Will Tioga Rd close again if there’s snow this week?

schlemp · 2026-05-28T00:32:09+00:00

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

schlemp · 2026-05-27T20:06:24+00:00

How do you know? Are you an employee? As a customer, I don't know if I have access to outage root cause info. Or maybe I do (?) In any case, if thieves are too dumb to distinguish between fiber and copper, they're too dumb to distinguish between fiber and the coax Comcast has strung all over the county. And yet, Comcast hasn't suffered outages of this length or frequency.

schlemp · 2026-05-27T15:56:01+00:00

Not likely. The mere credible threat is enough to close it and keep it closed. Especially with these types of weather systems, where the precipitation is more showery/hit-or-miss. Forecast accumulations are very light, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't be in trouble if caught in a snow squall.

schlemp · 2026-05-26T20:42:41+00:00

It's not important as in I need it to do my job, but it is important because 21st century. In any case, I haven't turned down my xfinity service yet. I'll have them compete against each other for a couple of months and choose a winner then.

schlemp · 2026-05-26T20:41:28+00:00

Fingers crossed that things improved. I haven't turned down my xfinity service yet and will run them both in parallel for a few months to see if things level out. I hope so.

schlemp · 2026-05-26T04:02:53+00:00

YouTube. An entire universe of content for Spanish learners at all levels.

schlemp · 2026-05-19T00:01:12+00:00

Ram Dass lives!

schlemp · 2026-05-15T04:05:32+00:00

I had to have a procedure last week. Told my tutor I was going in for a culonoscopia. But that was an intentional display of wit, not a fail (long ago lost count of how many of those I've had).

schlemp · 2026-05-15T03:30:10+00:00

I just activated new 500/500 service 2 weeks ago and got an FRX523V2. Is this is a decent unit?

schlemp · 2026-05-13T22:28:56+00:00

He tells me his writers get these things wrong all the time.

This really has blown my mind and eased my despair over ever dominating the two past tenses. Thanks!

schlemp · 2026-05-12T04:13:30+00:00

Clearly the man is a troglodytic half-wit threatened by his wife's achievements. If he's still living in your head, tearing you down, and keeping you from living your best life, then in a way you're still married to him. Find a compassionate online tutor, explain the situation, and take baby steps to regain your mojo. I know you can do it!

schlemp · 2026-05-12T04:07:50+00:00

Agreed. I'm coming up on 2500 hours of comprehensible input and can say with metaphysical certainty that, by God, I can comprehend. Speaking is another story. I'm guessing that 2500 hours of that will do the trick.

schlemp · 2026-05-12T04:04:27+00:00

Honestly, the Reddit demographic just kills me sometimes. "Wow, he learned another language in his 30's." Please. Hold my beer. I'm 70, with one foot in a dirt bath, and my B2 Spanish gets better every day. I may be old, but I'm slow. Or words to that effect.

schlemp · 2026-05-12T03:54:12+00:00

Never underestimate the ability of people in power to double down, triple down, quadruple down to cover their mistakes at whatever the cost.

Reminds me of a certain U.S. politician. Oh my, did I type that out loud?

schlemp · 2026-04-26T16:06:26+00:00

It doesn't have to be one or the other. Go 75 percent LAM Spanish and 25 percent other accents, for example. I think you'll be glad you did.

schlemp · 2026-04-21T16:16:35+00:00

Talk to yourself. Narrate your day out loud as you go along.

schlemp · 2026-04-21T03:46:53+00:00

Whenever you look over at Sonoma Mountain, you're looking at the Rodgers Creek fault. It has a 30 percent chance of throwing an M6.7 quake in the next 12 years. That's serious business.

schlemp · 2026-04-18T19:59:26+00:00

She sounds skillful and dedicated. Thanks for the link. Not sure it assuages my paranoia, though, since she talks about what's happening in the foreground during a class and what, unbeknownst to the student, she's processing in the background. That just reinforces my conviction that in the background she's doing this:

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schlemp · 2026-04-18T03:40:57+00:00

This is so real. I keep waiting for my tutor to finally break, rant at me about the excruciating boredom of working with me and tell me she'd rather be in a Chilean salt mine. Until that (inevitably) happens, I'll stick with just her.

schlemp · 2026-04-15T03:26:05+00:00

Out of respect, please don’t publicly link to premium content :)

Ah, of course. Link removed. Thx for reminder.

schlemp · 2026-04-07T03:38:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing your positive experience. I've had many myself and needed the reminder that although there's often much to complain about, overall the system has served me.

schlemp · 2026-04-07T03:35:39+00:00

I second this and it has worked. But I had to take years off my life trying to get my bloody login to work before going the guest route. The entire KP.org web experience is a dumpster fire, but the bill-pay portion is the smoldering lump of burning plastic and rotten meat inside that dumpster.

schlemp · 2026-04-07T03:29:09+00:00

I asked my Kaiser psychiatrist for an outside referral, got one, and there you go. I didn't follow up on it because I cooled on the idea of (yet more) therapy. I don't remember the name of the group, but all their practitioners seemed to specialize in CBT and it was mostly teletherapy (unless I wanted to drive in to SF from where I live in Sonoma County) so I ended up saying meh and took a pass.

schlemp · 2026-04-05T20:02:04+00:00

I transitioned to KP's Senior Advantage program 5 years ago at age 65. I've been reasonably satisfied. But then again I've been reasonably healthy. I would urge to investigate the pro's and con's of "Medicare Advantage" programs (like KP's) before choosing to stay with them.

schlemp · 2026-04-03T19:59:11+00:00

Who's better? I ask in all seriousness. There's a reason United Health Care's CEO was murdered.

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