After the meeting today, I think that decision has already been made.

Good or bad??

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

Pray that you don't get a permanent time off.

I think that's what he's talking bout.

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I think that's what he's talking bout.

Oh...

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

I have a strong dislike for electrical work.


Voltage? Amperage? Single pole? Double pole?


Somebody get me a drink.

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What? Do they have a bunch of bad [BLEEP] looking bicycles chained up out in front of it?

Not chained up but every Monday there's a couple of Harley's lined up outside and some during the rest of the week as well.

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Honestly I've been increasingly debased and altogether reprehensible (debauchedness-based, I'm never without the integrity from ne my fellows decide to earn treatment with, just don't care that my lifestyle wears on my face so much anymore) with each passing year I can't apprehend as a measurement of time anymore. I need rehab, quite badly. But I'm too good at what I do, I'm not the hormonal neophyte always contemplating mass destruction the second my 'pleasure sensors' begin to 'deplete.' And i can binge with a point, 'can't hardly breathe' thick ones and all, you won't see me suffering the sort of psychosis that inclines one to unload a chopper clip into the empty night ..bushes. Dangerous folk there, I openly point them in the 'hell na bruh don't come over here with that' direction.


All the same tho, what's new I guess. You do recall my particular vein of chemical affliction, don't you? 'Not even once,' they say, why ofc not, 'All my life.'

Howdy stranger!! Where have you been hiding yourself??

Honestly I've been increasingly debased and reprehensible with each passing year I can't apprehend as a measurement of time anymore. I need rehab, quite badly. But I'm too good at what I do, I'm not the hormonal neophyte always contemplating mass destruction the second my 'pleasure sensors' begin to 'deplete.' And i can binge with a point, 'can't hardly breathe' thick ones and all, you won't see me suffering the sort of psychosis that inclines one to unload a chopper clip into the empty night ..bushes. Dangerous folk there, I openly point them in the 'hell na bruh don't come over here with that' direction.


All the same tho, what's new I guess. You do recall my particular vein of chemical affliction, don't you? 'Not even once,' they say, why ofc not, 'All my life.'




[BLEEP] yeah evidently I can't properly use a forum so yeah I guess that's another sign that I'm making all the right each subs ... decisions* in life


Got me all usin [BAD WORD REMOVED] on here, I don't like [BAD WORD REMOVED], kinda [BAD WIRD REMOVED] me a little too deep in the [YOU SEE WHERE I'M GOING], hard out here for..... being out here

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"I'll die young, but it's like kissing God."

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

After the meeting today, I think that decision has already been made.

 

 

Good or bad??

 

 

I think that's what he's talking bout.

 

 

Pretty much. I'm not being all gloom and doom about this stuff but it does seem like the writing is on the wall.

 

Now! Which one of y'all wants to hire a snappy dresser Engineer with a quick wit and some minor mommy issues?

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I'm trying to make myself more informed and less opinionated.

Stop saying whatever stupid thing you're talking about and pay attention to all the interesting things I have to say!

Pretty much. I'm not being all gloom and doom about this stuff but it does seem like the writing is on the wall.

 

Now! Which one of y'all wants to hire a snappy dresser Engineer with a quick wit and some minor mommy issues?

Move out here, get a PCA license, roll in dough.

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Pretty much. I'm not being all gloom and doom about this stuff but it does seem like the writing is on the wall.

 

Now! Which one of y'all wants to hire a snappy dresser Engineer with a quick wit and some minor mommy issues?

 

Why?  You know somebody?

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Move out here, get a PCA license, roll in dough.

As soon as I learn how to spell "PCA", you're on!

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I'm trying to make myself more informed and less opinionated.

Stop saying whatever stupid thing you're talking about and pay attention to all the interesting things I have to say!

Why? You know somebody?

Yeah, there's bound to be someone who matches that description getting fired here soon.

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I'm trying to make myself more informed and less opinionated.

Stop saying whatever stupid thing you're talking about and pay attention to all the interesting things I have to say!

...the margarita experiment continues.

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...the margarita experiment continues.

 

Need to repeat the results from the 1st time to confirm your findings huh?

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Watching the movie Leprechaun. Jeez.. Jennifer Aniston was such a hottie back then too..

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Meester Senor Fantastico, I see in the news El Nino is being kind to California by providing some drought relief.  Are things getting better for you?

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Meester Senor Fantastico, I see in the news El Nino is being kind to California by providing some drought relief.  Are things getting better for you?

HB, never ask a farmer about water unless you have a lot of time!


Short answer is yes it's better. I heard yesterday that our snow pack is at 88% of normal. I'm assuming normal is like a 10-year average or something because in the last few years we've had no real snow pack at all.


I like to look at this site <a class="bbc_url" href='http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf'>http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf</a> which shows a pretty quick and easy graph of all our water storage.


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Long answer and long-term wise we'll still be in trouble, we definitely aren't looking at a "one rainy season and your fixed" situation. I'm not sure if your familiar with the Delta Smelt (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/threatened-smelt-touches-off-battles-in-californias-endless-water-wars.html?_r=0'>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/threatened-smelt-touches-off-battles-in-californias-endless-water-wars.html?_r=0</a>) or the San Joaquin Salmon Restoration (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.restoresjr.net'>http://www.restoresjr.net</a>) but basically due to those two issues, it's a constant battle between how much water to send down our rivers and how much to conserve for farming - when we really don't have enough to satisfy either.


Personally I don't take county water (ditch water from the snow pack) but last I heard Madera County will not be allowing water this year and Fresno County will allow two irritations I believe. That's two total waterings to your crop for the year, so if you don't have a pump - it's trouble. For the two big crops, grapes can survive that and produce a half crop. I'm not sure almonds would survive the year with that amount of water - which is kind of what you see when you drive up I5 these days.


I sit right on the County line so I'm surrounded by neighbors either not getting enough water or getting none at all. Some people with a good pump situation began selling water to neighbors and pumping it down to them to help them out last year. I'm not sure it's going to be any better this year or if anyone will be willing to share again this year.


Everyone's solution right now is just to dig deeper wells, which only takes things so far before all of us will really be up a creek. It's kind of like that movie There Will Be Blood. Your neighbor drinks your milkshake.


In the future a lot of us hope we can improve our water storage ability. It's felt that on the whole Ca gets plenty of water in say, a 20-year period - but we don't have enough capacity to store it for the 5-7 year droughts we experience. The main idea most farmers I know get behind is the Temperance Flat Dam Project (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/storage/docs/10-14-2014_meeting/2014102427x39_Portrait_posters.pdf'>http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/storage/docs/10-14-2014_meeting/2014102427x39_Portrait_posters.pdf</a>) but the State decided to build the bullet train instead - which may or may not still happen. Total mess.

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So tonight is a 6.30pm to 6.30am night shift.

 

Normally this would make me a little sad. Tonight, however, the clocks go forward. Meaning it's 'only' an 11 hour shift.

 

I like this. This pleases me.

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80% of what I talk about is nonesense.. the other 25% is made up statistics...


 

I like this. This pleases me.

I will also be doing something between 6:30pm and 6:30 am that I like and which pleases me. On a good day it also please someone else. Today is not one of those days. 

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HB, never ask a farmer about water unless you have a lot of time!


Short answer is yes it's better. I heard yesterday that our snow pack is at 88% of normal. I'm assuming normal is like a 10-year average or something because in the last few years we've had no real snow pack at all.


I like to look at this site <a class="bbc_url" href='http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf'>http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf</a> which shows a pretty quick and easy graph of all our water storage.


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Long answer and long-term wise we'll still be in trouble, we definitely aren't looking at a "one rainy season and your fixed" situation. I'm not sure if your familiar with the Delta Smelt (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/threatened-smelt-touches-off-battles-in-californias-endless-water-wars.html?_r=0'>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/us/threatened-smelt-touches-off-battles-in-californias-endless-water-wars.html?_r=0</a>) or the San Joaquin Salmon Restoration (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.restoresjr.net'>http://www.restoresjr.net</a>) but basically due to those two issues, it's a constant battle between how much water to send down our rivers and how much to conserve for farming - when we really don't have enough to satisfy either.


Personally I don't take county water (ditch water from the snow pack) but last I heard Madera County will not be allowing water this year and Fresno County will allow two irritations I believe. That's two total waterings to your crop for the year, so if you don't have a pump - it's trouble. For the two big crops, grapes can survive that and produce a half crop. I'm not sure almonds would survive the year with that amount of water - which is kind of what you see when you drive up I5 these days.


I sit right on the County line so I'm surrounded by neighbors either not getting enough water or getting none at all. Some people with a good pump situation began selling water to neighbors and pumping it down to them to help them out last year. I'm not sure it's going to be any better this year or if anyone will be willing to share again this year.


Everyone's solution right now is just to dig deeper wells, which only takes things so far before all of us will really be up a creek. It's kind of like that movie There Will Be Blood. Your neighbor drinks your milkshake.


In the future a lot of us hope we can improve our water storage ability. It's felt that on the whole Ca gets plenty of water in say, a 20-year period - but we don't have enough capacity to store it for the 5-7 year droughts we experience. The main idea most farmers I know get behind is the Temperance Flat Dam Project (<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/storage/docs/10-14-2014_meeting/2014102427x39_Portrait_posters.pdf'>http://www.usbr.gov/mp/sccao/storage/docs/10-14-2014_meeting/2014102427x39_Portrait_posters.pdf</a>) but the State decided to build the bullet train instead - which may or may not still happen. Total mess.

Are you guys allowed to harvest rain water at all?

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