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Went downstairs to add water to the furnace and found that nature beat me to it adding a foot of water to my entire basement.
So blogging will be lighter as I start with the buckets and the maybe grabbing a pump.
Update: It’s amazing how unimportant politics is when you have a cellar to clean out.
And we got hit with a fair amount of it this morning. Really wet heavy stuff.
I had a little digging this morning but a whole lot less than I should have since my neighbor across the street decided to snowblow the heavy wet stuff out for me. This person doesn’t just have the milk of human kindness, he has it homogenized and pasteurized.
Can you believe he did all that work for me?
I was actually in a hurry to get to Romano’s since he had agreed to let me film him actually making sausage, however because it was so slow by the time I got there he had already made it.
The freshest sausage you can get.
Next week I’ll be sure to get there at 9 a.m. I’ll also see if I can catch him making the corned beef for St. Patrick’s day. He has hundreds of pounds of it already on order from customers.
When I got outside I was surprised to see a cameraman filming across the street from the place.
Live from the Romano's parking lot!
So knowing me what do you think came next, you guessed it…
What I think is even more interesting than that 120-1 ratio between film shot and film left on the cutting room floor would be the editing process. How does one decide which 60 seconds are the best 60 seconds for a broadcast?
Had to run a batch of raw wings to a friends house where they will be cooking them (brown sugar recipe). Much to my shock the main roads are all clear and the secondary roads are all done excellently.
That doesn’t sound like Fitchburg to me but I’ll take it.
A promising sign!
A few years ago at Foxwoods (my last time there) a fellow at the Craps table was dropping $100 chips on the 15-1 single roll line table. (most people play $1 on that line)
For those of you not familiar with the game, in addition to all the other bets there are single roll bets. You can bet on a 3 (as he was). If the three comes up on that roll it pays 15-1. If it doesn’t then you lose.
Since the odds of getting that 3 are 16-1 Gambler’s fallacy not withstanding most of the time you lose, but for whatever reason that fellow managed to hit on the third roll from and walked away with $1200 ahead after only a minute or so. I’ve been to foxwoods maybe a dozen times in my life and this is the only time I’ve seen it happen.
I live in Northern Worcester County Massachusetts. When a snow storm comes through almost invariably we get the majority of the snow as compared to Boston and the cape, but once in a while the storm comes more from the sea than from the land. In those cases like today’s storm Boston and the Cape get nailed and we get off much easier. Even rarer is the case when we get off with practically nothing.
Yesterday I was all ready. Bought a new shovel, ice melt, went to the 4 p.m. mass instead of the 8 a.m. as I normally do, parked the cars strategically in the driveway and kept track a weather.com. The indications were the snow would start around 5 p.m. (No snow) , then 7 (no snow), then 10 (no snow). When I went upstairs at 11 and still saw no snow I was pleased since my oldest was getting out of work at 11. I fully expected to wake up a fair amount on the ground and a lot of work shoveling to do.
Instead when I looked outside this morning there was barely a dusting on anything. Snow is coming down but not all that fast. In the hour I’ve been of bed not even an inch has accumulated.
It doesn’t happen often but it looks like I’ve rolled that 3. I think I might buy a lottery ticket at Romano’s this morning, gambler’s ruin not withstanding.
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