as the xmas song says... let it snow

here we go and some say it's early...
got my snowblower all ready and am getting gas in the morning.

By Erin Place
The Palladium-Times
Mon Nov 17, 2008, 09:36 PM EST

Oswego, N.Y. -
Although winter does not officially begin until Dec. 21 by the lunar calendar, old man winter has already blown through the Port City of Oswego.
According to local weather observer Bill Gregway, the city of Oswego received roughly four inches of snow in the period stretching from around 8:30 p.m., Sunday, to 7 a.m., Monday. “It was pretty heavy, wet snow,” he said, noting that the season’s first snow was full of water.

People forgot how to drive, again....
According to the Oswego County 911 center, there were a total of 40 property damage accidents as of late Monday afternoon. There were also 11 accidents involving injuries or possible injuries resulting from the snowfall.

Gregway gave a brief timeline of events that kicked off the Port City’s winter season. Around 6 p.m. Sunday it began to rain. Right before 8:30 p.m., the winds shifted and some ice and snow pellets began to mix in with the rain. “At 8:35 p.m. to be exact, we had a flash of lightning and thunder and with that came the snow,” he said.
Throughout Sunday evening into early Monday morning, there were four occurrences of heavier snow bursts called thunder snow, the weather observer said. The thunder snow struck at 8:55 p.m., 12:05 a.m., 12:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.
“It’s caused by the lake effect clouds when they are generally quite lower to the surface,” Gregway explained. “They create static electricity and give off lightning. That usually ushers in a heavier snow burst.”
The snow that Oswego received was lake effect and it lasted until about 7 a.m., Monday. According to Gregway, the winds shifted again early Monday, pushing the band to head south near Syracuse. He noted that the snow and winds were not as heavy after the band moved away from Oswego County.

2 new friends.....

Well, I figured it out, I think, after a while and now I have 2 new friends, whether they know it or not. A couple of gals, 1/2 my age that are buddies as well as bloggers. Some people would call that stalking..... but then again, they may not even know I linked them here on my page.

and now for something completely different....

In other news, I had the dreaded colonoscopy last week, no problems but I gotta tell you this little story. You see, I have this tattoo on the outside of my right calf, I'll work on getting a pic up for you all. As the one gal was working on the iv end, hooking me up to the monitors. The other gal was working on the other end, getting me into the proper position, said "oh, that's a nice one", I said "Thank you, oh, you mean the tattoo" to which she promptly smacked me on the ass and stated that she's seen a thousand butts and we all had a good laugh.

hey, and here it is....

That's about all I remember.... good drugs man...



see ya

it ain't easy

man, I tell ya it ain't easy, trying to figure this blogging stuff out.
my url, someone else's url, adding url's... where's the simple point and click pick lists type thingies for us old folks.
and in other news, I either made some new friends or upset some people by dropping in on their blogs and linking ( maybe) to mine. I only did what Tony Pierce said to do.... I should link to him too, huh????
let me see what I can do.... I'll be back

I'm thinking

Hi all, or to whom, whatever.

If someone stops by, leave a note so I know you were here.

Anyway, back to thinking.... if the government would give me my portion of that 700 BILLION I would help stimulate the economy.

Think about that, give everyone, home owner, 1 home, tax payer, legal resident or however they figure the census for the total number of people in America their piece of that 700 BILLION that they're giving the banks or wall street, imagine how much the economy would be stimulated....

BUT then again if there are 700 BILLION people in the US we'd only get a dollar so that wouldn't do much, would it.

OR the folks with troubles paying their mortgage, redo them 30 years at 5%, the banks still get their money, the people keep their homes and the gov keeps our money. Sounds easy to me but I'm not a politician nor an economist.



To recap Thursdays post, darts went well, we won 4 of 9 games and that should put us mid pack at this time but it's early, week 1.



As for the golf tourney that we were going to, the only golf we saw was in tv.
When we got there the parking attendant informed us that the course was closed til 4pm, so we spun around and headed over to the casino, that's where the tourney was at. We got our Diamond Cards as that's how it's done, you put money on a gaming card, 50$ each, big spenders I know.

We couldn't find the machines we liked so we settled for another type of .25 video poker machine and after a few games she decided we needed to change. We hunted some more found the ones we wanted, stuck our cards in and it came up insufficient funds, huh??? what the???? oopsie we were at $25.00 machines not the .25 cent machines. After more exploring we found what we were looking for and played away.
Needless to say I lost my $50 and she broke even, cashing out her card for $50 bucks. I don't know what the time line was for all this because I forgot to put my watch on, oh well. good times....

Now my only problem is, I didn't know how easy it was to get there and find the place..... if ya know what I mean....

see ya

darts and golf

darts start tonight, 6:30 and here I am at work til 7.
I'll just have to play catchup at 7:30 when I get there.
Have the nites games replayed for me, good shots and bad..
We can't be out too late though, we have tickets pga tomorrow.
They start play at 7am and I thinking it'll take about 1.5 hrs to get there
after I figure out how that is, mapquest here I come.
I'll let ya know about darts and golf laters
see ya

'08 classic pics

more race pics..


this guy is on fire...

here's the winner..

a slight steering problem

Bentley

classic weekend hairdo

good times and cold beer...

see ya

god golfs on fridays and I forgot my lunch

We had our Friday play date, with Ell, Ant and Sky at my sisters house, pizza and beer... the beer was for us big people, sodas for the other three. She went and picked up the pizza and saved us about 7 bucks... geeesh 7 bucks to deliver 6 blocks that's crap... anyway, Ell was done with her slice first and ready to play, so the other 2 said they were done too after only eating 1/2 of theirs. To which I stated that no one's going anywhere til' everyone was done, at that time Ant forgot he was done and asked for more. I grabbed 2 for me with another beer and started idle chit chat to keep everybody at the table so Sky would finish at least 1 piece, mission accomplished. I think I ended up eating 6 pieces. Pizza is diet food isn't it??
After having such a well balanced dinner I thought a walk would be in order and before said walk we would all go the the bathroom one at a time Ant first. Ant proudly let us know that he pooped, ah to be 3 again.
As we walked we talked, there's Lupas house, there's Sky's mothers apartment house way before Sky. That car's from California, that house has lots of yard toys, there's a nice mail box, hey look at that bird house. As we were coming to the church I asked if anyone thought if God was home Ant replied no God wasn't home tonight cause he was golfing. God golfs on Friday nites, who knew and according to Ant he goes bowling after golf. Other things we saw on our walk were where a racecar driver lives, a canoe on a garage, some nice flowers, the neighborhood watchdog, good times.

I have to work again tonight, OT. I grabbed my bag for my shower after work and headed out all he while thinking I forgot something. Sunglasses check, keys check, good shirt for church check, I'm on my way. Now we have a bridge closed for repairs and there is only 1 other one to get to the eastside where I have to go. I pull up up to the light in line four cars back, a little old lady is trying to pull out of a store there on the corner and she wants to go left too so now she has both southbound lanes blocked. There is also another gal wanting to do the same thing so now there are two cars blocking both lanes and I am also in the south bound lane to turn left. After the light changes for the second time and nobody moving, I change lanes, drive into and out of the parking lot and am first in line to got straight. I go up a block, pull in on side of hairdressers driveway and out the other, get back up to the light which has a turn right arrow and make my now right turn onto the bridge which was a left turn coming from the other way and the little old lady is still sitting there holding everyone up.
The rest of the ride way uneventful, I get to work, reach for gym bag and my lunch oopsie now I know what I forgot, my lunch, I get hungry just thinking about not having anything to eat all night. oh well, sux to be me, I guess I'll have to buy a cookie and coke, more health food.