Wednesday, January 9, 2008

A few words

Well here I am again... in the library... homework is done, nothing to do for another half hour. Two thoughts come to mind.

One. Since sometime last semester I've had an iPod. It was a shuffle. I love/loved it. Loved it because for Christmas I got a Nano, so I don't use the shuffle anymore. Anyhow, since then I've always brought it with me to school, as I spend a lot of time walking or in the library, so it's nice to have the tunes with me. I don't know how many hours a day on average I have this thing running, but its probably on the order of about 3-4. Thats a lot I think. Well I started to notice a month or two ago (or maybe more) that I skip most of the songs. Maybe because they're old or overplayed or whatever, but I often find myself clicking away at the 'skip track' button. Ok, I'm getting there, I promise. I think today was a new record. I started the shuffle songs deal on the nano about 3 1/2 hours ago. take about 45 minuted of class away and that leaves you with over 2 1/2 hours that this thing has been running since then. This is ridiculous... I've already been through 381 of the 658 songs that I have on it. Make that 424. Geez. I can't help myself. So in conclusion, I need to do one of two things. Either take it off shuffle and choose the songs that I want to hear (but that takes so much more effort), or just leave the little music maker home for a day or two. Mm... that sounds kinda nice.

Two. Some people have probably noticed my dissatisfaction with weather forecasts/ers as of late. The thing is... before Christmas break, the guy on one of the local channels was calling for like 3 big storms (like 3-9 inches) before Christmas. One of those for the day before I left. Jack diddly. Then I come back and see on noaa.gov (normally a very good, reliable place for weather) the forecast boxes filled with snow... and almost all of them at 50% chance of precipitation or better. Well since I've been home it hasn't done anything... except some funky ice/snow that looked like little styrofoam bits. Anyhow, they called for another giant... nothing... then I check yesterday and there was a small chance of snow overnight. And I wake up to like 3-4 inches of snow. ?!?!? Where do these guys get their info? It frustrates me. you'd think by now they would have this weather thing down. I mean, we can clone animals, split atoms, fly through space. Whatever. At any rate I'm happy it snowed on us and I hope it does some more and I hope that the weatherman doesn't tell us that it will just to make us happy.

Hmm... that worked out nicely... time to go!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am with you 100% on the weather guys. In Iowa-not a clue, um ever! In Arizona they were a bit closer-It's going to be sunny and hot. If there was a storm they were completely stumped! Ejoy that snow, we are getting rain all week. Easier to clean up, but not as pretty.

The Weinert's said...

I have to let you know, Brad, that this is the first Air Force base that I have been to in four years that has a weather department that actually has windows that you can actually see outside from. All the others have no idea what's going on and don't bother to take a peak outside when they say it is pouring rain or foggy when it is really sun and clear. They just lean on the computer program that other weather geeks (that also have no windows in their office) created twenty years ago to predict the weather.

La Familia Mariscal said...

So, Brad, you're a bit behind on your blogging. What are you doing...studying???

The Weinert's said...

Yea, who are you studying? Oops, did I say who?