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Nobody made you shovel. If the wind is blowing hard enough to drive the windchill to -35, you could have waited for the snow to blow away.
Global warming! Science is settled ! Al Gore was right!! Polar bears … dying…
If the lad is old enough for wrestling, he’s old enough for shoveling.
That’s what my Dad said anyway…along with, “it builds character”.
Dear old Dad loved building my character.
Too bad you couldn’t have held out a day (b’day). There’s something special, cute and cuddly about ground hog babies.
What did the armadillo get you for your birthday?
frostbite.
I hope the rest of the day is a good one, Jeff, and that in the event that you do have to have those frostbitten top parts of the ear removed, that you are able to anaesthetize yourself with some fairly tasty single-malt.
I swear I composed that before your comment that immediately preceded it.
Happy Birthday, Jeff. And also a Happy Birthday to my ma.
I like that you shoveled, instead of using one of those horrible gas-powered snow-throwers. If there were more people like you, dedicated to preserving Mother Earth, we wouldn’t have this horrible global warming on our hands right now.
It’s a toasty 17° here in SLC, the sun is shining, and the ground is bare.
Sometimes there are advantages to being west of the Rockies, primary among them the lack of tornados, freezing rain, and not being the favored meetingplace of Canadian air and Gulf moisture.
LBascom sez:
I don’t want to build character. I want to buy it prefabricated.
Rub some snow on the bitten bits.
This is what happens when you pick fights with a certified weather control expert like Jake Shannon.
Wow.
Some of y’all are really screwed.
brr
65 and sunny in beautiful downtown San Clemente. Too bad the state’s going tits up….
A trip to the DMV for your birthday? Was the proctologist booked? Dentist on vacation? TV stuck on MSNBC?
Hey, happy birthday, Jeff.
If you keep all your fingers and toes, it’s a sign of good luck for the rest of the year!
Smart power. Maybe someone needs to remind Juliet that failshit America needs Indian students way way more than Indian students need failshit America.
and if you don’t, at least you’ll be able to detect an incoming cold front by the ache in your phantom digits…
to say nothing about fake universities
See, it’s all good.
They say we’re supposed to get a foot of snow here. I think they’re bluffing.
Happy birthday! May you find insight along the Golden Path!
They say we’re going to get up to 2-3 feet of snow here, maybe more, depending on where the “thunder snow” hits… which no one has ever heard of before.
I like that you shoveled, instead of using one of those horrible gas-powered snow-throwers. If there were more people like you, dedicated to preserving Mother Earth, we wouldn’t have this horrible global warming on our hands right now.
Actually, a good easy way to clear the snow is to get a bunch of old tires, line ’em up and fill them with diesel and then light up on fire and watch the snow melt. The black smoke lets your neighbors know that a man of genius resides in their community.
Happy Birthday.
Happy birthday, Jeff!
Happy b’day Jeff. Fire up an engine and grab a chunk of a purse. New car!
Happy Birthday, Jeff!
NSF your ears.
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
hah this is cute
Nothing quite says “Happy Birthday” like shoveling a couple of feet of snow in below zero weather.
Since my birthday is early November, I generally was able to avoid shoveling snow in cold weather* during my stay in Minnesota.
Generally.
*In MN, “cold weather” is defined as temperatures below, say, 10 degrees.
So, I feel for ya, glad I don’t do have to do that any more and, of course, Happy Birthday, Jeff.
Happy Birthday Jeff.
May God grant you many years, many blessed years.
You don’t have lackeys?
Happy birthday, Mr Goldstein.
You’er talking about degrees Kelvin, right Blake?
I beg to differ, Blake. I consider temperatures below 10 degrees to qualify as “damn cold.” “Cold” is for, say, 10-20 degrees, after which “brisk” kicks in. When it gets into the negatives, perhaps with the wind blowing, “fucking cold” is how I would characterize things.
Naturally, this depends on your selection of apparel.
Brrr. I’d recommend wearing a house.
Di….I am one of those ” so screwed ” folks. I hate you!!!
Happy Birthday Jeff!! May you enjoy many more
8 inches as I type this, with a larger storm coming in tomorrow. Already did the roof of the shop (yesterday) dreading doing the house roof. I may just hire someone for that, as I despise ladders.
HEY!! I just created a job!! That’s plus one for me, so I beat Obambi this year!!
Happy birthday, Jeff!
Entropy,
I grew up in southern Florida and have slept through hurricanes. The closest I ever came to getting struck by lightning was during a snow storm in Massachusetts when I parked our catering truck next to a lamp post. All of the sudden, we could hear a buzzing sound, the hair all over my body stood up, and then, SMACK! The lamp post got fried. That sucked more than a little bit.
Fer FUCKS sake feets, you bring politics into a Birthday blog? I’ll repeat a wiser commenter than me, forget who…
Get your own fucking blog.
Sounds like we’ll get a couple feet here with some decent winds.
Guy across the street is traveling and his wife is pregnant. Sucks for her! (I kid, I kid.)
Lola Cain: “You really are incredibly stupid, aren’t you? I like that in a man.”
— Fatal Instinct
I said brr what more is there to say really I hadn’t heard about the story about the Indian students yet and I thought I’d share I’m so sorry if it upset you Blitz I can see now how upsetting it must have been but at the time I made the commenting you have to believe me I didn’t realize it would be so upsetting
This is why I love AAA. I just renewed my license a while back, complete with an eye test. The time I left my house to the time I got back home was 10 minutes.
Happy birthday, Jeff!
See that little pink state up in New England? This is me waving from there. We’re running out of places to put this shit. I think I’m gonna have to put a lift kit on the snowblower.
Is the pink part from mixing blood with the snow?
Astrologically related: Clark Gable, Brandon Lee, Boris Yeltsin, Pauly Shore.
Don’t you go giving me any ideas, sdferr.
Many happy returns to you JeffG, and may you have at least as many more happy birthdays ahead of you as you have already put behind.
And as to what has become this winter the Sisyphean task of shoveling? Well, where are all those flying monkeys I’ve heard you have that normally do your bidding? Were they grounded by weather conditions or something? You should really teach them to do it the FLY NAVY! way…
And by that I’m referring to all weather operation, of course. I mean, I assume they have the extra-curricular-activities part down pat already; courtesy of their training at the hands of Armadillo DI*
*Debauchery Instructor
My Regards
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Now you have been to the traditional Happy Birthday dinner at the local Japanese restaurant without those annoying calories. Owned by Filipinos, natch. The accent, however, is universally the same.
CLICK!
Damn almost forgot the photograph and little buddha cupcake.
I and over an inch of ice on my car this morning, and had a 3 hour drive ahead of me. It took 7. and now the weather idiot tells me that we could get between 12-18 inches of algore tonight.
Happy Birthday Jeff!
Currently 72 in Honolulu. Probably go up to around 80 or so later.
Your mountains are nicer, if that helps.
Algore ain’t got 12-18 inches to give. Oh, wait. 1.2-1.8 – you forgot the decimal points, carry on.
Mother Earth OTOH can slap you upside the head something awful.
Stephanie – didnt that massage therapist say it was 2 inches and 17 seconds of heaven?
Why yes she did. LOL
Pablo? Framingham here. 8 inches and still snowing hard. Lift kit on a snowblower? come to my shop (Ashland)….we can do that!!
And some of y’all took me to task for saying how much I hates the snow.
Played 18 on Saturday. It was 68 degrees, “severe clear,” and the course was packed (played like shit). Today, 42 degrees, rain and massive fog. And I have to go to the club and wait for HS golf practice to finish. There is no such thing as a rain/snow day in HS golf. Thank God the bar is open.
Lift kit on a snowblower…
That’s a great line Pablo!
I hate Stephanie. In a very loving kind of way.
Cranky, re your # 36… My granddaddy used to say ” There ain’t no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes”…
Then we went out and shot seagulls, but that’s another story…
Mwah! Kisses. In a sister/brother hang together against the adults and put a frog in your bed kinda way.
On Thursday I plan on playing behind them. It’s expected to be 43 and partly sunny. Think I’ll take the cart cover and heater. And hit the bar before I play. And after. They have to walk. Snerk.
12 to 18 inches of Al Gore tonight?
If that’s true, in the future shouldn’t he be referred to as Al “Mandingo” Gore?
DENOUNCED!
Happy escape-from-your-mother’s-womb day, Sir Jeff.
Sorry to hear about the snow, though. I’ll go drive my big polluting SUV around for a while and get right on that AGW so we never have snow again.
Happy Birthday, Jeff. I trust it will be improving!
Blitz, we probably got about 6 inches and now we’re getting freezing rain. I have mixed emotions.
that’s very very impressive what’s the catch I don’t get it. If this is for reals it can’t but help to put pressure on California to follow suit, no?
I don’t get it.
Jeff, I sent you a birthday present. Did the Hobo Express truck drop him off yet?
Please! Minions is the preferred term around here. But we don’t do snow, it’s not in the contract.
Happy B’day Jeff! We’ll try to send a little warm weather your way from down here on the Rio Grande. The way the wind is blowing it ought to be there in an hour or two….
Well happyfeet,
It’s been said in the past, “That only Nixon could go to China”; in that same way, only a Democrat could cutback on public employees and entitlement spending.
Cuomo, who I didn’t support in the past election, is walking a fine line. But to his advantage the NY state assembly is almost evenly divided, so he may be able to count on signifigant Rethug! support for this measure. It only cuts the deficit by 1/4, but that’s a good start.
In my opinion, he’s postitioning himself as a defecit hawk in order to enhance his national standing, and achieve what his silver-tongued daddy never could; a chance to run as the Democrat’s nominee for Prez one day soon. And, maybe he thinks he can woo tea-party voters by these manuevers. Who knows.
In my opinion Mr. Obama should be paying attention to what he’s doing, and try and emulate it.
But he won’t. Ol’ Andy C. will definitely be on the outs with the
overt communistspublic employees unions and progressive left for this heresey, and that may ultimately work against him.On the “other bad weather” front, Cyclone Yasi, nasty.
yes… but what’s hopeful is that it might encourage california to hold the line on the taxings… it’s too late for Illinois
Cold weather shoveling builds character…or at least is good practice for the end times when the survivors will be digging for non perishable food items in the rubble.
Happy Birthday.
Cranky, well, more than likely, I’d agree with your assessment of cold weather these days.
I used to cross country ski in -10 weather. 25 years ago or so.
Which, I’m sure, skewed my views about what constitutes cold weather.
With the right clothing, I could see doing that. I would want a full snow suit and a full-face cover, though. That might be warm enough. Maybe.
Happy Birthday, Jeff.
Hope the picture came out fine.
I get all my minions from HenchPersons-R-Us, because they supply uniforms and weapons for a flat fee.
What, you had to renew your license on the oneth of February? You couldn’t have just gotten it done sometime before the
29th28th?I just go down to Home Depot.
Hell, they don’t care what’s in the hole when they’re filling it in.
Pffft!
Happy effin birtday, ya bum. You chose to live in Colorado so quit yer bitchin bout the snow.
I’m three miles from downtown KC. We’re at 12″ as of 9:30 and it’s supposed to snow for a couple more hours. That’s on top of a film of freezing drizzle from last night.
Since Kansas City’s normal approach to snow is to plow a few main streets and wait for it to melt elsewhere, I may yet get to fire up the tractor and try out the front end loader.
The meteorological prognostication called for 2 – 4 inches of snow. We got 6.
Snowplow? WTF is that?
11F, says the NWS. S’posed to go to 8, but it’s only 10 PM and the sky’s got that brittle clarity you get on nights when it’s gonna get the brass monkeys in faux-fur jockstraps. Thank God I’ve got propane for a little while.
Happy Birthday, Jeff, if a little late in the day… mine’s Thursday. I may get “above freezing”, won’t that be nice.
Regards,
Ric
Well, Jeff, as someone who shares your birthday, I got lucky. While Plano is getting temps in the teens and wind chill around 0, I am in San Diego all week conducting field tests with the Marines. This included a few rounds of artillery this afternoon close enough to shake the dust out of the corners of the “field system shelter” we’re running the computers in.
I was riding my mountain bike up to 4000′ in the mountains behind Santa Barbara last week and after 5PM it dipped into the 60’s so I put an Under Armor type shirt on under my tee shirt on for the downhill run back into town (sea level). what an inconvenience that was… that shirt got hot during happy hour
Here in metro Atlanta it was cloudy and blah, when it wasn’t drizzling.
I’d take a snow day over that anytime, provided I didn’t have to share it with a bunch of snow-ignorant Southerners.
I hate drizzle. Fo shizzle
Happy…
…
Jack.
Its currently 12 degrees C here in Japan on the 2nd of Feb at 2034 hours – Belated Birthday wishes there Jeff
Happy birthday, Jeff!
“Until 120,” as we say in the Tribe.