Its sooo quiet...

What's new PnQers? Everyone is so quiet today, I had to post something!

What's the weather like where you are? Is it the close of one season and you already feel the next rapidly approaching? Us Oregonians got a late start to our summer, so we have a nice heat wave.

Anyone see any good movies lately? Do anything fun? Anything?!?!

FOOTBALL is here!! lol

I started school again this week. It's been a year, so I'm mighty excited! As for our summer here...I don't think it's over yet. We didn't really see much nice weather until mid July. It's raining and a bit chilly today, but for me that's a welcome change when compared to our coastal humidity.

Sylvia I know! I'm glued to the tv lol

Jordan where are you from? Sounds like the same weather I'm having! Whatcha going to school for?

There has been terrible flooding around my area. We got very lucky. Some of our family members have lost their homes. Here are a few videos:

Here's a facebook page showing photos and videos: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tri-County-Flood-2011/277655505580568

Roads are collapsing and it's just been terrible :( We've been very very fortunate to not to have any flooding near our home as we're up on a hill.

Oh wow Amanda, that's heartbreaking. It's easy to say its just possessions, and at least they're alive, but I couldn't imagine losing my home and all of my things. My heart and prayers go out to all.

Fires & smoke in drought striken Texas.

I got a frantic call from the lady who runs our boarding ranch, we almost had to evacuate Cherokee, our young paint mare. Fortunately the fire was contained a few miles before her ranch.

Jeeze laweeze. Are you far from the fires, Larry
We have a wildfire near Mt Hood, and east winds are pushing heat and smokey haze into the valley. It's been yucky breathing for a while.

I'm up north in Newfoundland! As for school, I have a BA in linguistics. I'm taking an extra year to make my transcript look better before I apply for grad studies in audiology. :)

YEs i watched moviesss

I watched The Smurfs :P from 2 days, man so funny, I just love them and I believe they are making millions, all tickets were sold though it's like the 4rth week here...anyway

weather in Leb. is just amazing today, sunny with some white clouds and a lot of cool breezes XD

University starts again next month :/, no more being useless, except that I am still tutoring

BRIT, what else are you doing other than feeling bad about football being over :P and bingoing :P

Not much has been going on around my neck of the woods. I'm done with my summer nannying job, and looking for "real work." I think filling out vast amounts of applications ought to count as "real work." I'm also doing some odd jobs for my parents. Today it's day two of fence staining! I feel like Tom Sawyer, walking around in my painting overalls eating peaches, looking for someone to con.

Newfoundland, I love saying that. Its a mouthful lol.

Nana, I'm not sad football is over, it just started!! lol What are you talking about crazy lady!? Was Smurfs good?

Sib - "real work" is no fun, but I guess it pays the bills. Fence staining suuuuucks, but it's so nice to look back and see what you worked on, see how pretty it is :) Are you really wearing painting overalls? Please take a picture of this, I must see!

Now I want peaches.

Now I really want to watch Smurfs, so bad!!

yesterday I went, the final two showtimes were fully booked, so I ended up watching Rise of The Planet of The Apes --- interesting, it was =]

Maybe that will be my new avatar, Britt ; )

ABED you watched Rise of the planet of APES ??? MAN.. I will watch that on Monday anyway :P !!

BRIT, lmao I was reffering to your face book status haha :P

Sib, painting ? mmm = colorful ? = rainbows = amazing = do it! :]

Don't tease, Sib!

What movie were you trying to see? The Smurf movie?

And peaches are just amazing :]

The smurfs... stop smurfing around britt :P

Haha! I read it funny the first time, my bad. It's Friday and my brain is f-r-i-e-d!!

LOL haha..

We are getting a break from a long hot summer here in Tennessee

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it
I always thought Mark Twain had first said that, but after a bit of googling around I find it isn't clear whether it was Twain, or his friend Charles D. Warner. In any case, it isn't funny any more. We're talking about the weather more than ever, and we could be doing something about it, but we aren't.

I'm not any sort of a meteorologist or climate scientist, but I have a bit to say about the current bizarre weather from the standpoint of an educated lay person who tries to keep up with the latest, and a student of society who thinks about how people are likely to respond to events.

Here in New England, this has been the winter that wasn't. Yesterday the new Governor of Massachusetts was inaugurated out of doors in his suit jacket, without an overcoat. Many in the crowd were in shirtsleeves. Dandelions are blooming, and robins have forgotten to fly south. For the past few nights, we have had no frost. A January thaw is not unusual here, but this is not a thaw because there hasn't been any freeze. After the warmest December since systematic record keeping began, we are already well on our way to an even warmer January. The long range forecast has a cool down to closer to normal temperatures next week, but nothing that will make up for the extraordinary warmth so far.

The official line is that the earth has warmed only about 1 degree farenheit in the past 50 years, which doesn't seem like much. Of course that's the global mean, which includes the oceans and the less volatile tropics. Certainly New England has warmed more than that. Still, we've had plenty of cold winter weather the past few years, and the scientists haven't predicted that we won't still. Rather, when a warm weather pattern sets up, it will be a bit warmer than usual, and a cold weather pattern won't be quite as cold. We really wouldn't notice if the lowest daytime high in January was 17 degrees instead of 15, or if the highest temperature was 54 instead of 52. Rather, we expect the effects of climate change to be observable through indicators on a longer time scale: the date the pond freezes and thaws; the date of the first and last frost; the extent of snow cover over North America on February 1.

But this winter had been really different. They tell us the jet stream is further north than usual, keeping the arctic air under house arrest. No doubt it will eventually spill south and shock the hell out of us. But us lay people are now starting to worry about those positive feedback loops. We're well past the solstice now, and the sun is creeping north, where it gets to work on bare, unfrozen ground and open water instead of snowbanks and ice covered lakes. That means even warmer air, and when that arctic air does head south, it will be much warmed up by the time it gets to Boston. If the snow cover never forms, or retreats more quickly in the spring than usual, does that mean all the more heat to be stored in the oceans and the ground, and a warmer summer and a warmer next winter?

If this does signal a faster pace of warming than expected, that's important. But just as important is how people will respond to this. So far I don't think many people are complaining, other than skiers and maple syrup producers. It's saving folks a bundle on heat and it's making life a lot lazier and easier. Will people in the northeastern U.S. be inclined to see this as a problem? Will it worry them? Will they feel compelled to take serious action? I have to be honest, most people around here seem to be enjoying it and psychologically, it's just a lot to expect that people are going to clamor to make serious collective sacrifices in order to bring back hockey games on the pond in lieu of roller blading around it. Our Mayor for Life wants to build a new City Hall down by the waterfront, and I'm just afraid we're going to have to see it under water before people really start to pay attention. So far, the winter that wasn't is just a pleasant curiosity, to the public and the press."

Some of the computer models are projecting Katia making it to Scotland as a tropical storm. I don't remember that ever happening before.

MIKE, all I will say is, thank GOD you're not a meteorologist nor a climate scientist!! Man I am dazzled

Sunny and HOT where I am, this is the beginning of our Indian summer. It's probably 100F.

I have to wear black pants, black shoes, and a black button up shirt to work. Even with aircon, the 5 minute drive makes me melt!

Ick! What do ya do for work?

XOXOXOXOX...I DESERVE THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE...(HUGS AND KISSES FOR EVERYONE. (ON THE CHEEK)....
EXCEPT FOR RANIA..SHE GETS ONE ON THE LIPS.....LMAO..... I AM KIDDING...

UGH ARUBA IS SO WARM I WANNA BE NAKED ALL DAY

Omg Yaki you are a nut! How hot is it there?

I don't know why I'm so interested lol

HOW DO YOU PUT THE THINGY...THE TINY O...ON TOP OF A THINGY THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE TEMPERATURE...

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/78982.html

omg :( :(
we usually have tons of sun...but tons of wind too..
now the wind took a trip to the depths of despair..went rolling in the deep..and we are almost windless :(

It's only in the 80's and low 90's. We're getting hotter here all week :P I thought it was like, HOT HOT HOT there.

IT ISS....GOD.... :"(

Waitress at a Nepalese/Indian restaurant, bunches.

We got a slight break: it only went up into the 90s over the weekend. Great weather for running & we did just that.
Saturday Rosaura & I ran the Bearkat Bash 5k here in Klein, Tx; Rosaura came in 2nd & I came in 3rd in our respective age groups.
Sunday, we ran the 9/11 Memorial World Airline Road Race 5k in Grapevine, near Dallas, Tx; I knocked 1.5 minutes off my best time while Rosaura placed 3rd Overall Women's Masters.
Today it goes back up to 102!

Heeey! I wanted to start a similar thread but was afraid of being penalized. xP

So, knock knock, can I come in? I promise to be a good guy! xD

:P:P

What's the weather like where you are? Is it the close of one season and you already feel the next rapidly approaching?
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Hot, hot, hot, HOT, hotness roving all around, everything is hot!!! I'm sick of this weather, I want some coldness, I hate sun (Nana, no offense :P) I hate Summer!! I can't wait till Autumn arrives.

Anyone see any good movies lately? Do anything fun? Anything?!?!

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good movies? YESSSSSSS
I've watched "What Happen In LA" for the 100th times, Lol. It is pretty funny and I love Cameron! Nothing is on TV and I'm tired of renting movies. :/

I want someone to recommend some good movies, Britt, you are responsable for that, you started this thread, Lol. Tell me some titles of good movies....keep in mind that I'm overly sensational. :P

^^^I'm Noura, btw, if anyone is wondering.... :P

Lol it IS so quite ...:/

WTMNIS = Noura?

We're working on polishing up this rule, but keep in mind only 2 accounts per member and that includes club accounts...

Hmmmmm it is my club account, I and my assistants have the password. Didn't know it was against the rules, I have seen lots of club accounts....

It goes for all club accounts.
You are allowed to have a club account but you may only use it if you don't have more than one other account besides the club account. Make sense?

Hopefully everyone with a club account sees this post.

Oh, yes I got you :) it makes sense.

I only have "The Poetess" and my club account, Phew. :P

In case people don't see there is a new stickied thread up top!