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Tuesday Morning Herd Check-in and Open Thread for Moosen

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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.

The important stuff to get you started:

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

– To check for replies to your comments, click the “My Comments” link in the right-hand column (or go to “My Moose”). Comments will be listed and a link to Recent Replies will be shown. (Note: Tending comments builds community)

– Ratings: Fierce means Thumbs Up, Fail means Thumbs Down, Meh means one of three things: I am unFailing you but I can’t Fierce you, I am unFiercing after a mistaken Fierce, or Meh. Just Meh.

– If you Fail someone accidentally, it is no big deal. Meesely Mentor Chris Blask on “mojo”:

“The Moose doesn’t do “mojo” in a standard fashion. Credit is earned on a more amorphous social basis than traditional blogoprofiling – more like real life.”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

Here is a great link to have open in a tab: Motley Moose Recent Comments

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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 Chris Blask on Moosing:

… the Moose is an exercise in socialization. While there is a political tilt to it and we try to talk about serious issues as much as is tolerable, an overarching goal of civility in discourse is much more the point.

Like any group of friends there are moments when things can get a bit dodgy, either because some lunkhead is crashing the party or a couple good friends butt heads, but like any healthy group we try and usually succeed to come back into balance.

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If you are a new moose (or an old moose) looking for a second chance to make a first impression, you can start right here.

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  3. DavidW

    In not so sunny South Florida. Got my car out of the shop yesterday and promised Frank a run at the park at 5am this morning. Opened the door to showers. We went anyway and got soaked. He was so happy. Kept running about 1/4 mile ahead of me, which he never does. Skipping art class tonight to attend a meeting introducing a candidate for mayor to everyone. There have been some real shenanigans at City Hall this year, and I think ALEC and the Tea Party are involved. Hope you all have a happy Tuesday!

  6. tonyahky

    It’s 54 right now. We’re under a wind advisory today, and we’re supposed to get some severe thunderstorms in this area either late tonight or early in the morning. Severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes in January! And these sorts of weather extremes are only the beginning as the effects of climate change continue to manifest themselves.  

  7. nannyboz

    Racer.  I’m appalled at the heckling of the Newtown father and saddened.  Have we really lost our way that badly?

  8. DeniseVelez

    Ice is melting from yesterday.  

    I’m in grumble mode – tenant’s furnace went kaput (more than 1K to repair) property taxes are due (more $$$) hubby’s health insurance is not covering most of his dental (grrrrrrrrrr)

    Sigh.  

    I guess I should be grateful that I can pay the bills this month – but somehow gratitude is not on my morning agenda.

    I’ll feel better after more coffee 🙂

    Good mornin’ Moosies

  9. JanF

    Senate Announces Immigration Reforms

    “We still have a long way to go but this bipartisan blueprint is a major breakthrough,” Schumer said. “We do not want immigration as a wedge issue, we want a bipartisan bill that solves the problem.”

    But then Failed-Presidential-Candidate-And-Bitter-Old-Man John McCain (R-SundayTalk) pipes in:

    Asked why he felt he had a better chance of success this time, McCain offered a blunt response.

    “Elections,” he said. “Elections. The Republican Party is losing the support of our Hispanic citizens.”

    Losing “support”? Try losing “votes”. And it is more than just immigration reform … it is the nativist tone of the Republican party. You can’t undo the rhetoric of the last few election cycles or the fallout from SB1070 in Arizona and HB 87 in Georgia.

  10. iriti

    And Moosequeteers. Also.

    52 degrees this morning, which felt weird given that yesterday’s high was 46 after an ice storm. Up in the 60s today and tomorrow, then plummeting back into the 30’s on Thursday.

    Weather whiplash. I haz it.

  11. wordsinthewind

    with a storm just coming in. We’re supposed to have howling winds today, steady at 25-30 mph with gusts up to 55-60. This is spring weather already and we’ve hardly had winter. I’ve learned to live with the wind although that ended up being the hardest adjustment to make out here.

  12. blue jersey mom

    central NJ. Yesterday’s first day of school was a total disaster. I was booked into the wrong room on the wrong day for my undergraduate class. I have to re-do my entire course outline. Sigh. The only thing that went well was the reading class that I am doing with one of our PhD students and another faculty member. We are trying to put together a reading course that includes both prehistoric and historic material from North America. My colleague is a stone tool expert who has done a lot of prehistoric work in New England. I had done a fair amount of work on historic sites (Five Points and Valley Forge), so we are trying to pull this all together as a reading course for a student who wants more background on American archaeology.  

  13. nchristine

    turn to snow by midnight and -5 by Friday morning.  I’m just glad it’s rain right now… the amount of snow and how heavy it would be if it were cold enough…. I don’t have to shovel rain.

    I’m worried about my employment.  Yesterday, I was told that there was another ‘direction change’, but no details yet and this is the 3rd or 4th direction change in 6 months.  The user seems to think we’re taking too long to convert from one database structure to another and strip out some ‘stuff’.  Never mind that it took 30+ years to get the system to where it is today, we should be able to do basically a whole rewrite in a couple of months.  I have no idea where they get that idea from?!?!?!?!  I know that we were able to convert the 45+/- codes tables (that are used to help create a claim) in a combined total of around 350 programs in 6 months.  But, that was different – reads only and field name changes, not a whole program rewrite and changing the driving database structure.

    Right now we’re about done coding the changes for this ‘phase’ and will be starting end-to-end testing in a few weeks.  So, what happens now??  I’m not betting on this job lasting much longer.  One of the pitfalls of being a contract employee.

    I do have an interview this coming Friday.  I think the job would be interesting.  It would be local and ‘permanent’.  I just hope I do really well in the interview.  But, I’m nervous/anxious about it.

  14. pittiepat

    yesterday of 76f.  Awoke about 3:45 am to the rarely heard sound of thunder and rain along with a lot of lightning.  Just looked at the radar and there is a lot of rain getting ready to move into town.  YAY!  Gonna be my kind of day.

  15. dear occupant

    just opened my back porch door,

    it’s cloudy but is it ever warm.

    feels like 60 here on the lakefront.

    good day to walk some woozles.

    carry on.

  16. BlueStateRedhead

    clouds and cold temperatures will linger through the day today.

    A warm front will approach tonight…bringing rain and possibly

    some icy conditions. Unseasonably mild and windy conditions are

    expected on Wednesday. A period of heavy showers Wednesday night…with very

    strong winds possible along the Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts coasts…ahead

    of a cold front. A return to colder weather arrives late Thursday

    and continues through the weekend.

  17. bill d

    Spring storms on the agenda today.

    HELP! Cannot post a comment or reply here since the computer guru messed with my office computer here after I left. Click comment or reply and nothing opens. Typing this

    How am I supposed to get anything done today if I can’t comment here?  :

  18. American in Bangkok

    though it’s evening here!  I won’t talk about weather, because I’d feel guilty.  

    I’ve been quiet, not sure why – I think lack of sleep has made me grouchy and I’m in hunker down mode or something!  Or maybe the letdown after a house full of family and friends has departed?

    If anyone has a good suggestion about how to manage three very loud dogs who have suddenly developed a propensity to go into barking jags at 4 am, I’m all ears!  I think it’s the neighbor’s cat outside, or perhaps a less attractive critter.  But since my neighbors complain, even if they’re inside when they bark, and my 86 yr old mother in law sleeps in the next room to where they hang out downstairs, I’m up way too often telling the silly things to hush up.

    I wish I could bottle some sunshine and send it to all of you shivering or sun deprived!  Have a great Tuesday everyone!

  19. cassandracarolina

    Stormy weather on the way, glad for the rain (“free yard water”). If there are thunderstorms as expected, my hope is that they don’t cause a power outage in the midst of this afternoon’s mammogram, leaving me with a lifelong deformity 😉

  20. LeftOverFlowerChild

    71 muggy and cloudy in my part of N. Texas. Suppose to be some strong storms to roll through. I’m kinda hoping the Weather Channel site is right and there’s only a 30% chance of rain…But then again the mountain cedar is sky high and killing me, so I’m hoping for rain, not storms, just some nice gentle rain. Alas that gentle rain thing is probably wishful thinking on my part.

    So on to today’s projects go I, hopeful that today is much better than yesterday’s melee!  

  21. SphinxMoth

    I’m new here. I’m looking for an alternative to the GOS (I’m AZ Sphinx Moth). Nice to find so many familiar handles.

    cheers

  22. slksfca

    Up at a normal hour today, thank goodness. Just waiting for my coffee to kick in for life to be complete. ;-p

  23. Avilyn

    From a comment Bill made last night:

    It has helped both of us to talk together, I think (41+ / 0-)

    And I appreciate it.

    By the way, he is still very sick but they have been able to begin to wean him off of the ventilator and he’s actually awake and knows we’re there. This is by no means over but it is an improvement. An improvement I will take and welcome with open arms.

    Thank you to everyone in the community, and especially you, Dave.

    I’ll start participating in a bit; still trying to get my eyes open and have the coffee start working.

  24. Aji

    23 degrees this morning – positively warm.  But only two degrees shy of today’s high, and the wind chill is 12.  Lotsa snow, too, which is infinitely preferable to the mud of two days ago.

    I am Teh Crabby this morning – ameliorated slightly by the hope that the three female goldfinches who showed up at our feeder yesterday (after an absence of two or three years) will return.

    Happy Tuesday to everybody. Now I need moar coffee . . . .

  25. raina

    was over on the GOS- I still read and rec diaries there occasionally, and per kos’s diary, TTFN’s are now bannable.  

  26. Lorinda Pike

    Supposed to be 78 this afternoon, and the wind is already kicking up.

    Going to hunker down to wait for the end of the world, which is scheduled to begin here shortly after midnight.

    I hate bad weather at 3AM. And this is way too early to start our spring storms.

  27. slksfca

    …with a couple of friends from Orange. We’re headed to the Beach Chalet, which (no surprise) overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It’s just down the road from the Cliff House and is nearly as historic. Plus they make good fish & chips. 🙂

  29. tonyahky

    oldest daughter’s business math teacher? She has been filling the kids’ heads full of biased, right wing talking points–basically, teaching them that “taxes are bad.” That she “hates the IRS and that she is afraid of them.” My daughter snuck a copy of one of the assignments they were given in class today home–it consists of a FOX News article titled, “California Residents, Businesses consider bailing on Golden State over taxes” that the students are supposed to read and answer questions on. It sees like an obvious ploy to indoctrinate the kids with her way of thinking, and it kind of pisses me off. Should I have her answer the questions in a way that eviscerates the teacher’s right-wing talking points? Or should I talk to her myself? This is my daughter’s last semester of high school–I don’t want her to fail because of a possibly vindictive, nutty teacher, but at the same time, this kind of blatant propaganda being pushed on the kids is simply wrong, and I feel like somebody should say something.

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