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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 6:32 pm
Snow is wet, but it's not like a soaking wet unless you really sit in it or have it dropped on you.
In the UK we have just one week every year (typically in February) where we get snow. We only ever get like a few centimetres maximum and the entire country grinds to a halt over it. It's so pathetic.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Listening to The Nosh Show, a junk food podcast.
http://www.thenoshshow.com/
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 7:57 pm
(July 16, 2015 at 6:25 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I just spent an hour reading building codes only to have my coworker explain in two minutes how I needn't have bothered since I was looking for information that doesn't exist... 
Oh, holy shit! I have soooo been there. NEC and API.
Speaking of which, anyone know where I can get a copy of the latest NEC code book on the cheap?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 8:08 pm
(July 17, 2015 at 7:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (July 17, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Wondering if it's worth it to travel 2hrs to see snow for the first time with my daughter.
We don't have snow clothes.
I hear it's wet. I don't own anything that's waterproof, including shoes.
Not even gloves or a beanie.
It's a rare event.
I'm so undecided.
Depends on how cold it is. If it's been well below freezing for awhile, snow isn't very wet. But once it starts getting above freezing... it gets nasty fast.
What Esquilax says is correct, but you have to remember, where he is at is a freakin' frozen wasteland in the winter. 
Yep, our average January daytime temperature of 50 degrees is soooooo much colder than Portland's 52.
With our dry climate, it actually
feels warmer.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 8:12 pm
I think some of that Portland hipster is rubbing off on CM...
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 17, 2015 at 8:34 pm
I piked out.
It would have turned into a Mr Bean episode. :-)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
July 18, 2015 at 11:59 am
(July 17, 2015 at 7:57 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Oh, holy shit! I have soooo been there. NEC and API.
Speaking of which, anyone know where I can get a copy of the latest NEC code book on the cheap?
You'd think they'd put them online so you could reference them but nooOOoo! They make code books all expensive and shit...
(July 17, 2015 at 8:12 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I think some of that Portland hipster is rubbing off on CM...
???
You clearly don't know me well enough if you think the word "hip" applies to me in any sense other than "I have two hip joints" - let alone the word "hipster"
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