Blizzard '07

Fear not Pecker, I'm alive and well, both feet intact! The final tally according to the news was 29" in Stowe, but with the wind blowing the way it was, there were some good drifts here and there.

Like in front of my door. I had to exit the property thru the slider around back and trek thru

crotch deep snow to get up here. At the time I only had a broom (and the two shovels you saw yesterday). Luckily the snow was nothing but powder and you could actually sweep it away.

Here's me standing in 3+ feet of snow. I know the pictures never do it justice...

Under all this snow somewhere, is my split rail fench. It was covered over mostly by the snow plows. The biggest casualty of the storm are the mailboxs that just get smashed up when the plow comes by. Mostly from all the flying snow getting pushed out of the way.

I did hear on the news though that a few barn roofs caved in, and the cost of milk might go up...

Here's a couple views of the driveway...Battling Betty has gone AWOL.

...and the Toyota is for sale if anyone's interested?

Journal entry

Journal entry #279 -

This is the journal entry of Chuck, on February....I'm not even sure of the date at this point, I think it's Friday, but maybe not. The storm was considerably worse than predicted and I fear my window of opportunity to hike out has long passed. I'll just have to ride it out.

Journal entry #280-

This is Chuck again. I now haven't eaten in 3 days since the last of my rice ran out...making matters worse, I'm running low on water. Reconsidering my plan to hike out. I've decided it's better to die in the cold trying, than sitting around here....

Journal entry #281 -

Chuck here. A small problem. I've managed to include a picture of my snow shovels - as you can

see there is not much of a selection. I can actually flick the snow away faster with the one on the left - flick, flick, flick, but the holes don't help as a lot of snow falls through. The one on the right holds considerably more snow, but I have to be much slower and more methodical. ....I don't think I'll be able to dig myself out. With that in mind I'm getting hungry and thinking maybe I should eat my foot.....

Joornal enntry 2 888888 -

Chuk....I'm fading fast. kant holdd on much longer.......

Snow Update!

"How high is the water, mama?

Two feet high and rising"

-Johnny Cash

"How high is the snow, Chucky?

Two feet high and rising"

-Chuck

Annual Dr's Checkup

So yesterday was my annual checkup. I always do it the day before Valentines Day. It makes it easy to remember when it is for one, and while I may not get chocholates or flowers today, yesterday I got something, something I will spend the next 6 months trying to forget. The conversation went something like this -

"Dr, what's up with the medical world?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, they have this drug Caduet that you take to help prevent heart attacks, then if you stop taking it, a side effect is a heart attack! Brilliant! How does that sort of thing get approved?"

(eyes closed, fingers already massaging temples) "How is your health?"

"Oh, not good! I've got this problem sleeping. I keep waking up at night to pee, often, like 4 or 5 times. I think I have BHP. Maybe I need some Flomax?"

"It's BPH and you're fine, I just checked...I suggest you stop drinking fluids after 5 pm, especially 7 or 8 beers...."

"Ok, well I have another problem. My bowel movements have been really loose. I think I have some sort of a.....a rectal dysfunction. I think I might need some Levitra?"

(massaging temples more vigorously now) "YOU DON'T NEED LEVITRA. LEVITRA IS FOR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION. E-REC-TILE. NOT A RECTAL DYSFUNCTION. AGAIN I SUGGEST YOU STOP DRINK BEER AT NIGHT. GIVE UP THE 4 CUPS OF COFFEE YOU HAVE EVERY MORNING AND EAT MORE FIBER. YOU'LL BE FINE!"

"Dr, I...."

(interrupting) "Chuck, you're in perfect health. However, I would like to refer you to a Dr. down that hall and have him examine you. His name is Dr Freud."

Valentines precursor

What does MoC get for Valentines you ask? A box of chocolates? No. A 4-handed massage? No. Flowers? No, no and no!

While the weather in West Palm is down-right balmy - (see handy graphic below) and looks to remain that way all week. Notice nothing out of the ordinary in the graphic below...78* but feels like 80*. Reverse wind chill I guess?
and the weather in Media is pretending to be winter like (again, see handy graphic below). Notice the cute orange "severe" weather alert. Ohhhh, light snow! Rush to the Wawa...26* feels like 16*.

For Valentines, MoC gets a blizzard. Notice my special red alert, with the additional "heavy snow" warning at the bottom. They're talking possibly 2 Feet. That's right, feet. Oh, and it's zero out and feels like -13*!

Happy Valentines Day Chuck. At least I have 24 hours to find someone to get snowed in with....

Sunday morning reading

Here at MisAdventures of Chuck, I've had my interns scouring the Internet to find all the interesting stories so you won't have to! So as you drink your Sunday morning coffee and browse over here for some reading, kindly allow me to redirect you to any one or all of the following.

Enjoy.

To see what happens when big egos get in bed together, go here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/11/news/letter.php


Or, if you want to find out why it might be a good time to buy a boat, or if you're Hari, build and ark, go here:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/02/news/climate.php


Lastly, have you ever been to Mt Everest base camp? No? I'm surprised. But I bet you've seen pictures - the place is littered with debris, which is just a polite way of saying garbage. Oxygen tanks mostly, a few dead bodies here and there higher up on the mountain and misc other stuff. It gets taken, but never removed.

Actually, you may not have seen the pictures. Even though they are out there, they probably aren't published as much as others, because who wants to picture Mt Everest as a dump?

Turns out space is the same way.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/06/healthscience/web.0206space.php

We humans spend most of the day talking shit, a bit of the day leaving piles of it behind in the toilet, and apparently everywhere else we go as well...

Cheers and happy reading!

MoC

PinF SPAMMED me again...

...and the bottom link didn't work either....

Big Brother

Well in trying to log into Blogger this morning, I was finally forced to switch to the new Blogger. I was instantly greated at the Dashboard by all sorts of bells and whistles and proceeded to faint.

I'm ok now.


In other news, had my Internet been working this past week, I would have filled the e-waves of space with one of those crappy "filler" blogs I post once in awhile. It would have talked about how much I hate the TV show Entertainment Tonight.

Don't watch it you say? Well I don't. But I'm still forced to see what will be on that nights show during the 17 commercial breaks they have, while I watch the news, and every night it's another Anna Nicole story!

I would have blogged about how sick I am of it, and that the best thing for everyone, ANS included would be to just go off and die. There will be no graceful end for Anna.

Hmmm. Simple Celestine Prophecy coinicidence or Magic MoC working the undercurrents of the 7th dimension?

You decide.


And had my Internet been working earlier this week I certainly would have blogged about the latest goings on in space, or at least at everyone's favorite space agency - NASA.

You know, at one time MoC had thoughts of becoming an astronaut. That's right. Back when I was in college.

You see the first step in becoming an astronaut is usually to be a physics major and MoC was a physics major. (you didn't know that about MoC did you?)

The second step to becoming an astronaut is to be a good physics major, and well, that ended MoC's career as an astronaut.

In order to set the Humboldt State record for most intramural champioinships won in a 5 year span, I had to make some sacrifices....and going to the library was one of them. I have no regrets.

Back to NASA...oh what the hell, why bother. All the diaper jokes have already been made and I only really wanted to make the joke about myself anyway.

Chuckster out.

PS - In honor of NASA we will do a count down to my first post with the new blogger. I hope to see you again after liftoff.

T-minus 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...PUBLISH

MIA MoC

Don't worry - not that you have been - but MoC isn't really MIA, he's just getting a new ISP. I have been without Internet this past week, so even my boredom has been bored. With a bit of luck and considering we're talking about Verizon maybe a lot of luck, it should be up and running tonight. At least, that's what they tell me. I translate that to mean sometime Saturday if I'm lucky....

Back to your regularly scheduled program.