LRET 5: Waiting for snow

All right. You might have heard about the imaginary TV channels I have imagined... And the callsign system where L stands for Laguja and the rest of three letters are the call letters... But leaving that aside, a "transcript" from my fantasies...

SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER 2007
LRET 5
10:02 ESTONIAN STANDARD TIME
Reporter: "... will be brown, maybe even green. Josh Nirmi, LRET 5, Laguja."
News anchor: "All right, we have now a breaking news story to follow. We have just been notified that it is snowing outside.
IDENT: BREAKING NEWS
News anchor: "We are now looking at a live shot from Laguja and yes, it is snowing. Some areas outside are turning white - this is snow. We will now continue from our weather edition, go ahead Brian."
Brian, weatherman: "All right, good early morning to everybody in the US, and good forenoon to viewers in Estonia. It is quite unorthodox for us here in Estonia, where snow is common at winters, to do a breaking news on even a small snowflake, but we are becoming desperate here. Looking now outside at the live shot, it is indeed snowing. Snow is gathering in some places. You can see how it is turning whiter. However, this is not much giving hope for Christmas, as it may melt at every time. Now let's take a look at the current weather conditions. Temperature is hovering at 32 degrees Fahrenheit - still very hot. The precipitation may turn into sleet or rain at any time. We don't want to be Grinches, but I am afraid that I can't deny it: we here in Estonia must face Christmas without snow for a second year in a row."
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10:13 Simulcast from LWTV
Reporter 3: "Well, we are facing a sad truth here. The snow has turned wet again, and it was just a teaser for us. I am signing off, no more snow here"
News anchor at LWTV: "So so much for the snowfall. It has either stopped or turned into sleet or rain. Let's have look at the Christmas forecast now."
Weather announcer at LWTV: "All right, the weather is still expected to be a Grinch. For the Christmas Day, we are expecting windy, cloudy and hot day, with temperatures over 0 degrees Celsius. Winds may gust up to 8 meters per second in our area here, but gusts may be higher in the coastal areas. Sorry, White Christmas will be just a dream this year, just like a year ago. Taking now a look at the longer range forecasts and we will see that as the new week progresses, weather finally starts to get colder, with temperatures going to negative sides of Celsius scale. It might turn below freezing point already at Boxing Day, but still, we are not expecting any precipitation. Back to you"
News anchor at LWTV: "So much for this newscast right now, now back to programming"
IDENT: "This is LWTV, The Weather Day"
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Note: I am desperate for snow! Looks like there will be a Christmas without snow for 2nd year in a row

Update to my political views on American scale

You are a Social Liberal (60% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (20% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat (20e/60s) Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Did I forget something?

Oh yes, to write here. It has been ages since I wrote here. Well, to round up things, I just say that I hopefully managed to graduate 11th grade and I hope I also continue studies at 12th. However, nothing is sure. In less than 2 and a half months, I will be officially a grown-up, on 6 September, I will turn 18, and per Estonian laws, that makes me a grown-up. However, I am feared of this though - I've got to start paying taxes, army probably tries to drag me into it(mandatory army service in Estonia :( ) despite my Aspergers Syndrome and the other fun stuff...

Honestly, I am afraid of growning up... Especially that I might not have all the mental abilities needed for a grown up. Well, let's live one day at a time... However, I am looking toward this autumn with worry... I hope this wouldn't be so scary though...

On Linux for some time

Well, yesterday at about 8:45 PM, computer went wacko. Mozilla Firefox didn't open anymore after clicking on its icon and after managing to reset its settings using MF Safe mode, the browser opened, but then it hard disk went active and this ended up in complete freeze of the computer. Well, I don't know what's up. I did virus check and spyware check(there were some registry entries found though...). Well, I think that mother has to call one of our relative who knows the computers better than I and who restored lost files after a virus deleted them in 2004.

Until things get fixed, I am running computer from Knoppix Live CD. Besides that it is Linux, not Windows, it runs from CD and therefore uses hard disk only for its swapfile... Well, please pray that things get fixed and everything would be OK.

Knoppix is kind of interesting, it has its own Winamp-like media player, it has 2 web browsers and many other useful tools... If I only could get MIDI and Windows Media to work...

Whoa

I almost fell out of my chair when I found out(thanks to Google) this morning that as of year 2000, 25 thousand Estonians were living in USA and Florida was ranked 5th in the states what have Estonians... Well, I think I will become more active in tropics section of Estonian weather forum this summer. Yesterday I heard about deadly tornadoes in Central Florida. I hope that there weren't any Estonians affected...

Whoa...