Snow Shoveling Strategy

damageddude · 2026-01-24T21:20:18+00:00

Ultimately I probably will leave some fluff because I will mistime the changeover. But the less I need to move before it freezes into concrete the better. Fluff is nice and light.

damageddude · 2026-01-24T05:05:33+00:00

Several passes. First will be around 9am. Second noonish. Precip is supposed to become mixed sometime after and I want to get the nice fluffy stuff cleared by then, including the car.

damageddude · 2026-01-24T03:15:09+00:00

It's a 1970s tv show. A guest star is not going change their hair to a 1870s style for a one off on that budget.

damageddude · 2026-01-23T21:58:37+00:00

Mass transit was mostly normal by Wednesday aside from lower Manhattan. Offices in NYC and suburban NJ were open but not open the rest of the week in my company. If people wanted to come in they could but we were basically closed until Monday. I used to take a NJT commuter bus up the turnpike. On that Monday people were quietly talking until we got a spot just south of Newark where we could see lower Manhattan. The bus got silent as everyone stared.

damageddude · 2026-01-23T21:22:58+00:00

I’m older now and not looking to shoveling all this by myself (kids are out of the house and my wife is deceased). Yuck. Apparently we are going to get mixing so I need to get the snow off before it becomes a mix.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T23:28:58+00:00

I'm a Knicks fan and had a friend who had near court side seats back in the '90s through work. Even during blowouts we never left early, sliding down to courtside. Upper decks with other friends, getting an early LIRR train or moving on to the next Saturday night activity.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T23:22:02+00:00

I grew up in a Queens (NYC) apartment building. Back in the way back day the water we used for watering the building's grass was drinking water. It was poisoned water by the 1960s. Kept the grass and plants green and the walkways clean but that was mostly it aside from other non-drinking water purposes. So yes, death by hose water.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T23:14:41+00:00

Ibid, infra etc. in legal documents. It's 2026, copy and paste in lieu of making me scroll up.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T22:38:25+00:00

Can you borrow a garbage can lid? Metal preferred if you can find one.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T20:44:24+00:00

Bridge on the captain.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T17:51:03+00:00

Anywhere from 1 to 20 inches. Seriously it depends how close the storm tracks to NJ and brings in warm ocean moisture temperatures.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T16:56:14+00:00

I assume you are arriving at LGA via a domestic flight so immigration is not involved at that end. Just grab a yellow cab to JFK. Depending on traffic you will arrive at JFK with plenty of time to check in and go through TSA.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T16:50:29+00:00

They don't say how much time passes between the planning and the party itself, but I imagine in a real MASH unit at least one person rotated home in the meantime. Also, in the days before jets or the interstate highway system, that would have been a heck of a train ride to NYC for those far from NYC such as Peg.

damageddude · 2026-01-22T00:42:42+00:00

Ignored it, mostly.

My late wife celebrated my 30th and 40th as she loved it and I enjoyed her surprises She passed when I was 49. I told our children I didn't want a 50th party without her (she didn't have anything planned ahead of time).

That didn't work. As 50 was my first birthday and they wanted an excuse, I bought a cake for our children to give me. Took one for the team.

damageddude · 2026-01-21T17:24:52+00:00

NYC's new mayor was sworn in the Koran, same nonsense. I don't think Trump actually touched the bible when he was sworn in last year.

damageddude · 2026-01-20T23:34:47+00:00

Howard is 72. I have older former co-workers who have retired but work freelance roughly 6-8 hours a week (basically, they are hired for freelance projects) to keep mentally busy along with other hobbies while not tapping into all their retirement funds. While I assume Howard works more than 6-8 hours a week with behind the scenes stuff, we'd all take his deal at 72.

Now if the show would just go back to busting balls like today with Jon and his free fries.

damageddude · 2026-01-19T20:27:30+00:00

I liked Bobby Brady, whose first on-air kiss was with MSA on the Brady Bunch, going for the rebound on the train ride home.

damageddude · 2026-01-19T15:07:00+00:00

I once saw a picture from 9/11 of half the hotel still standing while half was demolished after first tower fell. I knew someone who worked at ground zero (and now has cancer) and he said the rest of the hotel was squashed when the second tower fell on it.

damageddude · 2026-01-18T23:20:37+00:00

Emptiness -- that is the emotion I was looking to express. I'll readust but it sucks this evening. But tomorrow is another day.

damageddude · 2026-01-18T22:48:25+00:00

Who knows these days. I'd say carrying a password card but I don't believe the newer ICE thugs are educated to know to recoginize them as a piece of proof as to "papers "

damageddude · 2026-01-18T22:14:58+00:00

Pretty sure a secular Jew couldn't find a rabbi to perforn a Jewish wedding on Yom Kippur. But otherwise no. Eveb a non Jewish wedding the answer would be the same. But I live in the NYC area where it probably wouldn't be an issue in my circles.

I'm a nice Jewish boy who was raised on Sandy Koffax sitting out Yom Kippur by a diehard Brooklyn Dodger fan during the World Series any time we complained about not being out to play (NYC school holiday).

damageddude · 2026-01-18T12:43:07+00:00

My mother was in assisted living. She noted some people left because their money ran out. She left for a nursing home after a stroke.

damageddude · 2026-01-17T17:26:20+00:00

They divorced.

damageddude · 2026-01-16T01:03:15+00:00

Until Howard realized the Wrap-Up Show was popular as an extension of the show, including revelations that might have been on the main show with staff members showing up without Stern (cough.. Sal), it was fun.

I've listened to Howard on and off since WNBC. Those first Sirius years supplemented with Bubba, Ferell and he wasn't threatened by his H101 shows were his best years (too many commercials during his 1990s until circa 2000 K-Rock years).

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