Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been canceled early. A slight chance for storms still exists, but the sun hasn’t heated up the atmosphere as it was expected and therefore the atmosphere remains more stable than expected.

We are not all clear when it comes to further storms. The likelihood of them being severe has lessen, but the threat hasn’t disappeared.

It should be noted that this is only the first line of expected storms today.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 9pm.

Looks like the storms are decaying a bit. Lots of lightning, lots of wind, but the severity has disappeared for now.

I might be donning the weather boy cape today.

Things have the chance to get dicey this afternoon and evening.

Ahh, classic victim blaming.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. HAAAAAAA haaaa ha ha ha ha ha. Muah haaaaa haaa hahaha haaaaa!

Donald Trump.

… for…… president…..

HAAAAAAA haaaa ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I watch Curious George with Ryker. Does no one ever get upset that there is a monkey in the kitchen of a restaurant?

Funny enough, this is pretty damn accurate.

I don’t know how we pulled off this trip without a hitch.

Today: the Toledo Zoo and a Barenaked Ladies concert.

I’m not entirely sure the concert will happen as we’re expecting severe thunderstorms to roll in this evening.

Facebook needs to allow us to view a person’s profile in full if they friend invite you. It would save me the trouble of having to accept these people and then blocking them because I find them to be insufferable tools.

He is the champion!

I keep seeing friends share content from “Britain First”. Eeew. They’re an extreme right-wing group with the started desire to protect “British and Christian morality”, and is “committed to preserving the ancestral ethnic and cultural heritage”.

The humidity is impressive. 80% and rising.

I’ve already let go a Facebook friend for defending the Duggars. I hope that’s the only one. cringe

When a young starlet decides to call it quits and live away from the Hollywood bubble.

“I think the concept of virginity was created by men who thought their penises were so important it changes who a woman is.” —Random Internet User

Post-racial America, folks.

So I just finished my entire HTML class in a period of one week. Why would I do this you ask? Because Amazon had a try it before you buy it for my textbook. Instead of paying $126, I had it on my Kindle for 7 days. I finished all 14 assignments in under a week.

My eyes hurt.

Wow. 13-1. Good game Tigers.

I’m watching.

I promise neighbors, once a) I’m not alone with my one year old and b) it’s not raining, I’ll mow the lawn.

This is brilliantly awkward. Love it.

Potential tropical or subtropical development off the east coast of Florida this morning.

Looks like I’ll be buying a Cowboy’s jersey. Congratulations to Isiah Dunning and I imagine to be a very proud mom Loren.

Buddhist holiday celebrating the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha.

This shirt made me laugh.

The Great Southern Michigan Earthquake of 2015 has been upgraded to magnitude 4.2.

Uhm…… earthquake?

He he he

Twitter + MS-DOS games = awesome

!!!!

Getting closer to Pluto!

I’ve dropped more people than I can count today. Oddly enough, the family members are the hardest for me to unfriend. I like to keep up with their going ons.

I’m tired of seeing bullshit on my Facebook feed. Post something racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, body-shaming, slut-shaming, or otherwise insensitive to an individual or a group of people and I’m removing you. Friend or family, it doesn’t matter to me.

If you cherish our relationship or find it important, really think about what you are posting.

I hurt. My delicate computer nerd body wasn’t meant for manual labor.

I’ve seen this shared a few times and thought I’d give you the definitive answer.

The separate lines are not marked with an operator. Therefore, this problem can be seen as:

(1+1+1+1+1)(1+1+1+1+1)(1+1*0+1)

Which reduces to:

(5)(5)(2)

Which means the answer is: 50.

Oh the places you will go on the internet.

I have learned of the “magic roundabout” and wish US cities would adopt them!

Poof!

:/

Oh the places you go on the internet.

You share 12.5% of your genes with your first cousin.

If two siblings marry two siblings, their offspring would be double first cousins. They would share 25% of their genes making them equivalent to an aunt/uncle - niece/nephew, grandparent - grandchild, and half-siblings.

Now, if identical twins are to marry another set of identical twins, then their children would share 50% of their genes with each other and would be equivalent to full-blooded siblings.

Other interesting things: 1st cousins share 12.5% of their genetic material, 2nd cousins: 3.125%, third cousins: .781%, fourth cousins: .195%. Statistically you’re in the clear to get your cousin loving on if you’ve successfully blocked out the Westermarck effect - reverse sexual imprinting - that prevents us from getting it on like some medieval royal family.

Today’s expected high is 73°! It will truly feel like spring.

Suddenly facebook is recommending a bunch of Koreans as people I may know. I don’t know anyone from Korea.

Our New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons. The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons has traveled a longer time and farther away – more than nine years and three billion miles – than any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Its flyby of Pluto and its system of at least five moons on July 14 will complete the initial reconnaissance of the classical solar system. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1DFEzJi

#NASABeyond

Yesterday was the first time my fantasy baseball team disappointed me. Then I discovered that the player that tanked my team did so because he took a batted ball to the face.

Ouch :(

Holli Christensen

If I could find a bunch of songs that sounds similar to the opening theme of House of Cards, I could jab some headphones in my ears and walk around like the badass I know I’m not. :)

Congratulations to Trevor Noah.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th’ offender, yet detest th’ offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love? Unequal task! a passion to resign, For hearts so touch’d, so pierc’d, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How often must it love, how often hate! How often hope, despair, resent, regret, Conceal, disdain–do all things but forget. But let Heav’n seize it, all at once ’tis fir’d; Not touch’d, but rapt; not waken’d, but inspir’d! Oh come! oh teach me nature to subdue, Renounce my love, my life, myself–and you. Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he Alone can rival, can succeed to thee.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;

“Eloisa to Abelard” Alexander Pope

You should definitely defriend anyone you find on this list :)

https://www.facebook.com/browse/friended_fans_of/?page_id=389658314427637

Extending the “religious freedom” law.

Uhm. This sounds pretty awesome, actually.

:o

I don’t know what happened, but that was a terrible looking accident in Lowell. :(

The Moment of pi!

Rumbies!

Terry Pratchett :(

I don’t know if our dog will make it to the weekend :(

Have I mentioned how damn awesome my wife is?

Petty suburbites make me laugh.

After this Friday, there is no predicted daytime highs below freezing and only a few nighttime lows below freezing.

Dare I dream of spring.

Clunk clunk clunk. Here comes the falling ice.

“The Dress” has a Wikipedia article now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress_(viral_phenomenon)

If you’re not aware of this, rename a folder “GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}” and reap the benefits of having most every control panel option in one place. Windows Vista and up.

Happy to see the net neutrality rules have been approved.

These are bills I would love to see.

Found on Reddit: a poem about bidets.

Friends and neighbours - sons and daughters - Shout salut to soapy waters! Bid a fond farewell to crusty Paper towels, dry and dusty!

Stand in awe and watch with wonder While the water whooshes under, All around, and over, steaming Through your sweet salvation, gleaming!

Soon you’ll see there’s nothing better, Wiping wise, and washing wetter! So, ‘so long’ to heinies heinous! Love your neat and tidy anus!

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1147 AM EST FRI FEB 13 2015

MIZ037-038-043-044-050-056-057-064-071-140100- /O.UPG.KGRR.WS.A.0002.150214T0600Z-150215T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KGRR.WS.W.0003.150213T2000Z-150215T0300Z/ MASON-LAKE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MUSKEGON-OTTAWA-KENT-ALLEGAN-VAN BUREN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…LUDINGTON…BALDWIN…HART…FREMONT… MUSKEGON…JENISON…GRAND RAPIDS…HOLLAND…SOUTH HAVEN 1147 AM EST FRI FEB 13 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW…BLOWING SNOW…AND EXTREME COLD…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST SATURDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER…

• THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD BLOWING SNOW AND EXTREME COLD. NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP ON SATURDAY WITH WIND CHILLS FALLING WELL BELOW ZERO.

• THE TOTAL SNOW AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE EXCESSIVE AND WILL NOT EXCEED SIX INCHES IN MOST AREAS. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED BY LATE SATURDAY MORNING.

• SNOW WILL INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. THE HEAVIER SNOW BANDS WILL SHIFT AROUND SO THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN THE SNOW DIMINISHES OR ENDS.

• SNOW WILL END SATURDAY EVENING BUT DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 15 TO 30 BELOW ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY MORNING.

IMPACTS…

• ROADS BECOMING SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND DELAYS LIKELY.

• WHITEOUTS IN BLOWING SNOW… ESPECIALLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

• THE BITTER COLD WILL MAKE IT VERY HAZARDOUS IF YOU SHOULD BECOME STRANDED.

• SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES POSSIBLE ON THE LAKESHORE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

• THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS AND DRY POWDERY SNOW WILL LEAD TO INTENSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW ON SATURDAY. VISIBILITIES WILL DROP TOWARDS ZERO AT TIMES. BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER WHITEOUTS ESPECIALLY IN OPEN COUNTRY.

• THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL VALUES SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. FROSTBITE TIMES WILL ONLY BE ON THE ORDER OF 10 TO 20 MINUTES. LIMIT YOUR TIME OUTSIDE AND DRESS IN MULTIPLE LAYERS THIS WEEKEND.

Late 2015 or early 2016.

I saw a thread with some spectacularly terrible dating advice today. The mind blowing part was everyone voicing their agreement with said advice.

Doing class work and suddenly I hear Ryker giggling in his sleep over the monitor. :D

With the NFL season wrapped up, this means one exciting thing for me: the Southern Hemisphere’s Rugby season begins in the next few weeks.

Four classes, all with a wide variety of different tasks, quizzes, assignment spaces, and external labs, I suppose it was only natural that I would discover one I was supposed to have finished two days ago.

Doh!

I just learned there is a word opposite of don:

doff.

A writer over a Gawker got this right:

Winter storms are not named. The Weather Channel assigns names to winter storms as part of a social media marketing campaign. When you mention “Juno,” you’re participating in the proliferation of Big Weather. Think before you hashtag.

The only acceptable names for this storm are “Blizzard of 2015”, “Thanks Obama,” and “UGH.”

WHAT! Fox is thinking of bringing back the X-Files!?

I’m on board.

Ryker’s first big fever. He’s nearly 102°f :(

First day of the Winter 2015 semester!

Step One: Lots and lots of software installations.

Kraken, why have you forsaken me!?

NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook has been updated.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1122 AM EST THU JAN 8 2015

.DAY ONE…THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

HEAVY SNOW AND NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON. THE SNOW SHOULD BEGIN IN THE LAKE SHORE AREA BETWEEN 2 PM AND 3 PM THEN SPREAD INLAND ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN BY 7 PM. THE WORST OF THE WEATHER IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 300 PM AND MIDNIGHT. SNOWFALL RATES AS HIGH AS 1 TO 2 INCHES AND HOUR ARE EXPECTED OVER THE WESTERN TWO ROWS OF COUNTIES BETWEEN 3 PM AND 10 PM. THE HIGHEST WINDS…GUSTING OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES WILL BE FOUND TOWARDS LAKE MICHIGAN THIS EVENING. THE STRONG WINDS WILL LOFT THE POWDERY SNOW AND RESULT IN WHITEOUTS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT…WHICH WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. IF AT ALL POSSIBLE PLEASE AVOID DRIVING IN THIS AREA DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.

WIND CHILL VALUES WILL REMAIN DANGEROUSLY LOW WITH EXPOSED SKIN FREEZING TIMES OF HALF AN HOUR OR LESS TODAY.

LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH HEAVY SNOW STILL POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 131. AFTER MIDNIGHT THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL WILL BE WEST OF BATTLE CREEK BETWEEN I-94 AND I-96.

ICE JAMS ARE A CONCERN ON AREA RIVERS. FLOODING WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY DUE TO ICE JAM FORMATION AS THE COLD WEATHER CONTINUES.

The Winter Storm Warning has been updated.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 249 PM EST THU JAN 8 2015

MIZ037-038-043-044-050-056-057-064-065-071-072-090400- /O.CON.KGRR.WS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-150109T2100Z/ MASON-LAKE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MUSKEGON-OTTAWA-KENT-ALLEGAN-BARRY-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…LUDINGTON…BALDWIN…HART…FREMONT…MUSKEGON…JENISON…GRAND RAPIDS…HOLLAND…HASTINGS…SOUTH HAVEN…KALAMAZOO 249 PM EST THU JAN 8 2015

…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST FRIDAY…

HAZARDOUS WEATHER…

• SNOW HEAVY AT TIMES AND CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

• 6 TO 10 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH MIDNIGHT THEN ANOTHER 3 TO 6 INCHES BY 4 PM FRIDAY.

• TOTAL SNOW AROUND A FOOT BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS NEAR A FOOT AND A HALF.

• WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH WITH EXTREME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

• VISIBILITIES OFTEN DOWN TO A FEW CAR LENGTHS.

• WIND CHILLS AROUND 10 BELOW.

IMPACTS…

• DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WITH ROADS IMPASSABLE OR CLOSED.

• DANGEROUS TO BE TRAPPED OUTDOORS…30 MINUTES TO FREEZE EXPOSED SKIN.

• SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

• AVOID TRAVEL IF POSSIBLE.

• WEATHER PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON LINE AT WWW.READY.GOV/WINTER AND HTTP://GO.USA.GOV/5OG.

&&

$$

My phone says 2°, the car days 5°. Who do I believe!?

Winter Storm Warning.

WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST FRIDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST FRIDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER…

• HEAVY SNOW BEGINS AROUND 2 PM AND CONTINUES INTO FRIDAY.

• 2 TO 4 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

• TOTAL SNOW FROM 6 INCHES TO AROUND A FOOT BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

• WIND GUSTS NEAR 45 MPH WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

• VISIBILITIES OFTEN DOWN TO A FEW CAR LENGTHS.

• WIND CHILLS AROUND 10 BELOW.

IMPACTS…

• DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WITH ROADS IMPASSABLE OR CLOSED.

• DANGEROUS TO BE TRAPPED OUTDOORS…30 MINUTES TO FREEZE EXPOSED SKIN.

• SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW WITH BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW …WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THURSDAY TO 4 PM EST FRIDAY. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM FRIDAY.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER …

• SNOW BEGINS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUES INTO FRIDAY.

• 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED BY 4 PM FRIDAY.

• FREQUENT BLOWING AND DRIFTING WITH WIND GUSTS NEAR 45 MPH.

• VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO AT TIMES IN THE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.

• WIND CHILLS AROUND 10 TO 20 BELOW.

IMPACTS …

• DANGEROUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS WITH MANY ACCIDENTS AND SLIDE OFFS.

• DANGEROUS TO BE TRAPPED OUTDOORS …30 MINUTES TO FREEZE EXPOSED SKIN.

• SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES.

Downton Abbey has just started its 5th season in the US. We’ve already watched the whole thing :)

Oh Lions.

I’ve got the Downton Abbey theme song stuck in my head.

Oh Lions.

Sounds like something bad happened in my old hometown of Brimley. :(

Final grades: A, A, B+. This puts me back on the Dean’s List. GPA is now 3.857.

(Who is Dean, and why does he have me on a list!?)

The fact that Dr. Oz is a quack shouldn’t be surprising. At all.

Someone’s in the early Halo 5 beta. :)

Walking with Isabelle in the grocery store, and she makes a poop joke.

Me: (sarcastic) That’s not how young ladies should act.

Belle: What?!

Me: Ha! That was a little too much, even for me. Do you know how a young girl should act?

Belle: How?

Me: Any way she wants. (She smiles.) Well, within reason. I mean, don’t go around punching old people or anything.

Laughter, end scene.

Not only am I homeschooling Belle, raising Ryker to be an awesome little guy, and trying to hammer out a college degree for myself, but now I’ve introduced Belle to World of Warcraft - for which we spend up to an hour playing most nights, and I’m starting to work on a sprawling Pathfinder (Pen&Paper RPG) campaign where the wife and daughter solve mysteries in a fantasy setting. In addition, I’m trying to formulate a return to frequent writing in an attempt to eventually self-publish something. All while trying to keep up with pleasure reading, some infrequent gaming sessions on my Xbox One, and eek out time for my favorite hobby of all: naps.

Oh, and try to keep the house clean~ish.

I need the Earth to spin a little slower so that I may have time to do everything.

SPALSHDOWN!

Orion is on its way back and has a 20,000 MPH date with Earth’s atmosphere.

At 3604.2 miles in altitude, Orion has reached apogee. From here, it’s all downhill to splash-down.