First you love me, then you say it's wrong

[rolanni]

More words than I thought I'd manage, and in a direction that, while surprising, seems inevitable. We Shall See.

Snow on the overnight, say the weatherbeans. One to three inches of it to drive to work in, then more snow tomorrow, topping off at four inches. Snow showers tomorrow night, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Taking the rest of the night off to watch "Quantum Leap" -- or, at least, the first episode of same -- with Steve.

Everybody stay warm -- or cool, as may be appropriate.


Progress on Ghost Ship:

27660 / 100000

"Indeed. Reckless to a fault, every one of us. Though Nova displays some sign of possessing common prudence, and -- until lately of course -- so had Pat Rin."

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

That headline is depressing. Sounds a lot like the late 1950's. Do people still pull that kind of thing a lot?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

To be fair, those are the lyrics to an oldish song -- "Monday Morning." And, yeah, people still do probably act that way, because, yanno...people.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

YAY Snippet!

Thank you, it made me chuckle :-) Now of course I'm wondering how Nova will display her recklessness.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Nova's visit to the mercenary planet was pretty reckless.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

I think she may surprise us even more. She's the only one in her generation that we haven't seen in a relationship yet. She did turn down Daxflan's captain, whose name escapes me at the moment, but we only have that story second hand from Shan.

[(Anonymous)]

er, Daxflan's Trader, not Captain. PS. The Captain was female.

Brom

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The visit to the mercenaries wasn't reckless, it was Necessary.

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, I agree.

On the other hand that says nothing about whether it was reckless or not.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Sure it does. It was reckoned? Hum, I just realized that I consider reckless and reckoned as opposites, but I'm not sure they are. I mean, one might reckon the cost and still do something that most people might consider reckless. It's the lack of thought which makes it reckless to me, not the level of potential cost.

Thanks for the insight into what I laughingly call my thinking.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I would certainly agree about reckless, and so would British law. The offense of "reckless driving" is that of "driving without due care and attention", in other words not reckoning. Whether other people consider it reckless is anothe matter, since they don't have the information they aren't qualified to judge -- jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane looks reckless, but skydivers do a lot of preparation and consideration before doing it.

[(Anonymous)]

IMHO, no amount of preparation or consideration takes skydiving out of the reckless category. The only good reason to exit an aircraft in flight is when it is more dangerous to stay than to bail.

Brom

[readinggeek451]

What about paratroopers in wartime?

[(Anonymous)]

They are a trade-off of "acceptable losses" for a swifter movement of light forces to a particular location. Paratroopers receive additional pay. They may call it "jump pay", but it is truly just another form of hazardous duty pay because, for all their training, every drop has high potential of injury or more ...

Brom

your school/office is not closed tomorrow?

[fiopi.livejournal.com]

In IL it's a holiday tomorrow for most businesses, the state colleges, etc. For weather we have the boundary between warm and cool that's resulting in freezing fog. So far just very beautiful crystal formations on plants/trees and NOT sticking to the road - although caution is being strongly urged for drivers at night.

Re: your school/office is not closed tomorrow?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

In Maine, tomorrow is also a holiday for most businesses and schools. However, my school is a residential school, and it Does Not Close -- not for the Usual Holidays, and not for snow.

In balance for the holidays at least, I work a two-day week in the summer.

I wish they would work out something a little better for staff regarding snow-and-weather, but Admin would pretty much rather pretend that there is no staff, or that we sort of manifest out of the night-mist, like the shoemaker's elves, so. . .not terrifically likely to happen.

Re: your school/office is not closed tomorrow?

[(Anonymous)]

In Hawaii, "snow days" did not exist. However, there were enough state holidays and teacher-training days to more than make up. Most schools had a year of beginning of Aug to end of May, and were set on the quarter system, with breaks between each quarter. One week in Oct, 3 wks over Xmas and 2 wks in Mar.

Brom

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Colleges and snow days manifest much the same here. I'm at a commuter college and down the road is a residential one. We call snow days usually by canceling afternoon and evening classes after all the staff has made it to campus (admin taking pity only on students) and the one down the road just says "everyone lives on campus, right?" To my knowledge the only time they canceled school was a blizzard in 1978 and don't want to seem excessive so have never done it again.