It's aprox 7:15 PM CST so there is less than five hours left of 2009. May or may not be awake at Midnight but Happy New Years for what it is worth. Maybe I should work on the Timeout chapter I got back from proofing and see if I can get it closer to posting. Been stuck abit with my muse but hope to push on. I promissed Mr Arnold, that's Bob not the Govenator, some interaction between a favorite character of his and some of mine and I really do need to produce. John in Wauwatosa P.S. Hope all is well for you, Bob, and thanks for providing this and several other fine sites.

The three snowiest Decembers on record in Milwaukee have all occurred in my lifetime, all in the last ten years ... 2000, 2007 and 2008.

Everyone of these was roughly an average Milwaukee winter's worth of snow.

Oh my aching back!

John in Wauwatosa

P.S. Something like 10 or more of the warmest years on record have occurred in the last 15 to 20 years. The official weather records here go back to aprox 1870 as Increase Lapham, a prominent Wisconsin scientist was a founder of the US Weather Bureau, now part of NOAA.

I had just gotten BC up and was logging on when it went down for some reason.

I get ...

>>Unable to connect to database server
System may be undergoing maintenance, try again in ten minutes.
>>
I hope it is a minor issue.

John in Wauwatosa