How weird, at the exact moment I was going to check the shipping status of my Latin books, my screen door opened and the package was here.
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Friday, January 30, 2004
Hawaii
I found out from my sister that my parents are in Hawaii. Great for them. I am a bit surprised that they did not tell me they were going. I guess its just another example of our growing communication problem.
True I did not want to go home for Christmas because it was so awful last year. But I did not feel there was any sorrow on their side too. I need to be able to visit without having to stay at their house. They have turned into tyrants within their house. They set rules on me they would never enforce on other relatives staying over. I cannot believe they gave me a guilt trip because I slept until 11:00. Such that I did not feel I was able to visit any of my friends for fear of further insulting my parents. I was so angry Christmas (2002) day that I went down to my room and packed and was going to take a cab to the airport and wait it out. That is until my nephew Jack came in to see what I was doing. Once the kids got there, everything was ok, but nothing was resolved. I think it was the lingering irritation from the fight, that continues to this day. I cannot remember what it was about, but I know it was pretty bad. I am not mad at them, I just think they have no respect for me nor treat me like an adult.
Of course I was dethroned as #1 son once Jack was born. That was fine. A man in his 30s (at the time) does not really need to be treated like a child. Trouble seems to be, though, a man in his 40s does not either.
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True I did not want to go home for Christmas because it was so awful last year. But I did not feel there was any sorrow on their side too. I need to be able to visit without having to stay at their house. They have turned into tyrants within their house. They set rules on me they would never enforce on other relatives staying over. I cannot believe they gave me a guilt trip because I slept until 11:00. Such that I did not feel I was able to visit any of my friends for fear of further insulting my parents. I was so angry Christmas (2002) day that I went down to my room and packed and was going to take a cab to the airport and wait it out. That is until my nephew Jack came in to see what I was doing. Once the kids got there, everything was ok, but nothing was resolved. I think it was the lingering irritation from the fight, that continues to this day. I cannot remember what it was about, but I know it was pretty bad. I am not mad at them, I just think they have no respect for me nor treat me like an adult.
Of course I was dethroned as #1 son once Jack was born. That was fine. A man in his 30s (at the time) does not really need to be treated like a child. Trouble seems to be, though, a man in his 40s does not either.
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Thursday, January 29, 2004
Asthma
My asthma is pretty bad. My lingering cough is almost exactly correlated with my asthma. When I take my Bronkaid the coughs go away, and return 4 hours later, exactly when the pills wear off. The pills have ephedra in them. I winder if there could be some kind of interaction with my adderall. I know it cuts my appetite. I wonder if my Asthma is here to stay, or it will get better like it did when first diagnosed?
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
pick ups
Monday. When asked "whats going on now?" by Nick, I should have said could be anything. I said "Nothing". But I was feeling like crap and would not have had much fun. I had him listed as a P/u style trick only.
Oh well. I have missed chances before, I will again. But honestly the sick feeling was pretty bad.
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Oh well. I have missed chances before, I will again. But honestly the sick feeling was pretty bad.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Posted on Tue, Jan. 27, 2004
Snow facts
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Snow facts
- Duluth has recorded more than 39 inches of snow in January, the third-snowiest January on record and one of the top-10 snowiest months on record.
- Duluth has more than 27 inches of snow on the ground for the first time since March 2001.
- The 70 inches of snow that has fallen so far this season is more than the 56.3 inches that fell all of last winter.
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College Town Blizzard.
I am pretty sure my house at 2 Chester Parkway would have been on the high end of the snowfall.
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Duluth News-Tribune 1/27/04
Snowfall nears record
WINTER STORM:Waves of wind joined with Lake Superior moisture to dump 2 feet of snow on North Shore hilltops.
BY MELANIE EVANS AND JOHN MYERS
NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
If you live on top of the hill and are sick of shoveling or snowblowing, just call a friend who lives down near the lake.
It's possible they didn't even work up a sweat.
A major winter storm combined with wind off Lake Superior to give Duluth more than 2 feet of snow from Sunday into Monday.
The National Weather Service at Duluth International Airport reported 24.8 inches of snow as of 8 p.m. Monday. And the 23.2 inches that fell before 4 p.m. was the third-highest 24-hour snow total on record in Duluth.
Lower-elevation areas -- such as downtown Duluth, Morgan Park and Lakeside -- received only 6 to 8 inches of snow, less than half the hilltop totals.
Areas of Northwestern Wisconsin and north of the Iron Range received even less.
Patti Olson, a Daugherty Hardware & Appliance employee, awoke Monday to 20 inches of snow outside her Rice Lake Township home. The impressive blanket was a pleasant surprise.
"It's just about time we had a normal winter," she said.
Daugherty's owner, Scott Lundberg, barely noticed the dusting at his Poplar home. "I got two inches," he said.
It's not uncommon for the Twin Ports to see significant snow discrepancies because of topography and Lake Superior's unique effect. But it's been so long since we've had a normal winter that many people forget.
All of the Northland received at least some snow as a giant low pressure system moved east across the nation's heartland. But higher elevations from Duluth to Two Harbors and on to Isabella received an extra boost from the lake and elevation effect, ending up with more than 20 inches.
Craig Sanders, a senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Duluth, said the counterclockwise rotation around the low pressure system sent waves of already moist air over Lake Superior and right at Duluth. The lake added additional moisture.
When east winds pushed the air into the hillside, it rose rapidly, and the moisture was squeezed out at the top of the hills as snow. Lots of snow.
"In this case, it's the elevation effect as much as it is the lake effect," Sanders said.
Strong winds piled drifts more than three feet high in upper Woodland, Kenwood and Hermantown. Plows battled all day to keep up.
"I've been dealing with snow since 5 a.m. Lots of shoveling and snowblowing and plowing," said Roger Truscott, who manages the Woodland Avenue Spur adjacent to his home.
"It's a lot of work, and I'm really happy," said Truscott, an outdoor enthusiast who spent Sunday snowmobiling near Finland. "It needs to be like this every year," he said. "If you don't like the snow, there's a place called Florida."
Kathryn Fuller found a dry place to perch while waiting for a Duluth Transit Authority bus at the corner of Woodland and Minneapolis avenues.
The University of Minnesota Duluth reference librarian stood on top of a bus bench to escape a snowbank.
"It isn't much of a bench," she said, after climbing down for fear she would miss her bus. "It's kind of narrow."
The university, Lake Superior College and the College of St. Scholastica closed Monday because of the storm. Fuller ventured out to "get out of the house," she said. "It's beautiful."
The Sunday-Monday storm deposited significantly less than the all-time Duluth snowfalls of 36.9 inches, set Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 1991, and 33.1 inches, set from Dec. 5-7, 1950.
And Monday's heaviest snow was focused in such a small area that the storm didn't pack nearly the broad impact of the 1991 Halloween storm, which dumped more than two feet across all of Minnesota and much of northern Wisconsin.
Monday's snow was lighter than many large dumpings we receive.
But the accumulation caused more than 100 schools and school districts in Minnesota to either cancel or delay classes for Monday, including in Duluth and most of the surrounding towns.
Lake Superior College junior Tom Coles slept instead of studied Monday morning after the snow day postponed a human anatomy quiz.
Coles and Joseph Best, also a Lake Superior College junior, ventured out to buy sleds, and planned to spend the evening watching basketball.
Brothers Garrett and Tim Clemenson built forts in the side yard of their Central Hillside home.
Across Minnesota, snowfall amounts ranged from four inches on the Iron Range and more than six inches in the Twin Cities to more than 16 inches in New York Mills, Ada and Pequot Lakes.
Snow was expected to end overnight in most areas as bitter cold air retakes the region. Highs today will struggle into the single digits above zero and wind chills Tuesday night will hit -30 degrees or lower in some areas.
There's a chance of light snow on Tuesday night, especially along the Ontario border.
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© 2004 Duluth News Tribune and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com
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Duluth News-Tribune 1/27/04
Snowfall nears record
WINTER STORM:Waves of wind joined with Lake Superior moisture to dump 2 feet of snow on North Shore hilltops.
BY MELANIE EVANS AND JOHN MYERS
NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
If you live on top of the hill and are sick of shoveling or snowblowing, just call a friend who lives down near the lake.
It's possible they didn't even work up a sweat.
A major winter storm combined with wind off Lake Superior to give Duluth more than 2 feet of snow from Sunday into Monday.
The National Weather Service at Duluth International Airport reported 24.8 inches of snow as of 8 p.m. Monday. And the 23.2 inches that fell before 4 p.m. was the third-highest 24-hour snow total on record in Duluth.
Lower-elevation areas -- such as downtown Duluth, Morgan Park and Lakeside -- received only 6 to 8 inches of snow, less than half the hilltop totals.
Areas of Northwestern Wisconsin and north of the Iron Range received even less.
Patti Olson, a Daugherty Hardware & Appliance employee, awoke Monday to 20 inches of snow outside her Rice Lake Township home. The impressive blanket was a pleasant surprise.
"It's just about time we had a normal winter," she said.
Daugherty's owner, Scott Lundberg, barely noticed the dusting at his Poplar home. "I got two inches," he said.
It's not uncommon for the Twin Ports to see significant snow discrepancies because of topography and Lake Superior's unique effect. But it's been so long since we've had a normal winter that many people forget.
All of the Northland received at least some snow as a giant low pressure system moved east across the nation's heartland. But higher elevations from Duluth to Two Harbors and on to Isabella received an extra boost from the lake and elevation effect, ending up with more than 20 inches.
Craig Sanders, a senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Duluth, said the counterclockwise rotation around the low pressure system sent waves of already moist air over Lake Superior and right at Duluth. The lake added additional moisture.
When east winds pushed the air into the hillside, it rose rapidly, and the moisture was squeezed out at the top of the hills as snow. Lots of snow.
"In this case, it's the elevation effect as much as it is the lake effect," Sanders said.
Strong winds piled drifts more than three feet high in upper Woodland, Kenwood and Hermantown. Plows battled all day to keep up.
"I've been dealing with snow since 5 a.m. Lots of shoveling and snowblowing and plowing," said Roger Truscott, who manages the Woodland Avenue Spur adjacent to his home.
"It's a lot of work, and I'm really happy," said Truscott, an outdoor enthusiast who spent Sunday snowmobiling near Finland. "It needs to be like this every year," he said. "If you don't like the snow, there's a place called Florida."
Kathryn Fuller found a dry place to perch while waiting for a Duluth Transit Authority bus at the corner of Woodland and Minneapolis avenues.
The University of Minnesota Duluth reference librarian stood on top of a bus bench to escape a snowbank.
"It isn't much of a bench," she said, after climbing down for fear she would miss her bus. "It's kind of narrow."
The university, Lake Superior College and the College of St. Scholastica closed Monday because of the storm. Fuller ventured out to "get out of the house," she said. "It's beautiful."
The Sunday-Monday storm deposited significantly less than the all-time Duluth snowfalls of 36.9 inches, set Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 1991, and 33.1 inches, set from Dec. 5-7, 1950.
And Monday's heaviest snow was focused in such a small area that the storm didn't pack nearly the broad impact of the 1991 Halloween storm, which dumped more than two feet across all of Minnesota and much of northern Wisconsin.
Monday's snow was lighter than many large dumpings we receive.
But the accumulation caused more than 100 schools and school districts in Minnesota to either cancel or delay classes for Monday, including in Duluth and most of the surrounding towns.
Lake Superior College junior Tom Coles slept instead of studied Monday morning after the snow day postponed a human anatomy quiz.
Coles and Joseph Best, also a Lake Superior College junior, ventured out to buy sleds, and planned to spend the evening watching basketball.
Brothers Garrett and Tim Clemenson built forts in the side yard of their Central Hillside home.
Across Minnesota, snowfall amounts ranged from four inches on the Iron Range and more than six inches in the Twin Cities to more than 16 inches in New York Mills, Ada and Pequot Lakes.
Snow was expected to end overnight in most areas as bitter cold air retakes the region. Highs today will struggle into the single digits above zero and wind chills Tuesday night will hit -30 degrees or lower in some areas.
There's a chance of light snow on Tuesday night, especially along the Ontario border.
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© 2004 Duluth News Tribune and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com
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Palm Springs
Joel asked if I wanted to go to Palm Springs this weekend.
I said not enough notice, but normally yes
and said "that the only dream location I have left"
hint hint
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I said not enough notice, but normally yes
and said "that the only dream location I have left"
hint hint
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Monday, January 26, 2004
My order was shipped on January 26, 2004
Depending upon availability, items shipped via Standard Delivery arrive within 3-8 business days.
So possibly as early as Thursday, I could be learning my Latin. Or as late as next Tuesday.
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So possibly as early as Thursday, I could be learning my Latin. Or as late as next Tuesday.
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