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June 25, 2005
You know you're living in 2005 when...
A friend e-mailed this to me today and I thought I would share it here.
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
13. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
14. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
15. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
17. You're reading this and nodding and laughing
18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
19. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
20. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
AND NOW YOU'RE LAUGHING at yourself. Go on, forward this to your friends. You know you want to!!
Posted by Chris at 08:59 PM
June 11, 2005
Upcoming vacation thoughts
Today I finalized my vacation plans for my upcoming vacation in July. I wanted to go to the beach but I was torn between Panama City Beach and the Alabama Gulf Coast. Decisions are hard...after asking my dad for advice he suggested somewhere totally different, Destin, Florida. I decided on Panama City Beach. Now for the question of where to stay..I wasn't concerned too much about the cost since I will only be there for two nights (the people going with me can only go for two nights). I went to the website of Long Beach Resort, where I stayed last time and they were all booked up, so I went hunting on the internet. I came across one I've never heard before, called Boardwalk Central, on hotels.com. Come to find out, this is a brand new condo building that opened on Memorial Day Weekend. And the price wasn't too bad (a one bedroom condo for $219 a night). I went and reserved it so it is a done deal.
One reason I didn't go back to the Alabama Gulf Coast is that a friend who recently went down there told me that there is still a good bit that is still closed due to Hurricane Ivan. I went online today and looked up some info on the condo I stayed down there that was devistated by Ivan, Pelican Pointe. I went to Meyer Real Estate's website and found some picture of the restoration of the building. Let's do another comparison like I did back in October:
Before Hurricane Ivan October 2003:
After Hurricane Ivan September 2004:
Restoration Progress as of April 2005:
Posted by Chris at 05:27 PM
June 09, 2005
Look Familiar??
I went through my archives and found a post from last September when I posted an image of the projected path of Hurricane Ivan. Compare that image (on the left) to the current projected path of TD One (right)
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Posted by Chris at 06:13 AM
June 08, 2005
One Week in and...
We are only one week into the Atlantic hurricane season and there is already a tropical depression in the Caribbean that is headed into the Gulf of Mexico. The current path takes it to the Alabama/Mississippi border. This brings back memories of Hurricane Ivan last year. A friend went down there about a month ago (to Gulf Shores, AL) and they are still cleaning up from last September's hurricane. This would be a tropical storm at most when it made landfall so we don't have to worry too much from the wind..it is the torrential rain it will bring. Here is the full text from the National Hurricane Center:
From ABC 33/40 E-Warn :
WTNT31 KNHC 082059
TCPAT1
BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE ADVISORY NUMBER 1
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT WED JUN 08 2005
...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS IN THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN...
AT 5 PM EDT...2100Z...THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL
STORM WATCH FOR WESTERN CUBA FOR THE PROVINCE OF PINAR DEL RIO AND
THE ISLE OF YOUTH.
INTERESTS IN THE NORTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE
PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED
BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.
AT 5 PM EDT...2100Z...THE POORLY-DEFINED CENTER OF TROPICAL
DEPRESSION ONE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 17.2 NORTH... LONGITUDE
84.0 WEST OR ABOUT 235 MILES... 375 KM... SOUTHWEST OF GRAND CAYMAN
AND ABOUT 315 MILES... 510 KM...SOUTH OF THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA.
THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWARD AS IT ORGANIZES...BUT IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH NEAR 7 MPH...11 KM/HR
TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 30 MPH... 45 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS...MAINLY IN RAINBANDS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF THE CENTER.
SOME STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST...AND THE DEPRESSION HAS THE
POTENTIAL TO BECOME A TROPICAL STORM DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE MEASURED BY A RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT
WAS 1004 MB...29.65 INCHES.
HEAVY RAINFALL...ACCOMPANIED BY SQUALLS...SHOULD BEGIN TO SPREAD
ACROSS THE CAYMAN ISLANDS AND WESTERN CUBA TONIGHT AND THURSDAY.
REPEATING THE 5 PM EDT POSITION...17.2 N... 84.0 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...NORTH NEAR 7 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 30 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1004 MB.
AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER AT 8 PM EDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 11 PM
EDT.
FORECASTER KNABB/AVILA
$$
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Posted by Chris at 08:50 PM