Arggh, snowed in and it isn't even Thanksgiving!

[Doc B.]

OK, so as wonderful as the new office is turning out to be, there is one shortcoming. We're snowed in at home and everything but my netbook is at Bottleheadquarters. Expecting about 3" today and the roads are already a black ice disaster between here and the office. So we may be stuck here at the Chateau for a while. I figure it might be a good day to update the forum, so if you have any suggestions let me know. For starters I think I have the info about the new MJE 350s posted in a sticky on each kit forum now.

[JC]

Would it be possible to put that bar of buttons (Home, Help, Search, etc.) at the bottom of the page as well as the top?  I often find myself wishing for a  quick, one-button "Home" route at the bottom of a long page.

The only other thing would be that perhaps these parts and manual updates, along with any "net only" instruction pages, might deserve their own category, so that you could leave everything in one place and users would have a one-stop shop to go to.

EDIT: OK, I see now that I may have a nomenclature problem above:  I don't know if "category" is the right word for what I'm suggesting, maybe "their own forum" would be more correct.

Of course, I have no idea how feasible any of this is...

[dobbykins]

Doc, something I've wanted to point out is that the forum link on the Delivery Status page still links to the old forum.  I imagine this could be confusing to some folks; perhaps this would be a good time to take the chance to fix it.

Thanks!
Guy

[Doc B.]

Thanks for the ideas, guys. We're still not able to get to the office today (it's a balmy 23 degrees F here this morning, 10 with the wind chill). From my netbook I can only make changes like moving forum posts and such, I'm not able to upload HTML page code changes. I'll try to update the links when the snow melts enough that we can get to the office, which is looking like maybe Friday at this point.

[ironbut]

Might be a good time for you and Eileen to get reacquainted (if you get my drift,.. may be not the best word).
Or fire up a pipe load and hunker down with a good book.
After all, in a storm like this, you might not have power at the shop anyway! (or it could be flickering in and out)
 I remember I was doing a job in Santa Cruz during a huge El Nino storm and risked my life to get there. Of course when I did, the power was out!

[ironbut]

I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't make some suggestions on good "snow day" reading.
Here's some things that might be of particular interest to you.

http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9781581605242

[Doc B.]

Might be a good time for you and Eileen to get reacquainted (if you get my drift,.. may be not the best word).
Or fire up a pipe load and hunker down with a good book.
After all, in a storm like this, you might not have power at the shop anyway! (or it could be flickering in and out)
 I remember I was doing a job in Santa Cruz during a huge El Nino storm and risked my life to get there. Of course when I did, the power was out!

We have done the white knuckle drives on solid ice around here in the past. I don't need to do that any more, and the road to our office can be one of the worst (and the office probably doesn't have power anyway). It seems like it should be a relatively mellow climate here, but the problem with that is the weather bounces up and down around freezing and the daytime snowmelt builds up this really nasty layer of ice on the roads when the sun goes down. On top of that there were 50 MPH winds last night. 40,000 homes are without power, most all stores are closed, there are abandoned cars and buses blocking major thoroughfares. We have power and we have a half bottle of single malt left (OMG we ran out of GIN!), so we should be good until at least tomorrow morning...of course we can eat the goats if it gets really bad.

To stay busy I brought the late 50's Telefunken Salzburg III console that I've been meaning to restore for the past 15 years in off the frozen front porch. Had the cabinet cleaned and oiled and the radio running great last night, even had my AEG 76 tape deck running through it. Pulled the chassis to recap it today and now it won't play. Ah well, that creates something to do tomorrow while we wait for the temp to climb up and the rain to come. Figure we'll be back in the office on Friday if the weather forecast holds. (s***ty iPhone pic, sorry)

[Maxwell_E]

I'm glad I'm not back in Poulsbo right now. I'll take Bozeman's current -6 degrees and snowfall of about 0.75inches/hour. It sounds like all of the Puget Sound is a disaster area.

[JC]

Yeah, we get that freezing rain crap here now, too.  In my youth, the freezing rain line was about a hundred miles to the south; we skipped that and went straight to snow.  Since things have warmed up in general over the decades, we get the rain and the snow has gone north.

Of course, it doesn't help that everyone seems to treat winter like it never happened ever before.  Every year!

You might want to install an old-timey telephone answerer on a line at the office, one with no battery back-up.  Makes a cheap remote power-on indicator!

Be safe!

[Grainger49]

Yesterday watching the national forecast I thought you would have rain to wash all the ice off.  But that stuff is too general to show exact locations.

Just keep warm.

[Paul Joppa]

Just keep warm.

It's supposed to get into the 20's by this afternoon ...

Yes we have hills. And black ice under the snow. And no clue how to handle any of it. (Us Seattle drivers are pretty clueless most of the time, but it gets a lot worse when there's snow and ice.)

[Wardsweb]

Sorry to hear of all the weather issues. It's in the 70's here today. Cold front coming in tomorrow that will drop us into the 50's. That's parka weather here. LOL! On a bright note: it was nice today, so I drove my 1955 Belair to work. Man I love big iron; cars and transformers.