Comments on: Happy Friday :)

By: camojack

camojack — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:07:33 +0000

That wasn't the real Punxsutawney Phil; he's dead...

By: sanity

sanity — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:20:12 +0000

Here in Detroit, in the first part of February, they are having to blow/make snow for winter activities for hte Superbowl.

btw high today was 41 with light rain.

By: blogagog

blogagog — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:13:41 +0000

ST, please omit your local temps in posts during winter months.

I won’t give temps, but down in Looooosiana, we’ve got the air-conditioner on. Being from Jersey, I never thought I would like living in the South. I’m happy to say that I was very wrong

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:51:09 +0000

Sis, just because you have to live your life doesn’t mean that you can just leave your loyal readers hanging, without your words of wisdom to guide us through the day!

And Bachbone, of course Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow! I live in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, not that far away, and it was cloudy here at the time Punxatawney Phil makes his forecast. But there are so many freaking television lights there that he’d see his shadow even during a total eclipse.

Besides, with a January that was 8.4ÂºF above normal in Pennsylvania, the groundhog’s prediction ain’t all that dire.

By: scmommy

scmommy — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:53:10 +0000

ST – sounds like you are pretty much settled in!

Sorry, Bachbone, that it’s so yucky up there. Its a beautiful 74 here in Charleston – leaving work early to swing by the beach on the way home!

By: Bachbone

Bachbone — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:26:45 +0000

ST, please omit your local temps in posts during winter months. It’s 32 degrees here, rain, sleet and snow are all around me, and Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow yesterday! Thanguvurymuch!

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:10:17 +0000

Locally (a major Florida city) unemployment is hovering around 3%, which effectively means that everyone who wants to work has a job. Several business owners I know complain that it’s just about impossible to find help, ads go unanswered.

On the flip side, notice how your service is at a lot of places? Poor? That’s one side effect of a full employment economy, the people who do the more mundane jobs are usually the people with poor attitudes who can’t get better jobs. When jobs are tight, you get a better quality of help. I heard a commentator on NPR a few weeks ago characterizing the economy by using what he called the BBI, Bad Barrista Index. His rational was that the worse the service at Starbucks, the better the economy was doing.

By: Jim M

Jim M — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:08:06 +0000

Putting together furniture and hanging pictures! A moment of silence will be observed with heads bowed. Other than putting together furniture hope you are having a great day at home. Sounds like you getting settled in, usually I find after moving pictures are one of the last things to get done. Great day here to 66 degrees just had to drive my Vette to work.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:58:42 +0000

Associated Press

– Employers stepped up hiring in January, boosting payrolls by 193,000 and lowering the nation’s unemployment rate to 4.7 percent, the lowest since July 2001.

– For all of 2005, factory orders rose 8.1 percent. That followed a gain of 9.7 percent in 2004.

By: Severian

Severian — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:46:48 +0000

Assembling furniture? AAAARGH! The dreaded Ikea syndrome!

Man, I’ve put together enough bookcases, tables, and entertainment centers in my life that I am allergic to particleboard.

Anyway, good luck with it ST, and hope you’re enjoying your new place!