Good morning!!!!

[Rotax]

3F here and we just had a nice light snow over night. Back to work today for me, was off 5 days! Have a great day everyone!

 

[farmer2009]

19 this morning and headed to 40 today. Time to bite the bullet and go get taxes done. They are due Monday. Then back to clean up chicken houses and maybe put out some rat bait.

Drew, nice snow cover you have. Enjoy it I doubt you will see it every year. And if you do the locals may start to think you brought it with you from those snowy places up north. Laughing

 

[Eric Salop]

Cut my eye teeth writing assembly for 8080 and 8085 CPUs, then "graduated" to Fortran and C on DEC minis and main frames. Man, that was a LONG time ago, and probably the best part of my career, before all the politics crept in. But I started as a weldor, and picked up a lot of trade skills along the way. Love them big V8s and huntin' an' fishin', too, but the best part is livin' out in the middle of nowhere... :cloud9:

Well RedNeck and the rest of you techies, I never expected that one day I would get to be an old guy reminiscing with other tractor enthusiasts about the good old days of assembler code, PDP-11's and VAX minis.

We were also taught Fortran at college, which looking back was a great introduction to the world of computing.
Our programs went into a big mainframe on punched cards. I re-cycled all the cards for target practice at weekends with an air rifle.

I must be old as I had to program my first micro's (Rockwell 6502, later 8085 & TI micro's), using a paper and pencil to write in MACHINE CODE.
High Tech in those days was the ability to save the binary code as FSK tones on a cassette tape. Assembler came along later in life.

A while later high level languages like Pascal and "C" came made an appearance.
Even then some people preferred to stick with assembler (it was slightly more efficient), while all those who wanted an easy life soon saw that high level was the way to go.
Very much like the way some people still prefer to use a clutch pedal, while us lazy folk prefer HST ...

 

[deerseeker001]

-8 this morning with some clouds and Sun a high of 10 today.We will have Wind chills -10/-15

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

just looked at national radar
It's snowing in Texas!
that seems to be the front headed our way, seems far away to get here by tonight.
I wonder how Texans drive in the snow...

Its the interstate truckers causing many of the pile ups in Dallas.area.

 

[daugen]

driving really was bad out this morning, ice over everything, they don't plow at all....I talked with the men at Table 1
in the local greasy spoon, and they said none of them were willing to pay for plows it snowed so infrequently and melted so quickly. Very little traffic, everyone going sensibly about 20-25mph. Ruts in road were clear so something to get a bite in, though my dually winds up on the right side. Finally got to put it in 4wd. But I drove around today in 2wd. Plenty of grip in town where they sanded, but out in the country where I am, Mother Nature put it down and Mother Nature will melt it off.
That was about the jist of this morning's conversation. Though the landscapers and tree guys were moaning that they couldn't do anything today, couldn't drive equipment over muddy yards, etc.
Since they aren't set up to deal with snow, they are really spinning their wheels, literally and figuratively.

what is more interesting is the constantly changing weather forecast. Now instead of 5-8 inches of snow they have made this area a cusp area where North and West of us the one to two inches of rain they predict is going to create a real problem outside of my somewhat buffered coastal area. We are predicted to stay at 31 degrees so one never knows.
one to two inches of rain is a lot of snow for someone.

And if by some impossible chance we get that much snow here, I always have the bucket on the Kubota.
I already bought thirty two loaves of bread and a fifty five gallon drum of milk so I'll be fine....

well, no kid showed up, so down I go to the barn to unwrap the shovels. I have to at least do my walkway...
Not much, no strain. Just enough in fact.
Going to take the golf cart out and see if I can do some donuts. I know, ever so childish. :thumbsup:
but I was motivated by:Drew, are you not retired?
Yes, so while I have to shovel the walkway, I get to screw around too....

 

[rswyan]

19.8F and sunny outside @ 10:00 ...

Slept like a log ...

Going over to mill an edge on the wedge for the splitter here in a bit after I've had my coffee and really woken up.

Would be nice to get the driveway cleared off before the temp drops tonight and the next snow hits ... but I dunno ... warm shop ... cold tractor seat ... hmmm ...

Hope everyone has an enjoyable and productive day.

 

[rswyan]

... somehow I have a vision of a big gear half in the oil, and the top part getting rusty...needs a dunk.

But ... but ... you'll wear the paint off'n it !

:laughing:

 

[JDgreen227]

Just got home from a grocery run...store was almost empty...bitter cold here today..zero at 7 am and only 6 degrees right now. Roads are slick from traffic packing down the 3" of new powder snow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

A while later high level languages like Pascal and "C" came made an appearance.
Even then some people preferred to stick with assembler (it was slightly more efficient), while all those who wanted an easy life soon saw that high level was the way to go.
Very much like the way some people still prefer to use a clutch pedal, while us lazy folk prefer HST ...

The last code project I had was written in Java and it was very nice NOT to have to manage memory. Wonderful libraries available, too, so much so that most of my code just patched together pieces that did the real work. But I suppose that's why computers now have gigabytes of memory vs. 512 kbytes of those first PDP systems.

And yes, I'm definitely an auto transmission/HST fan, though I still prefer a clutch on the motorcycles as there is less to break.