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Figgy1

Figgy1

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MinnieM123 said:
Haven't time here this morning to catch up with whatever is going on in The Land, but none of this sounds good at all. I'll catch up tomorrow--gotta go out now and shovel out car. Good thing this morning is that work managers know everyone will be late this morning, due to post-storm issues. (Leisurely plans on grabbing a donut on way to work today . . . :p )
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Good luck and stay safe!
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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MinnieM123 said:
Haven't time here this morning to catch up with whatever is going on in The Land, but none of this sounds good at all. I'll catch up tomorrow--gotta go out now and shovel out car. Good thing this morning is that work managers know everyone will be late this morning, due to post-storm issues. (Leisurely plans on grabbing a donut on way to work today . . . :p )
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Good luck and stay safe!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Gabe1 said:
Per person entering the escape room.
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Ours go by room and the more people in your party, the less it costs per person. Some have a minimum number of people and Max per room is usually around 6-8. But it's hard to solve a room with only 2 people anyway. You need to be able to work on several puzzles at once, so it's nice to have around 4 people...enough to do the puzzles, but not so many that you get in each other's way. But that's why I asked you if it was per person or per room....because per room, ours are usually around 90-100 Euros, but if you divide that among 4 people, it's only 25 per person.

Gabe1 said:
Topic Autism
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I saw something like this on the Big Bang Theory. It was a sort of sensor and an app to tell the user what the emotions were. Sheldon ended up not really liking it. It sounds really great in theory, but it doesn't tell you WHY a person is feeling the way they are, so it's not as helpful as you think. A lot of times, my son will do something he thinks is hilarious, we tell him to please stop and he doesn't. He can tell we are getting angry when he continues, but he doesn't make the connection with his behavior and our anger...he doesn't realize we're angry because he's not listening. As cool as the technology is, I wonder how helpful it will actually be.

Gabe1 said:
Connect the dots for me...how is The Lands 'Circle of Life' connected to a New Brazil Pavilion? And is Circle of Life destined to close because...:confused:
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Where did they claim there is a connection? I saw that Circle of Life is closing, but what I read didn't give any information about a replacement or about a Brazil pavilion.

Gabe1 said:
I don't have a firestix but I have a RoKu pretty much the same. It is the size of a memory stick with a remote control for the TV. We take it with us on all hotel vacations. You stick it in the tv and it hooks up to the internet in the hotel/resort. You can then access your own subscriptions like Netflix, Hulu etc. When I bought it the cost was like $40 but gives us access to movies or TV shows we like to watch while drifting off to sleep. So many hotels have very limited stations offered especially Disney where you'll never find competing stations to the Disney Family ownerships like Nick at Nite or anything that competes with ABC Channels. I can also steam in my ATT Uverse if I want which is awesome. So worth the $40. We are a family that has always slept with noise. My kids grew up with TVs in their rooms and always fell asleep with TVs on as they were never kids that fell asleep easily and neither was I. Today we all still fall asleep with the background noise of a TV. If netflix goes to pause in a hotel room or at home we are the type that wake up and turns clicks yes still watching and then drifts back off to sleep. Silence is not golden within my family dynamic. So for those who do not enjoy total quiet while sleeping Firestix or Roku's are awesome while traveling.
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We don't use noise to sleep and we spend so little time in a hotel room, we don't watch much TV. I can see it being handy in a storm situation where you're stuck inside, but for us, for normal use, I can't see us getting our money's worth. I bet it's great with little ones though.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Gabe1 said:
And not unusual. Florida was hurricane Central in the 90's and early '00 then almost a decade off. The world easily forgets the devastation Hurricanes like Hugo and Charlie caused like this is a new thing with Irma and Maria. I was on property for Charlie and Irma and (I say this couched cause it was awful in so many places off property,) Charlie was beyond nasty on property.

I grew up in a tornado path that has shifted somewhat due south of us over the last decade but this summer showed us it could return at anytime and did. We had beyond ugly life ending blizzards in 67, 79 and 11 The most fridged of weather -30 in 1983 & 84 back to back. It is nasty cold now but still worse then. Yet in 1995 we had a 5 day heat wave of 106 that killed 739 people.

Me I am of the belief it is weather and weather patterns that are far from any pattern from Florida to IL. They each go through changes annually and by decades. Now we have drama in Weather. We hear fear in forecasts on the news introducing terms like bomb cyclone and bombgensis. Media delivers what creates ratings. Last year we had snow in December and a mild winter after that. Both February and March cold months for us were Spring-ish. Yet since Christmas it is a bitter cold that isn't breaking. It isn't new, in 1982 I went to Mass on Christmas day in a windbreaker. The next year it was -30.

Statistics are funny numbers and calibrated to the outcome often that one wants to project. We even see that with Disney when they state surveys say this is what our guests want....yet none of us recall those surveys.
Funny numbers and I don't take a lot of stock in numbers that can easily be manipulated.
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Agree. I remember winters in NYC where there were loads of snow storms, particularly in 1993-94. That was the year dh and I started dating. We would have our date night on Fridays since we were both still in school. It snowed just about every Friday that winter. We would say, "Well it's Friday, so it's snowing." I also remember bad winters in the 80's where even NYC schools were closed. That never happened. Jim Cantore actually screwed up yesterday. He called the storm a Nor'easter, which is what I had called it because of the swirling hurricane shape. This whole bombogenesis thing is a newer term and supposed to create great fear. They have 24 hour weather channels now that didn't exist decades ago. Who is going to watch weather all day? They have to make things "interesting". And yes, numbers especially to the hundredths or tenths of a percent can easily be manipulated to reach a wanted conclusion.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Gabe1 said:
At least your vehicle handles well in the snow. Blessed are those who have 4x4 in this crud.
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I don't use the 4x4 ability of it too often. It comes with it, which is handy when I don't feel comfortable with bad road conditions. They do a really good job on the roads here in PA. Even my little development gets the roads cleaned quickly by the town we live in after a snowfall.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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It is garbage pick up today, and first thing I did was check to see that our garbage can was still standing. It was so windy last night. Still windy now with a peak of 21mph in the last hour. :eek:I love our personal weather station. :happy:I also checked the weather and our expected high temperatures have dropped even more Monday was finally supposed to be in the mid to upper 30's to help melt this stuff, but nope, high of 33 with a chance of an icy mix.:banghead: I hope not. Ice is worse than snow. :mad:If someone could just invent a really big fan and blow this bad weather away, I would appreciate that.:D
 

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