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Took the kids to Catamount for 3-9pm night skiing. It rained all morning, but cleared out early afternoon. Fair amount of fog, some slush and slop around, as you'd expect. Felt late-Springy, hopefully the cold over the past few days helps them recover. Overall, we had a great time. Enough...

Question - If you have a season pass to a mountain, can you just go any time you want, Covid-driven capacity restrictions be damned? Trying to navigate sold out dates that seem to be getting worse, and in some cases seems a season pass that catches the end of this season might be worth it just...

With quarantine rules and school policies (which, for the greater good, we follow (plus there's no way my son wouldn't accidently rat us out)), the only place outside of CT we can ski is NY, which leaves us with the Big 4 of Hunter/Wyndham/Plattekill/Bellyare. We're wanting to pull the kids and...

Mohawk is about 1.5 hours from us, is totally kid-friendly, and is a nice little hill, so it's our go-to "local" hill. Left home yesterday just before the snow started, drove home into the sunshine just as the storm left the Stamford area. Great day of skiing. Our first day at Mohawk this...

It's been so long since I've been able to go skiing, and so long since I've even been to AZ, I just have to post this trip report. I took the kids (4 and 6) to Mt Southington for their first ski day ever. I'd heard nothing but good things (all proven true) about the ski school, and it's about...

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/174913.shtml?50wind120#contents Start panicking! The marina issued a note recommending making preparations. $5 says school gets cancelled.

Does anyone keep of a scorecard of model performance? Recognizing that nothing's perfect, and every model has its day, it'd be interesting to see what the, say, 36-hour accuracy is for the various models by storm system. Like, yesterday's storm, and last week's blizzard. Could be interesting...

Let's get down to the important things, as we head towards Christmas and the multi-generational family-induced need for a libation, tipple, or dram. Do you like egg nog? Do you make or buy? Cooker, or raw? Bourbon, or rum? My wife's family enjoys a Polish drink called (phonetically) "eye-ya...

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Live_updates_Rosetta_mission_comet_landing Live streaming available, supposed to be touching down in about half an hour at 11.02 Eastern time. Kinda cool.

So, here's one for consideration. A local rabbit has deposited a litter of kits in the middle of our back yard. Not a good place with lawnmowers and two small children. Should we: A) Leave them alone. Cycle of life and all that, and what happens, happens. It's not our fault if she had them...

When does Windham usually close? My brother broke his foot at Thanksgiving, and is currently in PT through mid/early March or so. His wife just bought a ski weekend at Windham at a silent auction of some sort, so now he's wondering when would be the best time to use it, factoring in his foot...

Sadly, we had to put our Argentinian Mastiff to sleep this evening. He'd been getting wobbly for a few weeks, and last night he slipped on the wood floors and dislocated his hip. Surgery, aside from being up to $4K, had a less than perfect chance of working, if his blood work would even have...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ladee/main/index.html#.UioEfOLD_Go NASA's sending a rocket to the moon, from Virginia. Supposedly it'll be visible from South Carolina to Maine. Worth watching for at 11.27 tonight, I think.

Title says it all, really. When posting from a Surface Pro in IE 10, "Enter" does nothing. There's no way to get a carriage return, so everything stays in one paragraph. Not sure if it's an issue centered on IE 10, Windows 8, Surface, or a setting in the forum software. But, as cool as the...

I just went through cleaning out my gmail inbox, deleting useless emails and generally tidying up. I was doing a series of searches to find big classes of emails- things like newsletters and bills and such. I did one using "facebook" thinking it'd clear out a good handful. 2,242 messages...

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I recently joined a new shop, and one of my first tasks is to get a CRM system in place. My old shop used the huge Microsoft CRM, with a whole boatload of consultants and developers etc in tow. It truly has a lot of horsepower, and did way more than we needed there, without doing everything we...

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Apparently. That was quick.

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