I do that here in NW Rockies. Correct most years.
Forget the Farmer’s Almanac.
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I wish I’d grown up near mountains or the beach to learn to sports accordingly, but no dice.
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You just gotta seek them out…follow the families.
DING!!! I never ever ever ever EVER want another winter in the Boston area like the one of 2014/2015. On Groundhog Day and day after in 2015, this was the end of my driveway…barely enough room for me to get out of my driveway. That mound of snow on the right is supposed to be 2 guest parking spaces. They had to bucketload it out of there, as we were expecting another blizzard that night.
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Oh my!
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The adults are the skiers and the kids are the snowboarders. 
My son hates snow, my daughter was the snowboarder daredevil.
She’s going for her masters up by you.
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We have some fine schools with lots of winter sports opportunities.
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Yeah, we’ve had a few (fortunately very few compared to Boston) like that. The worst I can recall was when I lived in Philly and we got over 30 inches. Of course, our little one-way street was never plowed; but they actually plowed in the end of the street. We had a nice neighborly day of digging out an exit to the main street.
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Jewish lives, Antisemitism, Israeli Civilians, Palestinian Civilians, Holiday season, technology
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This certainly hits home around here 
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Relevant quote:
We are now recognizing that authenticity is a performance itself.
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A lot of online activity is performative.
Just online? I’d say everywhere.
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Hmm. Most people I interact with IRL tend to be genuine (of course, there are always exceptions), but perhaps I’m just lucky 
I don’t do well with fake anything, online or elsewhere, which is why I’d make a terrible sales person.
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But everybody code switches, at least some of the time. You’re not the same person in a job interview as you are at Thanksgiving dinner.
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Well, yeah. Eat at home like you’re at the palace, so you can eat at the palace as if you’re home. Or something like that.
Social conventions dictate that I clean up my language in a professional vs. a private environment, but that doesn’t mean I pretend to be a completely different person.
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Do you think people pretend to be completely different people online? Some do, I’m sure, but I think most of us are just versions of ourselves.
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Online discussions and handles can bring our parts of personality that might not show up at the office or with friends.
I remember going to a CH potluck about 15 years ago, and the online personas didn’t always seem to match the person. Sometimes they did. One of the mods seemed to think Phoenikia was a bit of a bitch. 
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I think it’s much easier to pretend to be a different person online - that is, if one cares about how one comes off to total strangers one is unlikely to ever meet in person.
In fact, interacting online seems to give a lot of people license to act out their absolute worst side - in a way that I don’t think most would talk to each other if they were face to face… at least I would hope so.
And while I’ve witnessed beautiful moments of kindness, there also seem to be a LOT of Very Angry Folks who use their time online to work out whatever demons they struggle with. I can’t know nor would I ever assume that they sustain similar levels of outrage offline, as that seems both psychologically and physically unhealthy in the long term.
I admin a few groups here and there & keep a pretty tight ship, so personal attacks or anything that veers into the political realm get shut down pronto, but it’s disheartening to see the level of pugnacity with which (possibly) decent, rational people engage.
Certainly, the level of passive-aggressiveness the online world facilitates is unsurpassed.
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