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As an amusing aside, it looks certain that we will break a major record tomorrow…the latest in the season that the Sea-Tac maximum temperature has not hit 75F! The record is June 9…and there is virtually no chance we will get that high tomorrow.
amusing.
i can’t live here much longer.
everybody who lives here is a wasted life.
they all convince themselves that it’s nice, but they’re just better at fooling themselves than i am. and i’ve tried.
you’re protesting, but you hear that voice in your head that tells you that seattle just sucks all the life and soul out of you.
when you travel to other places there’s so much more of a care free attitude toward life that comes with being able to wear short sleeves every so often.
but here your soul just gets sucked away as your mind becomes a sanitarium of circuitous pathways inverting reality and convincing you that your life is worth living.
it’s not.
if i still live here in five years, kill me, because i’ll already be dead inside, my soul having long since been sucked into nothingness, smothered by the vast sea of despair that is seattle.
we should have left it to canada. then maybe i’d still have a desire to live.
That’s the best way to describe it.
On second thought, given the local statistics, it really is more jump off a bridge weather.
Still, I’d prefer some light and heat at the end.
The neighbors have had some trouble with break-ins lately, so they put up this gate. It hasn’t helped much.
This is so sad.
On June 27, the exotic dancers will take one final bow. And then the Lusty Lady will close forever.
And with that Seattle loses a very colorful part of its landscape. My Baby and I are making plans to go inside for the first and last time, as our way of thanking it for all the joy and erotic days it brought us.
Now, it was an historically mild winter here, I’ll give you that. However, there’s still no excuse for, in the first few days of April, however cool they might be, me hearing questions about “what happened to spring?” from passersby and reading idiocy like this from the local press.
Ah, spring!
We went to bed last night with the slight threat of some snowflakes in Seattle and woke Friday morning to a continuing winter storm warning in the Cascades.
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What in the name of tulips and daffodils is going on?
Gasp! [Never-]snow in April? Oh my god, this is just CRAAAZY! Please, somebody, provide me with some reason and sense of perspective.
“Every once in a while we can get snow in the lowlands in April,” National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Michalski said.
Every once in a while? Can we get even more reasonable than that in this oh-so-poorly organized tripe?
Records show April snowfall is nothing new in Puget Sound.
Ah, there we go. Now, why are we writing this article again?
On April 8, 2008, the State Patrol warned students leaving on spring break vacations to prepare for winter driving conditions when crossing the passes. The day before, about three inches of snow fell on the Cascades and the weekend before avalanches on westbound lanes of Interstate 90 caused a 10-mile backup.
Snow continued until mid April of that year….
This is what it’s come to folks. People are running around screaming about the cold spring and (oh my god) never-snow in early April and two years ago we had it in mid-April. Stop. The. Presses.
Here’s the kicker, though. Here’s where everything comes full circle and I’m left screaming at the stupidity of all that surrounds me. This is the part that sums up my entire relationship between Seattlites and their relationship with weather.
April 17, 1972, saw the latest snowfall in recorded Seattle history, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists at the time said it wasn’t unusual, even though a P-I account shows the large snowflakes that fell in North Seattle made one person drive with snow tires.
Okay, there are two problems with that paragraph. First is that the ‘even though’ shouldn’t be an ‘even though’ as the sentence doesn’t even make sense with it in there. It should be something more like ‘and’. I mean, what does the commonality of never-snow in mid-April have to do with the never-snow being so severe that they put on never-snow tires?
But looking past that (and oh my god this is a horribly written article), here’s how this article goes if you haven’t been keeping track:
God I hate stupid. And this is stupid.
No matter how busy I get with baby prep (currently I’m trying to bank hours on my contract so I can take some time off and spending any extra time working on his/her welcome-to-our-home-this-is-what-you-will-like mix CD), one topic that will break my writing fast is never-snow.
You’d never-know there was never-snow this year, with our 10-to-20-degrees-above-average season, but Beckers comes through with a report of number two on the season, this time just north of the airport (which is south of the city) on I-5 and also in the suburb of Kent.
Cliff Mass, in his usual exhaustingly breathless style, reports in as well.
It has been an incredibly mild faltering. We’ve had a few wind storms, hardly any never-snow, and much warmer temperatures then normal. In fact, it was the warmest January on record in Seattle.
It’s been nice, that’s for sure, in terms of driving conditions, general comfort, and the gas bill. The cloud contained in this silver lining, though? These warm temps, while nice in January, are more typical, not of February or March, but April. Meaning I have a lot of crappy Aprils to look forward to.
The really crazy part about it, though, comes at the end of that blog post.
Today while walking through the UW campus I was surprised to see a number of the cherry trees in blossom and many daffodils in full flower.
I’m not even sure I believe it since I haven’t seen it myself. The last three years those trees haven’t reached bloom until spring break, which is the last week of March. This puts them two months ahead of schedule, which is just plain eerie. Though I have noticed some bushes blooming around here several weeks ahead of schedule. Still…two months? Might faltering end early this year? I won’t get my hopes up.
Your regularly scheduled blog will resume (shortly?).
This is probably really boring for you, but fyi there are really two things holding me back right now.
One is that the new expensive computer I bought is not behaving (a big FU to Sony). Sometimes it hangs and the task manager won’t even launch, and sometimes when it does even killing processes from the process tree doesn’t work. The second thing it likes to do to tick me off is to just turn itself off with no warning. Fwip, it’s gone. Anyway, I’m just hesitant to put anything else, like iTunes and all the other CD reviewing infrastructure, on this because I’m considering wiping it clean anyway.
The second thing keeping me from jumping back into the blogging full speed ahead is that My Baby has asked me to pick a CD (just one) that Our Baby can listen to in the womb so that it will be soothed by that CD after birth. An initial pass through my collection resulted in about 80 CDs that made the “possible” cut, so all of my listening time is going toward paring that stack down. I should have one picked out by June (that’s a joke…the kid’s due in March).
Anyway, I really should recommend eBits PC Laptop here (I used the Capitol Hill location but the same guy runs the U District location). They cleaned out the fan in my old laptop real nice, and it lasted for a few weeks before dying again, at which point they replaced the fan with a new one, charging me only for the part. And they were fast about it, too, at least the second time around. We got off to a bit of a rough start on the customer service responsiveness front, but once they realized I was a high-touch customer they became responsive. I would definitely go there again.
Oh, and if there’s a third thing keeping me from blogging it’s the complete lack of never-snow. It’s been very warm here. Last weekend it was considerably warmer here than it was in Miami. You can read about it in full-on breathless style here.
Anyway, I’ve still got lots of CDs to review, so I will be back. Thanks for hanging in there.
Clear as a bell and cold the last week-and-a-half. I love it. Feels like winter.