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[gallantwarrior]

I just got done with my 4th A&P exam. I went and looked at one of the questions I changed my answer on; I started with the correct answer and changed it to a wrong one. I hate when I do that!

Still, overall I feel pretty good about it. If I end up with an A, I'll only need to get a C on the final to have an A for the class. I've got 3 exams and a paper left in the next week, then I'll be done with the semester and off for 2 and a half weeks or so before the summer semester begins. I may already have an A in my English Comp class, as I said, I might not need to do all that well on the A&P final to get an A in that class, I got an A in my Computer Applications class, and while I'm only at 63 points in my Medical Terminology class, the final is worth 35 points and I expect I'll be able to get at least the B I need on that to have an A for the class. A good first full semester, assuming I don't completely botch the A&P final.

A&P? Airframe and Powerplant?

 

[gallantwarrior]

Well, cool here is a relative term as we're in the high desert. Yesterday was in the 70s with a cool wind, last night got down into the 50s but we're warming back up again starting this afternoon, upper 80s to low 90s.

Here is about 9C (48F) and I don't close the window, because it's comfortable for me... Especially to sleep with such fresh air... Maybe it's because I'm too fat to enjoy higher temperatures ))

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

That's very much possible in Phoenix where temps can run 10 to 20 degrees hotter there than here. We probably won't see any 90's until late May or maybe June.

90's? What are these 90's you speak of?
Only in Fairbanks.

 

[Foxfyre]

I've lived in the Great Lakes region my whole life.

If it gets up to 55, folks around here are in shorts. We're lucky if we see a few weeks in the summer above ninety.

I spent a month out in Vegas one summer, the day I arrived, it was a few degrees below 100, and it didn't dip back below 100 till the day I left 40 some days later. It was the first time I had ever seen on TV, meteorologists telling folks what temperature it was in the shade, and what it was in the sun.

In our neck of the woods, during winter, we have crap on our weather reported like "lake effect snow" "lake swells" and "wind chill." In my book, it's easier to "layer" than it is to cool down.

Damn was I glad to see green and get back to sane living conditions again.

I have lived in the Great Lakes area all of my life too. I believe it was in 2012 or thereabouts when we had a 90 degree day in June and it stayed that way all Summer. A couple of days, it got into the hundreds.

By the time October got here I felt like I would positively wilt.

I like it cooler, windows all open wide. That would be about 70 and sunny.

Ah yes, the cities do trap their heat.

I remember, Chicago was positively sizzling that summer.

You should have headed on north to the straits of Mackinac. When ever the well to do in Chicago or Detroit have a summer like that, it is where they go. Even in a 100 degree heat down in the industrialized areas in South MI, OH, IN, IL, it is guaranteed to be 15 degrees cooler up there.

M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think that is the year my sister and her husband went for the yacht races.

I lived in Chicago in the 70's, was married there and had both of my children there...loved it...even the hot, humid summers and the windchill factor winters....Chicago always has a place in my heart!

I love it there too! We go every chance we get, it's about 4 1/2 hrs. from us.

My first wife's family regularly sails in the Port Huron to Mackinaw race. I am about fours from Chicago.

I would love doing that. But there aren't a heck of a lot of yachts or any form of racing boats here on the high desert.

 

[ChrisL]

I just got done with my 4th A&P exam. I went and looked at one of the questions I changed my answer on; I started with the correct answer and changed it to a wrong one. I hate when I do that!

Still, overall I feel pretty good about it. If I end up with an A, I'll only need to get a C on the final to have an A for the class. I've got 3 exams and a paper left in the next week, then I'll be done with the semester and off for 2 and a half weeks or so before the summer semester begins. I may already have an A in my English Comp class, as I said, I might not need to do all that well on the A&P final to get an A in that class, I got an A in my Computer Applications class, and while I'm only at 63 points in my Medical Terminology class, the final is worth 35 points and I expect I'll be able to get at least the B I need on that to have an A for the class. A good first full semester, assuming I don't completely botch the A&P final.

Congrats. I told you it wouldn't be so bad.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Here is about 9C (48F) and I don't close the window, because it's comfortable for me... Especially to sleep with such fresh air... Maybe it's because I'm too fat to enjoy higher temperatures ))

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

Actually Arizonians handle it pretty well though. Those not as acclimated to it will suffer a lot more.

I remember one time when I was still running my biz and driving the state, I was driving into Carlsbad NM. And just about when I saw the 117 degrees f (47.2 celsius) on the bank clock, my car air conditioner froze up. The only way to thaw it fast is to run the heater. Have you ever run your car heater in 117 degree heat?

Another time we were enjoying a holiday in Laughlin NV and thought we would walk from our casino to the one next door maybe 50 yards away. But the temperature that day was closing in on 125 degrees fahrenheit. We were used to 105-110 summertime heat there and you wouldn't think another 10-15 degrees would make that much difference. It does. We decided we wouldn't walk that 50 yards until after the sun went down.

It's not just the heat, there's the glaring sunlight! The sunlight is so brilliant there, it's almost painful.

 

[Foxfyre]

Here is about 9C (48F) and I don't close the window, because it's comfortable for me... Especially to sleep with such fresh air... Maybe it's because I'm too fat to enjoy higher temperatures ))

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

That's very much possible in Phoenix where temps can run 10 to 20 degrees hotter there than here. We probably won't see any 90's until late May or maybe June.

90's? What are these 90's you speak of?
Only in Fairbanks.

It gets that warm in Fairbanks? Isn't it a couple of hundred miles or so from the Arctic Circle?

 

[Foxfyre]

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

Actually Arizonians handle it pretty well though. Those not as acclimated to it will suffer a lot more.

I remember one time when I was still running my biz and driving the state, I was driving into Carlsbad NM. And just about when I saw the 117 degrees f (47.2 celsius) on the bank clock, my car air conditioner froze up. The only way to thaw it fast is to run the heater. Have you ever run your car heater in 117 degree heat?

Another time we were enjoying a holiday in Laughlin NV and thought we would walk from our casino to the one next door maybe 50 yards away. But the temperature that day was closing in on 125 degrees fahrenheit. We were used to 105-110 summertime heat there and you wouldn't think another 10-15 degrees would make that much difference. It does. We decided we wouldn't walk that 50 yards until after the sun went down.

It's not just the heat, there's the glaring sunlight! The sunlight is so brilliant there, it's almost painful.

Well, we're sort of used to that here.

 

[ChrisL]

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

Actually Arizonians handle it pretty well though. Those not as acclimated to it will suffer a lot more.

I remember one time when I was still running my biz and driving the state, I was driving into Carlsbad NM. And just about when I saw the 117 degrees f (47.2 celsius) on the bank clock, my car air conditioner froze up. The only way to thaw it fast is to run the heater. Have you ever run your car heater in 117 degree heat?

Another time we were enjoying a holiday in Laughlin NV and thought we would walk from our casino to the one next door maybe 50 yards away. But the temperature that day was closing in on 125 degrees fahrenheit. We were used to 105-110 summertime heat there and you wouldn't think another 10-15 degrees would make that much difference. It does. We decided we wouldn't walk that 50 yards until after the sun went down.

It's not just the heat, there's the glaring sunlight! The sunlight is so brilliant there, it's almost painful.

Get some good sunglasses!

 

[saveliberty]

I just got done with my 4th A&P exam. I went and looked at one of the questions I changed my answer on; I started with the correct answer and changed it to a wrong one. I hate when I do that!

Still, overall I feel pretty good about it. If I end up with an A, I'll only need to get a C on the final to have an A for the class. I've got 3 exams and a paper left in the next week, then I'll be done with the semester and off for 2 and a half weeks or so before the summer semester begins. I may already have an A in my English Comp class, as I said, I might not need to do all that well on the A&P final to get an A in that class, I got an A in my Computer Applications class, and while I'm only at 63 points in my Medical Terminology class, the final is worth 35 points and I expect I'll be able to get at least the B I need on that to have an A for the class. A good first full semester, assuming I don't completely botch the A&P final.

Congrats. I told you it wouldn't be so bad.

Since you are taking pictures around the house...try one coming out of a closet. Certain posters will run with that for weeks.

 

[MisterBeale]

I have lived in the Great Lakes area all of my life too. I believe it was in 2012 or thereabouts when we had a 90 degree day in June and it stayed that way all Summer. A couple of days, it got into the hundreds.

By the time October got here I felt like I would positively wilt.

I like it cooler, windows all open wide. That would be about 70 and sunny.

Ah yes, the cities do trap their heat.

I remember, Chicago was positively sizzling that summer.

You should have headed on north to the straits of Mackinac. When ever the well to do in Chicago or Detroit have a summer like that, it is where they go. Even in a 100 degree heat down in the industrialized areas in South MI, OH, IN, IL, it is guaranteed to be 15 degrees cooler up there.

M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think that is the year my sister and her husband went for the yacht races.

I lived in Chicago in the 70's, was married there and had both of my children there...loved it...even the hot, humid summers and the windchill factor winters....Chicago always has a place in my heart!

I love it there too! We go every chance we get, it's about 4 1/2 hrs. from us.

My first wife's family regularly sails in the Port Huron to Mackinaw race. I am about fours from Chicago.

I would love doing that. But there aren't a heck of a lot of yachts or any form of racing boats here on the high desert.

Yes, but with all that wonderful desert, there are plenty of other racing opportunities. . .

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Rolling Stone

 

[Foxfyre]

Ah yes, the cities do trap their heat.

I remember, Chicago was positively sizzling that summer.

You should have headed on north to the straits of Mackinac. When ever the well to do in Chicago or Detroit have a summer like that, it is where they go. Even in a 100 degree heat down in the industrialized areas in South MI, OH, IN, IL, it is guaranteed to be 15 degrees cooler up there.

M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think that is the year my sister and her husband went for the yacht races.

I lived in Chicago in the 70's, was married there and had both of my children there...loved it...even the hot, humid summers and the windchill factor winters....Chicago always has a place in my heart!

I love it there too! We go every chance we get, it's about 4 1/2 hrs. from us.

My first wife's family regularly sails in the Port Huron to Mackinaw race. I am about fours from Chicago.

I would love doing that. But there aren't a heck of a lot of yachts or any form of racing boats here on the high desert.

Yes, but with all that wonderful desert, there are plenty of other racing opportunities. . .

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Rolling Stone

Ah yes, the cities do trap their heat.

I remember, Chicago was positively sizzling that summer.

You should have headed on north to the straits of Mackinac. When ever the well to do in Chicago or Detroit have a summer like that, it is where they go. Even in a 100 degree heat down in the industrialized areas in South MI, OH, IN, IL, it is guaranteed to be 15 degrees cooler up there.

M-185: The Only US Highway Where Motor Vehicles Are Banned

My memory is a bit hazy, but I think that is the year my sister and her husband went for the yacht races.

I lived in Chicago in the 70's, was married there and had both of my children there...loved it...even the hot, humid summers and the windchill factor winters....Chicago always has a place in my heart!

I love it there too! We go every chance we get, it's about 4 1/2 hrs. from us.

My first wife's family regularly sails in the Port Huron to Mackinaw race. I am about fours from Chicago.

I would love doing that. But there aren't a heck of a lot of yachts or any form of racing boats here on the high desert.

Yes, but with all that wonderful desert, there are plenty of other racing opportunities. . .

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Rolling Stone

That is true. In Deming NM, a tiny town in far south central New Mexico, on the fourth weekend every August, they hold their 'world famous' duck races. They advertise their town as home of great water (and it really is) and fast ducks.

Not sure how the tradition got started but it has developed its own folk culture for a long, long time now.

 

[gallantwarrior]

So, I was thinking about sleeping and sleeping patterns recently. I only require about 5 or 6 hours of sleep. One of my friends says I must be sleep deprived, but I don't feel sleep deprived. I have to say that when I lie my head down, I probably fall asleep within no more than 10 minutes. Then, when I awaken 5 or 6 hours later, even if I try, I can't seem to fall back to sleep, so I get up and start my day!

Do you think everyone requires a full 8 hours? What do you think coffee shoppers?

I think there are lots of variables and, as usual, one-size-fits-all is not necessarily the rule. I.e.: I've worked graveyard shift now for 20 years, getting 4-6 hours sleep on work nights. But I always wake up at about 8 am (7 am DST) on my days off. Even when I can sleep all night long, I get up between 2-3 am and putter about for an hour, or two, before I sleep again. If I manage a cat nap here and there, that's always fine, too.

 

[Gracie]

It hasn't decided what its going to be here. Cold, hot? Somewhere inbetween for an hour or a day? Then back to cold? Then hot again? I think that is why my joints are having such a hissy. At home, I could go weeks..even a few months, without a flareup. Here...its constant. I think mainly due to the fluctuations of the weather. I loathe it. Mostly because not a day goes by that I don't hurt and this has been going on since I got here.

However, the only way from not becoming stiff, I have to keep busy. So, I am off to the antique mall today to help the housemate get his new bigger space ready. Which means MAYBE some of this crap in the house will get hauled down there, but I ain't holding my breath. Still...it's a start. I kinda dread going because its upstairs and I don't know what to wear. A coat? A tshirt? Both? And the stairs. Two levels. I don't know how well I will handle that, but I am going to give it a try.

Meanwhile...its supposed to be in the 70's today. Right now, it is 50 and overcast. They said no rain, but I am looking at a light rain right now and whether it clears up or not depends on the wind, I guess.

 

[gallantwarrior]

9C! Too cold! View attachment 122893

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

That's very much possible in Phoenix where temps can run 10 to 20 degrees hotter there than here. We probably won't see any 90's until late May or maybe June.

90's? What are these 90's you speak of?
Only in Fairbanks.

It gets that warm in Fairbanks? Isn't it a couple of hundred miles or so from the Arctic Circle?

Oh, yeah, it does get that warm...and humid, too. You can almost set your watch by the time the daily thunderstorms start and end up there. And the sun doesn't really set there most of the summer. It just kind of dips to the horizon and then starts rising again.

 

[gallantwarrior]

That is normal winter daytime temps for us or maybe just a tad warmer--the kind of weather you wear a sweater or light jacket unless it is windy and you're going to be out in it for some time. But this time of year it feels really chilly though we have been getting into the mid to low 40's almost every night now--warms into the high 60's or low 70's during the day--might get up to low 80's. But as SBiker in Russia and Ringel in the Texas desert point out, our comfort level is pretty much relative to what feels 'normal' to us. Somebody in southeast Asia would no doubt see it all much differently.

My friends in Phoenix said daytime temps are in the 90's there already.

Actually Arizonians handle it pretty well though. Those not as acclimated to it will suffer a lot more.

I remember one time when I was still running my biz and driving the state, I was driving into Carlsbad NM. And just about when I saw the 117 degrees f (47.2 celsius) on the bank clock, my car air conditioner froze up. The only way to thaw it fast is to run the heater. Have you ever run your car heater in 117 degree heat?

Another time we were enjoying a holiday in Laughlin NV and thought we would walk from our casino to the one next door maybe 50 yards away. But the temperature that day was closing in on 125 degrees fahrenheit. We were used to 105-110 summertime heat there and you wouldn't think another 10-15 degrees would make that much difference. It does. We decided we wouldn't walk that 50 yards until after the sun went down.

It's not just the heat, there's the glaring sunlight! The sunlight is so brilliant there, it's almost painful.

Get some good sunglasses!

I don't really need to 'cause I'm not planning on being anywhere near AZ, NV, or any other southwestern state in the near future.

 

[Foxfyre]

Same here Gracie. It has been rainy all day so far including a cold wind and 50 degrees. Will only warm up a few more degrees today if at all. Tomorrow in mid 60's, nice on Thursday, and then back to low 60's for Friday and mid 50's for high on Saturday.

We're supposed to have our heating shut off tomorrow and the swamp cooler fired up. I called our folks who do that and asked if we could renegotiate the schedule.

 

[gallantwarrior]

It hasn't decided what its going to be here. Cold, hot? Somewhere inbetween for an hour or a day? Then back to cold? Then hot again? I think that is why my joints are having such a hissy. At home, I could go weeks..even a few months, without a flareup. Here...its constant. I think mainly due to the fluctuations of the weather. I loathe it. Mostly because not a day goes by that I don't hurt and this has been going on since I got here.

However, the only way from not becoming stiff, I have to keep busy. So, I am off to the antique mall today to help the housemate get his new bigger space ready. Which means MAYBE some of this crap in the house will get hauled down there, but I ain't holding my breath. Still...it's a start. I kinda dread going because its upstairs and I don't know what to wear. A coat? A tshirt? Both? And the stairs. Two levels. I don't know how well I will handle that, but I am going to give it a try.

Meanwhile...its supposed to be in the 70's today. Right now, it is 50 and overcast. They said no rain, but I am looking at a light rain right now and whether it clears up or not depends on the wind, I guess.

A roof over your head shouldn't come at such a price, not at our age. I'm still crossing my hooks that you and Mr. G. get into one of the enclaves you have been wishing to inhabit. Close to the ocean, for all of you.

 

[CeeCee]

It hasn't decided what its going to be here. Cold, hot? Somewhere inbetween for an hour or a day? Then back to cold? Then hot again? I think that is why my joints are having such a hissy. At home, I could go weeks..even a few months, without a flareup. Here...its constant. I think mainly due to the fluctuations of the weather. I loathe it. Mostly because not a day goes by that I don't hurt and this has been going on since I got here.

However, the only way from not becoming stiff, I have to keep busy. So, I am off to the antique mall today to help the housemate get his new bigger space ready. Which means MAYBE some of this crap in the house will get hauled down there, but I ain't holding my breath. Still...it's a start. I kinda dread going because its upstairs and I don't know what to wear. A coat? A tshirt? Both? And the stairs. Two levels. I don't know how well I will handle that, but I am going to give it a try.

Meanwhile...its supposed to be in the 70's today. Right now, it is 50 and overcast. They said no rain, but I am looking at a light rain right now and whether it clears up or not depends on the wind, I guess.

No rain for the next 10 days here and probably none after that either...rainy season is over and time to set my sprinkler system but I'm not sure if we are still in drought schedule or not...I'll wait til Friday til my Gardner guy comes, he knows everything and is better at setting the sprinklers anyway.
Ok, that was easy...

Also wanted to tell Gracie that in a week we will have temps in the 90's..YIKES, not ready for that yet..just changed my flannel sheets yesterday to my summer ones.

 

[Ringel05]

80s and high winds today, 50+ mph gusts, have a good dust storm that's been going all day.

 

[CeeCee]

80s and high winds today, 50+ mph gusts, have a good dust storm that's been going all day.

WOW, that's some wind...I would be afraid here if it got that windy.