WE had a 17 car pileup at the bottom of one of our hills—we aren’t San Francisco, but on an icy day, we have significant hills.
We’re tucked in not going anywhere. Which is a good thing.
We’re really glad to be tucked in not going anywhere.
Just working away.
Great day to do genealogy.
That apple pie sounded most suitable for a snowy night.
There were over 100 accidents in the area becasue of ice today. I did get an interesting picture though (the one posted for 11/19/11)
http://zettepicaday.blogspot.com/
Great close-up picture of leaves and color, Zette (and of Edmond too)! I like the composition.
Thank you! The picture was to show husband that Edmond is feeling better even if he isn’t entirely happy. It turned out well, though. Did a lot of Photoshop playing with it, just for fun.
It’s funny how it is, that people who’ve lived in northern climes all their lives still manage to forget — every year! — how to drive in snow until reminded by the first major snowfall. :facepalm:
Heh, it could be worse. Here where we get a couple inches of snow maybe once every 5 years, its safer to just stay as far as possible from white stuff on the roads. Too many of the locals just don’t KNOW they have no clue how to drive in snow.
It constantly amazes how people who should know better don’t! I’m sure the same thing will happen here when we get our first serious freeze.
The weather is odd to say the very least. Friday, wind and rain and about forty, this morning it was over 50 at 7:00AM and expected to go into the 60’s today. As I recall this is par for the course with an El Nino winter. We are finishing our yard clean-up in the next few days…..expect wood delivery this week.
Happy to hear that you are snug and warm at home….I hope the various cold nasties have cleared up.
BTW: I am asking this everywhere. Does anyone know how I can get a copyright symbol onto my blog page?
Copyright symbol in html: use & c o p y ; without the spaces in between. It comes out as ©
some word processing programs automatically convert (c) into a copyright symbol. Perhaps you could cut and paste?
What gets me is that when weather is bad, Spokanites, who routinely believe that you should stop 4 carlengths behind another car at a stoplight, and other curious rituals—also believe that when it starts to snow or ice up you should floor it to get home faster.
There are some really good winter drivers up here, but on the first day of a snow they try to stay off the roads for fear of behind hit by one of the zoom-theory proponents.
BTW someone has said they had trouble getting on the site—I hope that is now cleared up.
The ASCII code for the © symbol (which, as you can see, works in WordPress) is to hold down the ALT key while typing “0169” on the key pad. You have to use the keypad. The top row numbers won’t work. After you’ve typed the numbers, release the ALT key and you get the symbol. You can get Greek letters, symbols (degree, British pound sign, cent sign), vowels with diacritical markings (accents, umlauts, circumflexes, etc.) this way. I have a whole cheat sheet of stuff.
One of the joys of working from home is not having to get out on the streets to go to work (tough commute– 10 steps on carpet). I stay off the streets unless it’s a dire emergency — drivers here don’t even know how to drive in rain, never mind snow. Every time it snows, it’s Demolition Derby Day here. I’m getting ready to start work, snug as a bug in my lap robe with a kitty in my lap.
Using Alt + the decimal Unicode number only works on PCs, not on Macs.
© is also easier to remember.
For a list of characters which have reserved names in HTML (or ‘HTML entities’, as they are called) see
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
You can also enter any Unicode character in HTML using its decimal or hex number by using &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;
For example, 中国 gives the Chinese characters for ‘China’: 中国
And © is equivalent to © – the copyright symbol again: ©
I would like to work at home, as WOL mentioned. However, I am very wary of the many work-at-home scams out there. Does anyone have recommendation for legitimate home-based work?
Our weather has been too warm for snow. We’ve had brief COLD spells with low 20’s at night, but warms ups have followed. I am wishing for snow days, but they’re not in the near future.
Tucked up sounds good 🙂 . November weather in the UK has been weird: remarkably warm, with temps 50F or above. Even today – comparatively chilly – has been 50F! Goodness knows what sort of a winter we are in for; last year we had heavy & persistent snow in December & cold during January. (Incidentally, if there is one thing a Brit will *always* talk about, it’s the weather!)
When I went to bed last night, here in central Montana, it was ten degrees below zero. With about an inch of snow on the ground/sidewalks/streets. It’s twelve above now, which seems like a heat wave. And it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. (HUGE sighs.)
What I do from home is medical transcription, not for the faint of heart, slow typists, poor spellers, or those who have trouble understanding people with accents. You have to go to school for it, and good luck making any money at it — unless you can type as fast as CJ.
And unfortunately you’re going from spoken word to print, but not always the same person doing it, so applications like Dragon wouldn’t work for you.
[I tried Dragon back 10 years ago: it just couldn’t understand me: I spent more time teaching it and correcting its mistakes than I would have typing it. But I imagine in 10 years they’ve gotten better.]
I have a cousin who is doing medical transcription. She completed the course work, tried it once and moved on, but now she’s picked it up again along with other jobs. I am not a fast typist, so that one is probably not for me! I’d like to make a decent part-time income at *whatever* I do next.
We’ve been having misty, moisty, cold and clammy weather over here for a week, very autumnal, and it’s still going strong. No driving to my hobby-group tonight, there is no sense in taking a risk in such a fog for a cosy night out. (By the way, what’s the difference between mist and fog?)
On a very different note, through Sharon Lee’s blog I read an article by Cory Doctorow on http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/stop-sopa-save-the-internet.html about a new law, expected to become law by Christmas. If I understand correctly this could mean that your site could be blocked, or PayPal could stop payments to Closed Circle, if one of us accidentally posted a link to something that some large company or the government takes exception to.
Links to YouTube videos seem quite dangerous, if this becomes law. I did enjoy the great sailing ships, and the beautiful videos which Jane finds and links into her blog, but how is one to know which of these are safe to link to? I think Wikipedia-articles and Amazon-pages and such will probably be safe, but anything with music seems to be almost by definition against the law…
Or is this an alarmist storm in a teacup?
The law probably has something to do with the pirate sites. Sometimes the US tends to pass broad laws and then become very lazy about enforcing them until there is an egregious opportunity. Not saying I don’t wish they would use a scalpel more often than they use a nuclear device.