- Signed: Matthew Hartman
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It's emanating from the bathroom and unfortunately, the kitchen as well. Has lingered for 2 weeks now and is originating from the least expected place. The water!
It's an annual thing in this part of the country, to have these episodes in the early spring. I remember having a similar issue last year at this time but certainly don't remember having dealt with it this long. It's been in the paper and on the news over the past week, so apparently I'm not the only one around the area complaining to the city utilities. I can't really describe the smell, but it's very similar to the smell of chlorine. Imagine smelling it every time you go to take a shower, every time you go to wash your hands, brush your teeth or wash the dishes. It's very much annoying.
Apparently, the snow melt contributes to the problems - and how the water treatment plant here treats our water. Some sort of chemical they use results in the putrid smell. It, obviously doesn't do any harm, but either way, it's a pain in the ass.
So, I'm hoping everyone out there is doing well... I'm wicked sorry for taking so long between posts, folks! I feel it's been forever since I last wrote anything in my blog. I feel horrible, because there are times when I have strange (and such random) thoughts trickling through my mind and just KNOW you all would love to hear about them. Believe me, I've had some very strange things rattling around up there in that empty shell, lately... ;)
I'm hoping I can most past my laziness and become more proactive with my blog. And I'm seriously reconsidering my WeatherBlog. Even though my participation really fell off with that, as well, chase season is just around the corner up here in North Dakota and really, I'd like to have a place I can share all my chasing adventures and mis-adventures with you all once again. We're hoping for a great chase season in these parts!
What else has been going on here lately? Not much really new. Work has been a little stressful lately. I came off the midnight shift (12am - 8am) this morning and now have a couple of days off. I've had to deal with Alberta for 5 days straight and that's never fun. I used to enjoy working on the Alberta forecasts, but anymore, I get real tired of worrying about the precipitation forecasts up there. It's so large of an area and you're forced to have to work off of satellite imagery to locate your initialized precip. Canadian radars suck freakin' ass and just never pick up precipitation like it should. On top of that, verification is nearly impossible since surface observations are so sparse up there, especially in the central and northern portions of the province - and that the observations we do get are questionable, at best, most of the time. The one advantage - the westerly Chinooks have finally subsided and that makes the temperature forecasts MUCH easier over the southwest foothill regions.
Anyhow, enough about work... I now have a couple of days off and I'm going to enjoy them as much as possible. I'm going to relax some this evening and have some chores to attend to tomorrow. Laundry is piling up and so are the dishes. And I want to work on my web-cam project some more. That has been progressing rather well lately. I've finally put forth the time to really work on it... I've struck a deal with a buddy of mine and he is now helping me with the project. He is currently working on getting cam's plotted in Illinois and Oklahoma. I'm currently working on getting the remaining cams from the TRIMARC network in and around Louisville, KY. Then I'll be moving on other states - namely, South Dakota and Kansas. I have a few I need to edit/plot here in North Dakota and Nebraska and have other states I want to get a good start on, as well. I have several days off here over the next week, so I'm hoping to work on this a lot more. It's progressing and I think once I get it all done (if I ever do!) it will be something very unique. Something that just isn't available anywhere else. And will be something that everyone can use!
It's a very tedious thing, but I have confidence it's something I can work on and complete. I've already approached the boss at work on possibly assigning Office Shifts this summer to working on it even further. It is something that directly affects our responsibilities at work (we already have something fairly similar in place, just not using the Google Map API functions) so I don't see why I wouldn't (or shouldn't) be allowed to work on it. The only problem I see is that I need a PC that has Google Earth installed on it - so I can actually do the work, and that has connectivity to the Internet. I'm not so sure Doug (our Sys-Admin) will be too happy with having another computer on the network. But, given the validity of the project, he "should" allow access for me. We'll see how that goes!
Anyhow, that's probably enough writing to make up for the past month that I haven't written anything. I'm off to find something for dinner.
Hope all is well with everyone!
Ah, and go Cubbies! - it's so great to see a return to baseball season! ;)
It's an annual thing in this part of the country, to have these episodes in the early spring. I remember having a similar issue last year at this time but certainly don't remember having dealt with it this long. It's been in the paper and on the news over the past week, so apparently I'm not the only one around the area complaining to the city utilities. I can't really describe the smell, but it's very similar to the smell of chlorine. Imagine smelling it every time you go to take a shower, every time you go to wash your hands, brush your teeth or wash the dishes. It's very much annoying.
Apparently, the snow melt contributes to the problems - and how the water treatment plant here treats our water. Some sort of chemical they use results in the putrid smell. It, obviously doesn't do any harm, but either way, it's a pain in the ass.
So, I'm hoping everyone out there is doing well... I'm wicked sorry for taking so long between posts, folks! I feel it's been forever since I last wrote anything in my blog. I feel horrible, because there are times when I have strange (and such random) thoughts trickling through my mind and just KNOW you all would love to hear about them. Believe me, I've had some very strange things rattling around up there in that empty shell, lately... ;)
I'm hoping I can most past my laziness and become more proactive with my blog. And I'm seriously reconsidering my WeatherBlog. Even though my participation really fell off with that, as well, chase season is just around the corner up here in North Dakota and really, I'd like to have a place I can share all my chasing adventures and mis-adventures with you all once again. We're hoping for a great chase season in these parts!
What else has been going on here lately? Not much really new. Work has been a little stressful lately. I came off the midnight shift (12am - 8am) this morning and now have a couple of days off. I've had to deal with Alberta for 5 days straight and that's never fun. I used to enjoy working on the Alberta forecasts, but anymore, I get real tired of worrying about the precipitation forecasts up there. It's so large of an area and you're forced to have to work off of satellite imagery to locate your initialized precip. Canadian radars suck freakin' ass and just never pick up precipitation like it should. On top of that, verification is nearly impossible since surface observations are so sparse up there, especially in the central and northern portions of the province - and that the observations we do get are questionable, at best, most of the time. The one advantage - the westerly Chinooks have finally subsided and that makes the temperature forecasts MUCH easier over the southwest foothill regions.
Anyhow, enough about work... I now have a couple of days off and I'm going to enjoy them as much as possible. I'm going to relax some this evening and have some chores to attend to tomorrow. Laundry is piling up and so are the dishes. And I want to work on my web-cam project some more. That has been progressing rather well lately. I've finally put forth the time to really work on it... I've struck a deal with a buddy of mine and he is now helping me with the project. He is currently working on getting cam's plotted in Illinois and Oklahoma. I'm currently working on getting the remaining cams from the TRIMARC network in and around Louisville, KY. Then I'll be moving on other states - namely, South Dakota and Kansas. I have a few I need to edit/plot here in North Dakota and Nebraska and have other states I want to get a good start on, as well. I have several days off here over the next week, so I'm hoping to work on this a lot more. It's progressing and I think once I get it all done (if I ever do!) it will be something very unique. Something that just isn't available anywhere else. And will be something that everyone can use!
It's a very tedious thing, but I have confidence it's something I can work on and complete. I've already approached the boss at work on possibly assigning Office Shifts this summer to working on it even further. It is something that directly affects our responsibilities at work (we already have something fairly similar in place, just not using the Google Map API functions) so I don't see why I wouldn't (or shouldn't) be allowed to work on it. The only problem I see is that I need a PC that has Google Earth installed on it - so I can actually do the work, and that has connectivity to the Internet. I'm not so sure Doug (our Sys-Admin) will be too happy with having another computer on the network. But, given the validity of the project, he "should" allow access for me. We'll see how that goes!
Anyhow, that's probably enough writing to make up for the past month that I haven't written anything. I'm off to find something for dinner.
Hope all is well with everyone!
Ah, and go Cubbies! - it's so great to see a return to baseball season! ;)
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