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[RANT] Where is winter?

Europe is frozen, as is much of the north. Alaska has it quite bad.

Personally, I'm very happy not to be using much oil this winter. It's saving me a ton of cash.
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You should get some chilly weather for a day or two early next week. That's about all the winter I see here through most of the month.

I saw some sort of bug flying around in the yard the other day. It's unreal.

You might want to check freecycle for a used window fan.

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No complaints from me about the lack of real Winter. I wish every one could be like this! Alot less stressful, both on my sanity & my back.

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My goodness, the thermostat was at 71 this morning, which means high 80s in my room (room has huge radiator and it is a small room tacked on to the end of the house.

I know I will get scolded for keeping my window open so I don't dare get caught.

see if you can turn off the valve to the radiator

Valve? I didn't know they have them, I'll look into that, but aren't there dangers to doing so?

No heat would suck too.

Since he was gone today I turned down the thermostat in the living room and I am comfortable now. I gathered my courage and hinted that I am uncomfortable.
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Oh - are we competing for life challenges? (boo hoo!)

I'll bite

Some years ago
Ex wife took off and left me with two children, ages 3 & 5
She made no contact with them for periods of over 12 months at a time. A little unstable is she, you might say.
If anyone says being a single parent is easy, they're hallucinating.

Me
Survived Melanoma
Two heart attacks and a third cardiac catheter
Diabetes along with the usual and customary Hyperlipidemia, a genetic condition, aka "Suet Blood"

My family
One daughter with severe Schizophrenia
Another daughter was a long time Heroin addict
Another daughter with BPD as a result of being abandoned by her birth vessel
Wife was addicted to Xanax and wanted to call off a 20 year marriage

I know I'm leaving things out, but I'll get back to them

Moral - no one of us is problem free. I've heard stories that make mine look like a nap in Kindergarten. I believe it's the Buddhists who have a saying that life is supposed to be hard. Get used to it.
Bitch about heat? F---! the heat. Open the GD window and be thankful you're on the tit of the state, and not sleeping under a bridge somewhere.

God bless you, sorry you have so many troubles, I wasn't competing for life challenges, and wasn't challenging you, but you seem pretty upset.

I've been homeless a few times, so all I was saying was that I fear that happening again.

I am very sorry to have offended you, and I am not living off the tit of the state, that is pretty simple minded.

I am hunting for work right now actually.

If there is something wrong with saying that my room is 87 degrees and uncomfortable and I am not supposed to open the windows and I just want to have a real home, if that makes me bad that I can't talk about it with others, so very sorry, I guess I am a pretty bad person. I am ashamed to have bothered you, please put me on ignore and I will try to not upset you any longer.

If in the next few weeks I have no home, you won't hear from me anyways.

As far as your troubles, you have my PROFOUND sympathy. God bless.

BTW, the closest to drug abuse and addiction I've ever had was 3 times I took LSD as a kid. Since being 20 I've tried to live a decent life. I've been beaten within inches of death, I've been through all kinds of things, but that wasn't my point. My complaint is that people in this forum armchair the state government and bellyache about it from the comfort of their nice homes, when there are people with problems of survival.

Sure, I am not suffering survival, and I am fortunate. I have legs and arms, freedom, and a mind that, while messed up, can still do most tasks. My point was about the bitching that goes on here as though most people in this forum are homeless, sick, and abused.

I am willing to bet others here have troubles, significant troubles, that isn't my point, my point is people here spend too much time whining about what is a pretty damned good government that is much better run that what I saw down in TN.

I am in the minority but have the bravery to call you all on your collective attitude. I am weary of the bitching and moaning about the governor and civil servants. Why don't you loud mouths take the time, run for office, and do something about it, instead?

Want to talk about bad government: Look at Syria.

Things are good in CT. Frankly, I am willing to pay 8 percent in state income tax if it means people in dire straights are rescued.

The people that are advising me are pretty impressed with my positive attitude. When I told them that one of the most important things to me was getting a decent job so I could pay taxes and better support my loved ones, I was told they haven't heard that before. I've been told what is good about me is that I have no sense of entitlement.

Yes, I've been told those things. Since coming back to CT I've plugged into the system and hit the pavement. I don't want this so called tit feeding me, sir. What I want is to live with dignity and pride. But explaining years of disability makes getting a job, let alone a decent job, near impossible because some people, like you, are so hateful and stereotype.

Freaking wingnuts, how did you guys get to become what you are? Government is the one thing standing in the way of many people up and dieing.
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I could have sworn that:

A - You were whining about your situation
B - You said ..."I don't see people [here] having real problems"
C- I could have sworn too that in the past you posted that you had a disability income, hence the tit. I could well be wrong about that.

In the course of written communications, the extremely important body language and tone of voice is lost. This often leads to misunderstandings. If I offended you, then I apologize. That was not my intent.

I probably bitch as much or more as the next schlub, but my intent was to suggest we be thankful for whatever shreds of good come along. To help put things in perspective for just me - I have three friends my age who were orphans. All ended up as foster or adopted farm slaves starting to work around age 5 & 6. One was repeatedly sexually molested on the farm, and had absolutely no one to turn to for help. I am the only one he has ever told, and the tears streamed down his cheeks as he told me. Then there are the people we know who have lost children. I don't think there could ever be anything worse that that. When I hold my pittance of challenges up to situations like the aforementioned, my challenges pale in comparison.

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My brother doesn't believe in a God because he can't understand how the world could be so full of suffering. As you know, my nephew has cancer but is in remission. It's been a scary ride. I know about abuse and even labor as a child, though I wasn't a farm worker. That is pretty rough.

Our children are precious and our future, and whenever I see ANY hint of abuse, I am ready to report it. Sadly, kids that are removed from abusive homes often end up in a system that isn't much better.

I just want you to know, I am working hard at bettering myself, I never liked being seen as a sleege. I spent 30 years refusing any kind of help for my issues and was finally pushed into it while I was homeless the last time.

I realize that I am a hugely fortunate guy and that life is good, and it was along those lines that I expressed my concern for some of the griping about the government of our state. Honestly guys, CT is run much better than a lot of other states, yeah, our government could certainly do much better but as a for instance, DSS has seen personnel cutbacks from what I understand, so the people sleeging the system are having a harder time, and yes, there ARE people who sleege and have a sense of entitlement and refuse to better themselves. But if we had no social programs, they'd be robbing your home, and finding other ways to be, well, losers. We need to understand that (without a good stat to go by) for every jerk sucking off the system there are probably dozens who are deserving and desperately WANT to become tax payers.

Living on the tit is not a good life. You can't afford a decent home. You can't go out to eat if you don't feel up to cooking, say if your really sick. And you don't eat the healthiest foods. I've gone days only eating rice before, for example. You can't get some health care issues resolved, such as a toothache (I recently went a month with one), people put you down even IF you contribute to society in every way you can (I've done volunteer work), you can't pay bills and your credit rating goes to hell, no credit card (try living without one), so many things. People who are welfare hogs usually don't live quality lives, unless they are real scam artists, and prison awaits them.

Last night a TV show exposed a woman that falsely posed as severely handicapped and lived like a queen on handouts. There are people like that, and such people live without a sense of dignity or pride and often get caught and go to jail, even prison. While I don't want the USA to have debtor's prison again, I think we should be able to go after such scam artists because they harm the rest of the good, decent humans on hard times.

Guys, just don't let your right wing thinking cause you to generalize so much about situations that you yourself might not have intimate knowledge of. Blaming those that are unfortunate for society's ills is not only wrong, it is hateful and un-godlike...

I'm not judging, and in fact, I'm asking others to do the same, don't judge and discount things out of hand.
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I have absolutely no problem with taxes for helping those in need. I would actually like to see more benefits paid to people who need the help instead of building highways with fraudulent drainage, or a 4 million dollar garage to house a dozen mini buses or a bajillion dollar train that would equate to: it would be cheaper to limo each passenger back & forth for 30 years. Those are the things that get my tax bitch all up on me. It's not welfare or disability that pokes my hive - it's wanton graft laden waste.

As far as trains:

Europe and parts of Asia have much better train systems than we have. We need more trains, but they need to be built within budget. We need high speed rail.

Like NASA and the national labs (used to work for one of those), infrastructure projects can create much more wealth than they consume, unless they become boondoggles. Like that republican and his bridge to nowhere.

But we desperately need infrastructure improvements. As much as 1/3 of the nation's highway bridges are in some level of danger due to disrepair.

IMHO, we need more and better oversight of corporations AND government projects. We deserve to get our money's worth, but government spending can ultimately generate much more revenue than it consumes, I just don't like how people from the right generalize about these things.

At the labs, we created whole new industries and jobs. Private funding can't achieve the level of research that government can. We never would have made it to the moon and developed so many industries that spun off of it if we had waited for private industry to take us there. We'd still not have gone.

Sometimes we need big vision. But big vision needs big leadership. And it needs hard requirements and standards. Don't perform well and you're out. Indeed that should be the case.

Like putting CL&P's feet to the fire.

I suppose Malloy's biggest problem is the same as Obama's: Trying too hard to please others. His efforts of going around the state to listen to voters, for instance, while an awesome idea, didn't help HIM at all. The problem is that the people that work FOR him, some are asswipes. Some government workers are just bad.

But personally, I think he is a good governor.

Last week I talked to an insurance provider worker and also a government worker. Both gave me very wrong, very bad information and poor assistance. This week, with both agencies, my experience was the opposite. Put humans in the mix anywhere you go and there will be jerks that muck up the mix.

My first psychiatrist misdiagnosed me and it could have cost me my life. The next psychiatrist had me so over medicated I couldn't function hardly at all. Now I do much better. Humans. Some are good quality and some are just in it for the ride. Sadly, some of the good ones try so hard to be good that they get labeled as being bad.

Interestingly, my experiences in other states in various things have been worse. Professionalism is more prevalent here in CT.
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Join Teams Helix and Discovery. Rest in Peace, Leonard David Smith, my best friend, you are missed badly! Rest in peace, Pop, glad our last years were good. Please pray for Colin, he has ependymoma, a brain cancer, donate to a children's Hospital.

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Stop talking about "where is the snow?" You're only giving Glenn ammo for WHEN it happens big (not this weekend's....)

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I'm superstitious about snowstorm forecasts in New England, so I'm still hedging my bets. Wait until 3 or 4PM ET, then we can say it was a clean miss, or not.

So far, we have a clean miss.

We might have a little snow squall as the cold air arrives. Otherwise, we're out of the woods.

Un-winter should return by Monday or Tuesday. 5 weeks until spring.

Another storm for next weekend - looks like rain, snow up north.

A bigger [rain]storm looks to be coming around the 25th. Might be something to look at around the beginning of March, but the crystal ball gets cloudier the further you look ahead. Always in motion, is the future...

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