month or it would probably throw off my schedule completely. The 29th would be ok, because I could then have the right date 45 times during a 4 year period.

Ugh, its late... long day ahead rewriting a 26 page requirements document into a more concise, more feature packed 2 page request to a programmer that is doing some work for us.

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!

Happy St. Patrick's day everyone. I'm about 1/4th Irish, and used to party like mad this day, but I'll settle for the cold feeling better, lol.

emmanuelle, I can relate. At least I got a good nights sleep and that makes the cold symptoms feel less annoying when I'm not fighting sleep depravation.

Here is my favorite Irish blessing for all of you. My Grandmother used to have this hanging on her wall.

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
And, until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Have a good day all.

Happy St. Patrick’s day all… |greenguy| |potleaf| |pimpin |raygun| |frankie |tddance|

I had a slightly different version of that blessing taught to me as a child:

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
And may you be half an hour in heaven,
Before the Devil knows you're dead.


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(and I can tell how much someone wants to rewrite a 26-page requirements document by the length of his morning thread post.)

I'll be foing to the local home-away-from-home after OTB for a few cold green beers, but only for an hour or two. Lots of work to do today since I took most of yesterday off and I'll be hanging out with my dear old Dad tomorrow. We haven't got together in a while so we'll likely end up at the local again ;)
Golf Leafs Golf (sigh)