Hey all!
I know, I know. I've not been good at posting lately. It's sad at how bad I am right now especially since I'm not terribly busy. It really is true, when you spend all day on the computer, you don't want to come home to it. It was easier when I just had a few minutes a day to get on, e-mail and posting. Now I've checked my e-mail at work all day, so I don't want to get online when I get home. It's just so easy to be lazy. This week has flown by, like the last few weeks, it's hard to believe it's past Valentine's day. Now decorating for St. Patricks day and Easter since they are so gosh darn close.
Things are going well, I went home last week to see my family and to celebrate my mom's birthday! Yea mom! This week I worked off and on and now I have a couple days off, thus I'm not in bed right now. I've got my apartment pretty well organized, and so after work and days off are days just awaiting my journal article. I'm trying to get it done.
Things at work are good, it's crazy though, these storm systems. I'm sick of these weekly winter storm systems, as are most people in the area. Everyone gives Meteorologists a bad time saying "the only profession to be wrong half the time and still get paid", hey it's fricken hard sometimes. The last couple big storm systems are just crazy hard to forecast, consantly changing. It all takes our schooling many years of knowledge, but forecasting is done best with help from models, and when they don't handle a storm system to well, then it doesn't matter what we know...it's ever changing. And to be honest, it's still amazing to me at how good the models actually are. They may be off on some timeing, but they get every big system, 7 days out, it's amazing really. Think back just a few 10's of years when all you could probably get was a few day forecast, and now 7 days out is pretty descent, at least for the trend...warmer/colder/chance for precip. So think about it before you jump on critizing your local weather person...it's not an easy job. I myself have not exempt from making the slide comment, but I am now in it every day. I still wonder at times if this is a dream or not.
I am to my normal being at a new place lull though, the time when it's not so new anymore, but you don't have any friends yet. I'm so gracious for my friends that have come up to Wichita, but sometimes it'd be nice to go out somewhere in Wichita. I know, it's my own fault....it just takes me a little while to get involved in things at each move. It will happen...time will show it. I've got a positive outlook with my current lull.
Missing you all, and sending my love on this Valentine's week and always!
