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Friday Morning Moozoog Check-in and Grazing Thread for the Herd

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If you are new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

Some notes for newbies are in a check-in from earlier in the week.

The big stuff:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones.

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(Note: Tending comments builds community)

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This is pretty darned easy to remember … the posting rules for a new diary:

Be excellent to each other… or else

From Kysen’s keyboard to your eyes:

Think of our comment threads as dinner table conversations. We start with the assumption that all come to the conversation with good intentions and go from there. If you get upset or angry, get up from the table and step outside for a bit.

For those looking for a second chance to make a first impression, that is very good advice.

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Yesterday’s Daily F Bomb (don’t forget to hover over the photos).

See you in the threads!


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  4. Khloe

    37 with steady rain through the night. A high of 50 today. Tomorrow a high of 60!!! I’m planning a cookout tomorrow.

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  10. SheltieMan

    Woke up at about 0530 and couldn’t go back to sleep. 😛 It happens now and then.

    It’s 36f here in wild, wonderful West Virginia this hour. Anticipated high of 48f with showers, but the weekend should be glorious, spring-like weather with highs in the 60’s.

    Thinking of splitting my Facebook account into the one I have now for “serious stuff” and another one “anonymøøse” one for politics, humor and weird stuff. It has been suggested that perhaps employers have found my original one via Google. Comments?

  13. iriti

    Happy Friday. Mostly cloudy and coolish but not so cold here – 38 degrees. Above freezing this morning and no frost on the windshield when I left for work which is always a treat in the winter.

    Odd, odd weather here. It has been cold, but up to the 60’s this weekend. Sunday night’s low is supposed to be 52, then Monday’s high is 52 and plummeting right back to cold again. It’s like the weekend is supposed to be a special, bike riding treat.

    trs is planning to finish a doghouse he’s building on Saturday, so I’ll have to ride alone. Sunday we’ll ride together after we tear down the gate the previous owners put across the driveway to our property (it’s never been developed except for a rudimentary driveway).

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  14. trs

    For some reason I have a Billy Idol earworm. However, it turns out the shop cat likes my singing voice while I’m in the shop getting ready to head out on my morning rounds. Have a good day, everybody.

    Happy Birthday, Bubba!

  15. wordsinthewind

    and good morning to all mooz. We’re having a warm spell before another storm blows in later today. We got about an inch and a half of rain the other day which fell slowly enough to soak into the ground and not run off. It was a good start to the year, I’m hoping we’ll come out of drought and actually get the full 14″ of average annual rain. When that’s all you get you really notice when it’s short.

  16. Lori Challinor

    it’s weirdly warm in Chicago.  Feels like spring and it shouldn’t (checking calendar).

    My very special cat Tabitha has to go for some medical tests today – please keep her in your thoughts and pray for healthy results.  She is still quite young.  

    This weekend I’m emceeing a forum entitled “Can’t make it round here anymore”.  It’s about struggling to survive in DuPage county, IL, one of the “wealthiest” areas in Illinois, or so it’s always described.  Dr. Bill Barclay is going to be our main speaker, talking about ways to heal the economy that don’t shred the social safety net and don’t increase the wealth gap.  I am hoping that such grassroots events start to grow and people start to really share information that the corporate media filter ignores.

  17. DavidW

    It’s 73 at 8am in South Florida. And good day to you all! I am off to the hematologist’s for a bloodletting this morning. (Dread these) But they do work so I will feel better right away. The labs don’t come in for two weeks but they suspect Polycythemia vera, a blood disorder. Nothing serious they say, unless it’s ignored.

  18. BlueStateRedhead

    Bluish, of course except for the regional baseball team whose socks are red and whose hearts are we don’t know as we hardly know who they are these days. They do have a new Spring Season Field, sponsored by Jet Blue, so that much is Bluish. And the landscape is sustainable, so maybe is they do well there, they can bring that doing well back North.

  19. pittiepat

    rain never really showed up yesterday.  Send warm thoughts to Nurse Kelley ’cause she’s gonna freeze her butt off this week-end.  

  20. dear occupant

    please tell me it REALLY is friday?

    i’m so ready for some extended hometime.

    it absolutely monsooned here on the lakefront lastnight so i’m happy it was warm but it’s weird warm for January..already 50’s this early in the day. seems as though we’re setting up to have another very early spring as we did last year. :-/

  21. Nurse Kelley

    It’s 25° and spitting snow on Pikes Peak. We’re going into the deep freeze tonight and won’t get out of the teens until Tuesday, with overnight temps. below zero. You’d think it was January!

  22. bubbanomics

    busy day today.  school starts next week, and my teaching load will be heavy.  To all you birthday well-wishers, I say

  23. ceriboo

    I thought I might have the flu but I actually went and looked up the symptoms and don’t have cough/sore throat/fever so it’s just a cold. A horrible, icky, nasty cold. Oh and some asshat stole my debit card number so I’m hooosband-dependent for a money ’til next week when the new card gets here. Fortunately, he watches our account very closely so they only got $6 which we’ll get back. Watch your accounts for bogus charges labelled “WU” (Western Union, presumably).

    Oh, and it’s raining, and the cats are curled up on the sofa willfully SLEEPING at me, after having woken me up at 1 a.m. because they were bored and wanted treats. I should go shake them.  :grumblegrumblegrumble:

    Hope all my mooz-like friends are having better days!

  25. remembrance

    Great math blogs on the front page, in honor of Bubba’s birthday I would think.  

    Ear pain is gone although still clogged. This is a good time to talk about remembrance cause I can’t hear you.

    Happy Friday!  

  26. Chris Blask

    today so I decided to take the John Deere Gator down onto the lake bed for the first time and do some rock gathering and cleanup. The water here goes down 40′ in winter so our little bay is completely dry. I am making a ramp for such things on our shoreline but it is not finished, so I used my neighbor’s trail where it is steep but not worse than I have made it up before.

    The chill and holiday travel had plumped me up ten pounds and I was looking forward to getting my hands dirty. I made it down the steep slope no problem, picked up various bottles and cans and other bits of detritus and a load of rock to use for various walls and steps that are part of my current landscaping projects.

    Getting back up was another issue.

    I might have made it on the first try, but thought it was getting dicey so went back to try again. Getting a bit closer to the mouth of the bay provided slightly less slope, and when that didn’t work I sort of progressed through sheer negligence to the water’s edge.

    Where the intractable Tennessee mud becomes a quagmire of saturated clay.

    So, for the next two hours I unloaded the Gator and used the rock to build stops behind the back wheels so I could lift the front end (just within physical possibility) and push it to one side. Rebuilding a rock pile behind the forwarded wheel I repeated the process, thereby in increments walking the damn thing out of the muck.

    Covered head to toe in soaking clay – more I than the vehicle – I made it back to my office and stripped on the deck just in time to have a call sitting in my undies with clay drying on my skin.

    I’m sure I will get the green monster above the waterline before the bay fills in April. But not today.

  28. Peter Jukes

    Exhausting 24 hours. In the last three days I’ve written and recorded a Radio 4 drama spinning off the Savile scandal

    The Day the Music Died

    First broadcast: Saturday 12 January 2013

    Peter Jukes’s fast-turnaround fictional drama is sparked by the publication of ‘Giving Victims a Voice’, the report into allegations of sexual abuse made against Jimmy Savile. A mother and daughter find their relationship tested by a long-buried incident from the past

    I think this is also available to US listeners on that link, tomorrow at 2pm EST, and Sunday at 3.30 pm

    And I had to file a Daily Beast Newsweek piece on the Savile report. Moneyquotes

    Jimmy Savile Report: BBC Presenter Sexually Abused More Than 200 Minors



    A former miner turned DJ and TV presenter, Jimmy Savile OBE was one of Britain’s most revered post-war pop icons. Through his dedication to charity work, he became a confidant of Prince Charles and friend of longest-serving Prime Minister of the UK, Margaret Thatcher. But Friday, following a three-month police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, the late icon’s reputation came crumbling down. The new report released Friday, co-authored by the Metropolitan Police and the child protection agency the NSPCC exposes Savile as a ‘prolific sex offender’ who preyed on hundreds of young boys and girls during his fifty-year career, exploiting the laxity and negligence of key pillars of British society in the process….

    SNIP

    Of the 450 interviews and the more than 200 sexually related crimes, many took place in health service or home office premises where Savile enjoyed special status and access, often his own rooms, and considerable administrative power. Included in the report is a map and index of the alleged locations where the sexual abuse took place. Among the more prominent locations are Britain’s premier spinal injuries unit, Stoke Mandeville, and its top high security psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor. The list also includes fourteen hospitals, fourteen assaults in schools, and even a hospice for the dying. Nearly 73 percent of his victims were children, some of them as young as 8. One of the young boys was reportedly a terminally ill patient in Great Ormond Street Hospital during the 1970s. Out of the more than 200 crimes recorded, 126 were indecent assaults, 34 rapes.

    SNIP

    Whether child abuse happened in the upper echelons of British society may be an open question, but the failure to address it certainly came right from the top.

  29. SheltieMan

    …tomorrow I’m going to have to get the lawn mower out…In January in WV.

    Mostly to mulch up some leaves that fell in the last storm, but out grass is STILL green here. There are dandelions growing. O_0

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