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Phil Skips Stones Across the Pond of Life
Phillip Dampier:
We've got another five weekdays of potential power cuts here during the daytime. It is really starting to cut into my time spent on the site here and reducing the time I can spend answering messages and writing articles. I'll be very glad when they are done messing with the electrical facilities. I was watching them last week and they are literally up on the top of the power poles taking a sledgehammer to those wooden branch-offs that they can hang wires on either side of the pole on.
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It took them around six hours to knock off three of those off the poles, and cut the old power lines connected to them, tear off the old insulators and hardware, toss it on the ground, and then install new hardware and get the newly-strung power cables ready to go live. They have another 18 or so to go, and they turn the power off to the street while they are working on it.
What a mess.
Phillip Dampier:
Spring is getting to be late here in western New York. It's still only around freezing and the sun is once again not out as much as it should be. I've been physically exhausted the last couple of days. I used to be able to be on here until 1-2am, but lately I'm barely making it to 11pm. Since I work from home, I normally attend to the forums and such during the day, but with the power issues that has gotten to be more difficult.
Today I was just physically blah. Headache earlier and just tired overall. Who knows why.
John is working on the chat room module, which is a few weeks late now. We decided to go with one not specifically written to work with this forum software, but it should still work okay. A change to the server needs to be made to allow it to be installed. It should pick up your existing handles when you enter the chat room. Otherwise it will be fairly self-explanatory.
I'm also putting up a Paypal donation link to help us defray some of the costs behind this site. I'd like to consider expanding Brokeback Mountain Radio to have three times the size of the playlist (to around 10-11 hours instead of the current three), but the cost will average $30 a month for that, and we'd need contributions to carry that forward. Inevitably, I am going to find some volunteer "DJ" types who I can bring together as a team so we can work on updating and freshening the service together instead of waiting for me to update the playlist every week or so. I'm a big believer in delegating things for the betterment of everyone.
I've noticing the continued trend of forum activity dropping off on most of the Brokeback Mountain forums. When the DVD comes out, that will probably change again.
Peter John Shields:
Hi Philip,
It is the opposite here - Summer is still here in Melbourne, Australia. It is Summer here from October/November through to March/April - so we have a couple more weeks of warm weather to go. I have been really tired too - I think it might be too much sun,
Stripey (Peter)
Peter John Shields:
My generation's teen angst film was probably The Breakfast Club or another one of John Hughes' endless tales of high school drama.
Hi Phil,
I loved the Breakfast Clulb - I watched it the first time when I was 18 and it made me feel like I had missed out on my teenage years. I thought it was so sorrowful at the end where they all have to separate to go off and lead their normal lives - very true to life,
Stripey (Peter)
Phillip Dampier:
Life in Wyoming in late winter....
Crash In Blizzard Conditions Closes I-80, Kills 6
(AP) LARAMIE, Wyo. At least 20 vehicles crashed in blizzard conditions on Interstate 80 west of here Sunday, killing at least six people.
Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Stephen Townsend said both semis and passenger vehicles were still being cleared from the scene at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, some seven hours after the crash occurred about 9 miles east of Elk Mountain in Carbon County.
The interstate was closed from Rawlins to Laramie because of the weather, and an additional 50 miles from Laramie to Cheyenne was closed at the request of Laramie officials; there was no parking left in Laramie for semitrailers. Meanwhile, the patrol also closed U.S. 30 -- which often serves as a detour when I-80 is closed -- in the Laramie area because of weather conditions and reports of crashes.
An undetermined number of injured people have been transported to hospitals in Laramie and Rawlins; Townsend didn't know whether there were additional fatalities or injuries because officers had not been able to reach all of the vehicles.
Patsy Carter, chief executive officer of Carbon County Memorial Hospital in Rawlins, said at 6:30 p.m. that nine people from the accident had been evaluated at the hospital but said none had been admitted.
A nursing supervisor at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie said no one had been admitted, but wouldn't say whether anyone from the accident had been evaluated.
Fire department and rescue units were dispatched from Elk Mountain and Laramie to the accident scene.
Troopers at the scene Sunday night reported zero visibility due to strong winds and blowing snow. The patrol said the interstate would remain closed until it is safe for traffic.
Local Laramie residents were allowed to travel west beyond the road-closure gates at Cheyenne if they could prove to law enforcement that they live in Laramie or are students at the University of Wyoming. The highway was reported to be clear and dry between Cheyenne and Laramie.
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