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So I spent the afternoon completing the plow attachment I bought for my riding mower last summer but never finished assembling. Learned how to put on tire chains under duress. The results were not great but acceptable.
The problem with the snowblower, by the way, was that the Ninja Cats stole the friction disc and replaced it with one that was completely worn down to the metal on one side. When the wheel hits that side the machine just stops moving. I can fix it pretty easily but I don't know if I can get the replacement part in time for the next snow.
And apparently I need to start locking that side of the garage.
The lead ninja cat is offering a perfectly working friction disc in exchange for 10 cans of tuna. You'll need to come here to make the exchange though. Her paws are tired now.
So... that's a lot of snow.
We got some of the spillage, but nothing that compares to what is going on up there.
I know Uncensored is now hosted at a professional facility, but it's still impressive that it's running with all that terrible weather going on.
The snowblower has been repaired and a snow plow has been added to the fleet (courtesy of a plow blade attachment on my John Deere). And I have a 14 year old who doesn't care whether he's plowing snow, ninja cats, plaid jello, whatever gets in his way gets plowed off to the side.
(If you can't see the photo go to https://plus.google.com/107027477281187068618/posts/PPvH6M1ezrp instead)
So ... snow chains.
They take about 30 seconds to install if you know what you're doing and can see what you're doing.
That wasn't the case on Saturday evening, when it took about half an hour since I had no clue what I was doing and the motion-controlled driveway light kept turning off.
IG, I agree. Snow chains are evil the first time you use them (as it is always dark the first time). As to the 6" of snow, meh, but if it was mixed with freezing rain - ugh. I feel for ya. I would not attack that with a shovel, even with a younger heart.
2015-01-29 00:27 from ax25
IG, I agree. Snow chains are evil the first time you use them (as
it is always dark the first time). As to the 6" of snow, meh, but
if it was mixed with freezing rain - ugh. I feel for ya. I would
not attack that with a shovel, even with a younger heart.
When I was of 'a younger heart' (1950s) you had no choice.
Shovel or it stays there!
When I was of 'a younger heart' (1950s) you had no choice.
Shovel or it stays there!
Nah, just wait for spring or (global warming) to come. But in the '50s, you could have employed an industrious neighborhood kid to shovel it for about a bit.
2015-01-27 13:59 from IGnatius T Foobar
Three separate Internet feeds running over geographically diverse
fiber, six generators, onsite staff ... if Uncensored goes down and
it's not something I did, there are *much* bigger problems happening.
Let's talk about nonredundant compute nodes. BTW, that's a real nice persistent datastore you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
I could bring up another copy of Uncensored from a backup well within that three-nines window. I've got a week's worth of snapshots on the host. Those are also sent to my house. There's a backup at the data center with 30 day retention. And another backup at another data center 150 miles away with a 30 day retention. How's that?
Happy Ground Hog Day to all!
And, well, sorry about the shadow thing, but how reliable is a ground hog for weather prognostication purposes, anyway?
2015-02-02 12:01 from fleeb
Happy Ground Hog Day to all!
And, well, sorry about the shadow thing, but how reliable is a ground
hog for weather prognostication purposes, anyway?
It all depends on which groundhog.
There are groundhogs, but there is only one Groundhog.
There is only one Groundhog, and Punxhatawny Phil is his Name.
Or to put it slightly differently...
Phxhatawney Phil is Groundhog, and the others are His Prophets.
"Philahu Hogbar"??????
I do wonder of The One Ground Hog's capacity as weather predictor, but it remains an amusing tradition, if nothing else.