Cakxit

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 2:43:24 PM UTC-6, howard banks wrote:
I vote with Kirk. Wonder if enough of us vote we can force them to exit?

Well, Howard. They are all in favor of "Majority Rules", so I would guess that if the US took a vote, the rest of the states could vote California out.

Having grown up (if men ever really grow up) in Idaho, but being a 30 year resident of California, I can tell you I am very happy here. Three reasons the weather, the weather and the weather. It is freaking perfect! Sure, we have landslides, earth quakes, wildfires and riots, hell if we had a volcano we would be a full service disaster center. State government can't decide if it is red or blue, certainly highly regulated, but did I mention the weather?

Not so much this year, but for the first ten years I lived in San Diego, my senses were not refined enough to distinguish between summer and winter. Couldn't figure out why the beaches were empty after Labor Day. After years of practice I can now tell the differences between summer and winter. Winter usually has colder nights, you might need a light jacket a few nights a year, and water temps are lower, wet suit recommended for swims of over 30 minutes from thanksgiving to Presidents Day. As I type this it is 69 degrees and sunny, similar for tomorrow and most days of the year. I am going wherever the state goes.

Throw all the flames you want, I am staying with the perfect weather. Not humid, not too hot nor too cold.

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 1:32:19 AM UTC+3, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Having grown up (if men ever really grow up) in Idaho, but being a 30 year resident of California, I can tell you I am very happy here. Three reasons the weather, the weather and the weather. It is freaking perfect! Sure, we have landslides, earth quakes, wildfires and riots, hell if we had a volcano we would be a full service disaster center. State government can't decide if it is red or blue, certainly highly regulated, but did I mention the weather?

Not so much this year, but for the first ten years I lived in San Diego, my senses were not refined enough to distinguish between summer and winter.. Couldn't figure out why the beaches were empty after Labor Day. After years of practice I can now tell the differences between summer and winter. Winter usually has colder nights, you might need a light jacket a few nights a year, and water temps are lower, wet suit recommended for swims of over 30 minutes from thanksgiving to Presidents Day. As I type this it is 69 degrees and sunny, similar for tomorrow and most days of the year. I am going wherever the state goes.

Throw all the flames you want, I am staying with the perfect weather. Not humid, not too hot nor too cold.

Sounds like where I grew up, 100 miles or so north of Auckland in that long narrow peninsular.

Sadly there aren't many of my kind of job there, but there is a decent gliding club.

...but being a 30 year
resident of California, I can tell you I am very happy here. Three reasons
the weather, the weather and the weather. It is freaking perfect! Sure,
we have landslides, earth quakes, wildfires and riots, hell if we had a
volcano we would be a full service disaster center.

Ha ha ha! You may get your wish in your soaring lifetime, and if judging by
torched wheat stubble is a good guide, plan on riding one hellacious IFR
thermal when (say) Shasta goes. IFR or not, it'll be completely safe, too,
thanks to the latest (illegal in U.S. contests, so I read on RAS) A/H
technologies now rampant in glider cockpits. As with any thermal, timing will
be everything, I'll bet...

Living in Colorado, I'm waiting for Yellowstone to blow, myself.

Bob - is it still winter? - W.