Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<F5CdnX1W3vbJTuPVnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

Ah, but think about the snow birds here in February - "Ah, Margaret,
it is so nice here - let's buy a house and move here". They're
ready to sell by May at the latest.

Uh-huh. In many ways, I'd rather live in, say, Minnesota - you can
always put more clothes on to stay warm, but you damn well can't
take enough clothes off to stay cool. Still, had Motorola worked out
for me, I probably would've relocated to Phx.

I haven't been up North after about October or before May in many years.
I'd have to buy a whole new wardrobe. Nah, I'll be hitting the pool in
a few minutes.

I don't recall my time there being particularly rainy - only one
6 inch rain (6 inches between drops) that I remember.

2000 no rain between 3/29 and 6/20
2001 1.50" in April (cloudburst on 4/06, small one on 4/22)
2002 0.31" in April - nothing between 4/07 and 7/10
2003 0.23" on 4/15 - nothing else between 3/18 and 7/30
2004 2.38" in April (cloudburst) - nothing until 7/14
2005 0.37" on 4/24 - nothing else between 3/25 and 7/24
2006 0.04" on 4/04 - nothing else between 3/20 and 7/22
2007 0.42 in April (cloudburst) - nothing until 7/24
2008 0.42 on 5/24 - nothing else between 2/23 and 7/11

But don't forget, nearly all of our rainfall is thunderstorms, and they
tend to be hit-or-miss.

As I said below, it seems to me that the whole Phx basin has suffered
a change for the worse in terms of micro-climate - irrigation,
swimming pools, lawns, golf courses all contributing.

I haven't had that much time here before 1996, but I think you're right.

Well, as a nicotine addict myself, I'd probably find myself a bit
torqued, too. While I try to be considerate of non-smoking others,
I do tend to expect a similar consideration in return.

The 50 foot law went into effect early last year. The company did
add a covered area with misters and ran into minor barbed wire from
an activist. Luckily, the loon wasn't an employee, so we offered to
prosecute for trespass. We still got some bad press over the deal,
but things are calming down now.

Were you here after they created "Tempe Town Lake"

ISTR them finishing that particular project shortly before I got
there. There was a continuing whoop-te-do about it in the local
rag and the TV stations. Can't say I gave it much thought at
the time.

You can't do water-sports other than light boating, but it's
supposedly noticeable as small vertical course deviation (air density
change) for aircraft using the South-side runways at Sky Harbor. I'm
told it also makes it slightly cooler in the area, but have no idea
how true that may be. But it _looks_ nice.

Swamp-cooled Ol' Bob

7 Tons of central air - but we also have swamp coolers so that I don't
electrocute the cats, or cause the computers to reboot by merely
touching the case.

Old guy
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