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August 31, 2006
Stupid Power Outage...
Power outages really suck. Mind you, this wasn't even a power out during which I was anywhere that was suddenly lacking electricity. It was a long power out across the West Campus area (probably another squirrel, thank goodness I don't live at White Course anymore) that afflicted Walker right at 5pm yesterday. I thought the only thing that would directly affect me was the fact that my work computer was shut down and I had to turn it back on this morning. But no, after I go through all the effort of spending extra time making my forecast and the graphics for CNET and get my shirt and tie with the shorts and sandals on, I find out that none of the Campus Weather Service graphics are updating; they were either blank or showing what they'd updated with prior to yesterday's power outage. It turns out there's some computer somewhere in the server farm somewhere in Walker that hadn't been rebooted, but we didn't know which one it was because all the meteo computer staff were gone for the day already. So, long story longer, I couldn't tape my gussied-up CNET forecast today.
I'd even spent extra time looking at models and everything to make my forecast, so that I could have time to make some slick animations (my attempt at making them failed), and hopefully pinpoint the start of the rain from the remnants of Ernesto here in State College. So my prediction as of 3pm this afternoon for the onset of rain? About 6pm. We shall see tomorrow how well my forecast verifies. But all indications are for 2 to 4 inches of rain overall through Saturday, possibly more. 'Twill be a tad wet.
Tonight was still dry though, which was a good thing since it was the date of the final week of Wingfest. That meant all the winners from the previous six weeks were there (except Racers {hey buddy}, which was a no-show, oddly), and all the wings were good. My favourite? The mountain jerk wings from, well, I forget the name of the place, but it wasn't Damon's, Quaker Steak, CPI or Down Under Steakhouse. It was the other one, whatever it was named. Yeah, it was really memorable. ;-)
In the event that anyone comes across any scalped tickets for cricket matches for "The Ashes" matchup between England and Australia in the land down under, buyer beware. You know, I just didn't want any of the rabid cricket fans in these parts to be disappointed when they buy a ticket off eBay only to be rejected at the gate in Melbourne.
And speaking of Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said something very politically incorrect recently: he told Muslim immigrants to Australia (particularly the extremists) that they need to learn English and become integrated into Australian society, which would include treating women equally. How dare he advocate equality.
Less than 40 hours until the kickoff of Penn State vs Akron!! Oh yeah, and the new grad student welcome picnic and party are tomorrow evening. And then tailgating starts Saturday morning, Ernesto or shine. Should be a fantastic weekend!!
Posted by Jared at August 31, 2006 11:56 PM
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Dreamers Pub had your favorite.
Posted by: Jeff at September 1, 2006 10:57 AM
Hey Beautiful, I went to my first UA college football game. We won on a last second field goal, though we actually played very poorly. I think next time I will paint my face.
Posted by: Cory at September 3, 2006 04:19 PM
That's awesome Cory! I'm tellin ya, Arizona's gonna have a pretty decent football team over the next couple years, that Tuitama guy at QB is pretty good, and Stoops has built a nice-looking defense in the desert. You've gotta send me a picture if you paint your face though, that'd rock so hard-core!
Posted by: Jared at September 3, 2006 09:10 PM