CJ, I hope the virus doesn't get any worse. That's terrible news about your friend. I really hate the idea of back surgeries just because of problems like this. You spend too much time in bed and then develop deep vein thrombosis, which they still can't seem to control effectively. I would need to be in excruciating pain before I even considered back surgery.
Chris, sounds like it's a little nippy down there too. I'm not planning on coming to Florida in the near future but a warm beach and those bikinis sounds like a nice break.
Larry, sounds like a fun night at that fly-in. We had a low of 36 last night so I guess it got even colder down your way.
Mark, the biggest snowstorm ever to hit this area was in 1993, when they had 5 inches and it paralyzed the state for about three days. It seems like we have a little snow about every 10-15 years. The snow we had last year was less than an inch and it only lasted until the afternoon. That was first snow since 1993. It's 72 here right now. An average January day is a high of about 60 and a low of about 40. Of course, it does get a little toasty in the summer.
Steve, you're supposed to let go of the wheel when it does things like that. I suppose the Land Rover didn't have power steering though, so when you hit something like that rock, the steering wheel turns into a blender pretty fast.
David, thanks for the information on the high level switch stands. I think I'm starting to get the idea now but assembling one of those things is certainly not intuitive.
Rex, you did a good job coaching again.
I had never been to Tuscaloosa before the game and was impressed with all the nice old homes. I guess the PD is used to handling large crowds. I bought my scanner along and it looks like Tuscaloosa S.O. and the city FD has gone digital so you won't be able to here them on your scanner. There were also two NS channels that were digital. Everything else including all the DPS channels are still analog so you can still listen to them. At some point, almost everything will move to digital. I'm hoping the price on digital scanners will start coming down but the cheapest is still about $350.
We had a call to a construction site where two workers got into a fight with nail guns. Neither of them died but they did look like porcupines after we finally got things under control. I think that's about the silliest I ever felt, standing there with my weapon drawn yelling "Drop those nail guns" but those things can do some damage.
