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I am so ready for Spring to finally get here. The cold weather and snow is enough already. I like being able to go outside in a sweatshirt and be comfortable. Now we have to bundle up like eskimo's and it gets a little uncomfortable. Blah Blah Blah snow go away.

 

Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age

11.01.2009 Source: Pravda Ru

 

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacial’s, each lasting about 12,000 years.

Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacial’s.

Elements of the astronomical theory of Ice Age causation were first presented by the French mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842, it was developed further by the English prodigy Joseph Croll in 1875, and the theory was established in its present form by the Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovich in the 1920s and 30s. In 1976 the prestigious journal “Science” published a landmark paper by John Imbrie, James Hays, and Nicholas Shackleton entitled “Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” which described the correlation which the trio of scientist/authors had found between the climate data obtained from ocean sediment cores and the patterns of the astronomical Milankovich cycles. Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists, and hence the Milankovich theory is always described in textbooks of climatology and in encyclopedia articles about the Ice Ages.

In their 1976 paper Imbrie, Hays, and Shackleton wrote that their own climate forecasts, which were based on sea-sediment cores and the Milankovich cycles, "… must be qualified in two ways. First, they apply only to the natural component of future climatic trends - and not to anthropogenic effects such as those due to the burning of fossil fuels. Second, they describe only the long-term trends, because they are linked to orbital variations with periods of 20,000 years and longer. Climatic oscillations at higher frequencies are not predicted... the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate."

During the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that ‘greenhouse gasses’ such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming. Since the 1970s the theory of ‘anthropogenic global warming’ (AGW) has gradually become accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and their acceptance of AGW has inspired a global movement to encourage governments to make pivotal changes to prevent the worsening of AGW.

The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.

The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years -- evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacial’s.

In 1999 the British journal “Nature” published the results of data derived from glacial ice cores collected at the Russia ’s Vostok station in Antarctica during the 1990s. The Vostok ice core data includes a record of global atmospheric temperatures, atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and airborne particulates starting from 420,000 years ago and continuing through history up to our present time.

The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacial’s occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.

The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their ‘fizz’, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Because the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earth’s temperature, we should expect to see global CO2 levels continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earth’s current Interglacial warm period. We should already be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the world’s oceans.

The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels which they are at today.

About 325,000 years ago, at the peak of a warm interglacial, global temperature and CO2 levels were higher than they are today. Today we are again at the peak, and near to the end, of a warm interglacial, and the earth is now due to enter the next Ice Age. If we are lucky, we may have a few years to prepare for it. The Ice Age will return, as it always has, in its regular and natural cycle, with or without any influence from the effects of AGW.

The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.

Gregory F. Fegel

Ben if you want to melt your snow but not hurt your grass or drive, use Nitrogen pellets.This will melt your snow and ice and will fertalize your lawn for spring.

Does anyone know how to put an event closing on the television if the weathr is to bad.

I do an event with about 1500 kids on Saturday at local schools and if the weather is bad we would need to cancel. 

 

I am looking at how to broadcast on a television channel

RAGE

AHHHHH

We have a gas fire place at the house that we love and cherish. It warms up the living room on the cold winter nights. It's nice because the flame turns on with a flick of a switch and there's no messing around with an axe pieces of wood.

For christmas my parents wanted to treat themselves to something nice: a smaller electric fireplace for the basement. My mother wanted it to heat up the basement while she's down there washing and folding closes or some other motherly buissnes they get into.

The dam thing cost three hundred bucs and can't heat up anything. It looks nice but is totaly incompeteint. The high priced gewgaw now sits in the dinning room. I was afraid to look at were it was made. Probably some tropical paradise in south asia where they have no idea what it takes to fight a great lakes winter. 

This is only one component of my uncontrolable rage.

Over the past month two of my friends have been roofied. 

May god have mercy on this planet because I've got enough rage built up to blast a rocket to the moon.      

In north Rochester, there has been a power outage for 9 days!!!! The power people still have not fixed it. And on Rochester Road only 12 houses get power outage. People have noot been able to celebrate the holidays comfortably with their families it is not fair. DTE or whoever does the power needs to fix it quick and make sure it does not happen as often.

Ben, I would like to know if  you think we will have an early Spring .  I seen 3 robins already.  On monday morning, when I took  my sister to the doctor at fairlane medical  officeson hubbard drive.

 

My family had been shopping a little here and there, but as money was available, we'd buy another thing on the Christmas list, but no way were we even close to being done.

Then the big snowfall hit up here, with over a foot of snow, blowing winds, and we were not able to leave the house to go anywhere.  The driveway had drifted even higher with snow.

Went out to start the lawn tractor with the plow on it.  The engine was worked on earlier this year, so I didn't figure we'd have any problems.  Wrong.   

The engine started turning, tractor trying to start, but all of a sudden the engine froze. 
No, it wasn't the battery, no it wasn't the spark plugs.  It's just frozen. 

Driveway is over 100 feet long.  Husband went out and with snow shovel that day, and started digging us out.  But it still drifted and it was snowing and just kept filling back up.

So, we didn't get out on Saturday, but by Sunday afternoon, between my husband and son, digging us out by snow shovel, we headed to the local big hardware store, and grudgingly bought a new tractor.  Didn't get a plow, we already had one, right?

The store couldn't deliver it that day, so we had to wait for a Monday delivery on the  new lawn tractor.  Finally in the afternoon ( in the meanwhile, the driveway filled back up with snow drifts) the delivery men showed up with the new lawn tractor.  Cool!  We've got it made now!   We can just take the plow off the old tractor, put it on the new one, put some gas in the new tractor and go!  Good thing too, because hubby's shoulders are sore, his metal plate in his ankle is killing him, and I'd broken my knee last year, and the digging and trudging in the deep snow was getting to me, too. 

Hubby thanked the delivery men after they unloaded and the men left. 
Hubby tried the key.  Nothing... 
Oh of course, he thinks to himself, I forgot to put the gas in it.

The new tractor is at the head of the driveway near the road, the gas can way up here by the house.  So, while he's taking the plow off of the old tractor, I'm gassing up the new one with the gas can.  Still nothing. 

Re-read the instruction manual, yep, everything is where it should be, (switches, controls, etc)  Hubby checks  battery in newly delivered tractor.  It's dead.  Can't jump it, the driveway is full of very deep snow drifts, can't get a car down there.

Hubby trudges back up the driveway, and takes the battery out of the old tractor (new battery) and with ice cold wrenches and tools, he changes out the batteries. 

Son and hubby drag the snow chains, the wheel weights, and the snow plow down to the new tractor. 

Seems the manufacturer changed the way the plow attaches, even though the store told us our old plow should easily snap on.   

Hubby and son and myself end up digging out the driveway (again).  No time to shop, no way to get there, Son discovered his vehicle has a flat tire in the driveway, so he can't go anywhere to shop, even if we are dug out.

So, here it is, 2 days before Christmas, son knows what he's getting for Christmas, he picked it out.  The packages we were planning on sending out of state, once we got things wrapped,  are still here.  Everyone is tired, stressed, we didn't even put a tree up.
House is a wreck, and right now, us folks in Michigan are under another severe weather alert.

Oh, and the plow?  I ended up buying a new one today, no choice.  No one had a conversion kit to allow out old plow to fit on the new tractor. 

But I'm a bit more relaxed now that I know the tractor will start, and I can plow us out.

The Christmas List will have to wait until AFTER Christmas.

when will the news casters ever LEARN to tell the black  Peoples what there skin look like at the time of frost bite.???? WELL its not  Pale....

 

I have had a copy of this pic for awhile but it does fit today

12/19/2008 5:41PM

A blitz of snow hit the regions roads and driveways. Luckily we saw it coming and shut down all of the school districts beforehand. The anticipated snowstorm slowed businesses, hampered traffic and forced the cancellation of community and school activities.

Local police radios this morning crackled with reports of slipping, sliding and minor accidents, as motorists experienced the first effects of the storm.

Blizzard 08

 

I have to thank our reporter in the field, lincoln, for battling the wheather and getting us the shot.  

 

 

 Traffic was light, but the snow was coming down so hard in some areas that the plows couldn't keep up. And visibility was pretty poor in most areas, motorists reported.

Difficulties already had begun at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and other places, as the snowstorm moved toward Buffalo.

The storm left thick ice in central Illinois, where up to 14 inches of snow was expected and 38,000 customers were without power. Ice and freezing rain had knocked out power to about 64,000 homes and businesses in northern Indiana, where some roads resembled ice rinks.

Buffalo's Central Library and city branches were open and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Holiday Pops concert was still on.

this is a pic of cars buy my house and this is how bad it is by me be stafe when you go out there???????????????????

this is a pic of cars buy my house and this is how bad it is by me be stafe when you go out there???????????????????

Send me how much snow you have where YOU live.... HOW MUCH!!!!!????

I need town / time / inches.

GOOD LUCK and Happy Shoveling!

Rich

I don't mind the winters. I left my college home of Florida when I had a perfectly good opportunity to stay (job and weather) to come back home to Detroit, but yesterday I have to definitely say out of the coldest days in Detroit, it was FRICKING FREEZING!

I try not to complain about the weather especially in Michigan because the saying really is true, if you want it to change just wait a minute. I think out of all the midwestern cities, Detroit has one of the most versitile weather patterns. One must be half crazy to say, "I want to be a Detroit weather person" because you might have a better time convincing others you want to be a professional liar.

There wasn't only the temperature, but the wind chill that just dried up the skin like the sahara desert. On top of that nature had the nerve to make it a clear afternoon from the mornings torrential cold rain, so one had to actually go outside to actually know what the real deal was.

Mother Nature had to have been upset because she was not playing around or Jack Frost got out of his cage early and sneaked past the cold mizer brother. Either way that wind whipped about even crystalizing the moisture in the air.

By and by I found the whole thing fasinating, hence that's just another thing I love about the city.

 

 

Over 650 Scientists Challenge Global Warming "Consensus"
Twelve times more than those that put their names to the IPCC report

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008

Over 650 scientists have put their names to a US Senate Minority report that challenges the contention of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change that there is a scientific "consensus" on the causes of global warming.

Set to be released within the next 24 hours, the report features contributions from hundreds of prominent researchers, including current and former IPCC scientists, who are now speaking out in opposition of the UN's stance on climate change.

The Senate report is an updated version of a 2007 release, with over 250 more names added, highlighting how widespread dissent continues to grow in the scientific community to the alleged “consensus” that the modern warming is primarily man-made and is a crisis.

In comparison, twelve times fewer - just 52 scientists - participated in the much touted IPCC Summary for Policymakers meeting in April 2007. Climate scientists allied with the IPCC were recently caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating.

The new Senate report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears.

Of course the fact that the establishment likes to engage in regular mass public deception by claiming the debate about global warming is over and any dissent is tantamount to holocaust denial doesn't bode well for potential media coverage of the report, unlike the ongoing UN climate conference in Poznan which is being lavished with endless media attention about the need for a global carbon tax to save the planet from the evils of plant food (CO2).

The self-proclaimed "consensus" behind man-made global warming is one enforced by threats, intimidation and ignorance, as highlighted by media coverage of last year's UN meeting in Bali, where skeptical climate scientists were shunned and ignored for daring to express an opposing viewpoint.

Following the Bali resolution to impose a global carbon tax, over one hundred prominent scientists signed a letter dismissing the move as a futile bureaucratic scheme which would diminish prosperity and increase human suffering.

Hundreds more skeptical scientists met in Manhattan last February at the first International Conference on Climate Change to discuss the side of the climate change debate that the establishment media prefers to pretend does not exist.

Did the mainstream media even acknowledge these events? Not at all, because they challenge the sacred cow that scientists uniformly agree on man-made global warming.

As we have previously reported, less than half of all published scientists endorse what has been dubbed the "consensus view".

However, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday vowed to end global warming "denial".

The following quotes, listed on the website of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, provide a taster of what will be contained in the upcoming Senate report:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. # #

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I just wanted to say, how much I love Ben Bailey. I think he is such a cute.

Yea, it's Sunday and the sun is shinning who could ask for anything more? Enjoy the day!

I know that some may have seen this before but it holds so much truth that it is hilariously funny. I hope you enjoy it and share some of your experiences.

Diary of a Snow Shoveler...

December 8 - 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9 - We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.

December 12 - The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. l don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.

December 14 - Snow lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish l wouldn't huff and puff so.

December 15 - 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.

December 16 - Ice storm this morning. Fell on my butt on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like he**. The wife laughed for an hour, Which I think was very cruel.

December 17 - Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.

December 20 - Electricity's back on, but had another 14" of the dam* stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. The dam* snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.

December 22 - Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the dam* white stuff fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to run to the bathroom. By the time I got undressed, and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think the bum is lying.

December 23 - Only 2" of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she nuts!!! Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying.

December 24 - 6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the sob who drives that snow plow I'll drag him through the snow and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish
shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the dam* snowplow.

December 25 - Merry dam* Christmas! 20 more inches of the dam* slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil, dam* I hate the snow!
Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s a freaking idiot. If I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.

December 26 - Still snowed in. Why the he** did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.

December 27 - Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze, plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him, he only charged me $1,400 to replace the pipes.

December 28 - Warmed up to above -20. Still snowed in. She's driving me crazy!!!

December 29 - 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30 - Roof caved in. I beat up the snow plow driver, he is now suing me for a million dollars, not

only for the beating I gave him but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel where it doesn't belong. The wife went home to her mother. 9" predicted.

December 31 - I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8 - Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?