Mmm, storms. Over here in Nevada, we've got a snow storm to adore. It's beautiful. With the full moon and whatnot, it looks like you're walking around in a Winter Wonderland. It's perfect. Great weather for the Holidays! Enjoy your storm!

Do they have DOUBLE DOPPLER radar down there? That seems to be all our news ppl can talk about up in Seattle.

#3, im getting closer!

Storms rule. It was windy as eff up here in sacramento.

Lisa Marie

I know that feeling of missing a character after finishing a book. This always happens to me when I read any John Irving book.

One storm?!?!? ONE? Up here in I guess northern california (San Jose) Its been raining off and on for like a week and a half. All y'all down in LA start freaking out over 3 inches of rain and its probably dumped a foot and a half here already :P

AH! Storm watch! *hide*

:o)

i feel you on the "sadness" when one finishes a book. i just started douglas adams' LONG DARK TEA TIME OF THE SOUL. i am waiting to become fully emersed into the world of Dirk Gently.
and what's the matter with the Golden Globes only nominating "Alias" for one friggin' Golden Globe?!? must be all that viagra the old folks on the Golden Globe committee are sniffin'.

thanks for the update...

eric

STORM WATCH! kicks soo much ass! :-)

OMG...EYE MASK AND EAR PLUGS!?!
I thought those were just TV exaggerations!
People actually DO that?
And you told the world about it?

Wil...keep it up and Anne's going to start www.annewheaton.net and tell everyone about your snoring habit and your Star Wars(TM) under-roos:)

My underoos are Batman, buddy.

Storm Watch my ass. I live in near the Puget sound and we get more rain and storms that last months at a times. Hey we get soo much rain that our scuicide rates go up durring our rainy months.

Why in god's name would someone have Batman under....oo....s.... *looks at underoos, sees Spongebob staring back*

Erm. Right.

Underoos.... Funny name. Didn't know anyone still used it. Batman rawks! STORM WATCH, very amusing. We've been having the ODDEST winter so far. Just came off of two days of rain...in freaking wisconsin! Looks like it's gonna turn out like last winter. We had spring during winter and winter during spring. Just so ya know, I was of the 50% that liked Nemesis. Hoping like he!! that the deleted scenes are in the DVD. You did a good impression of a potted plant. Darn B and B! *breathes deep* Hope the rain doesn't do too much damage.

I saw this book today while at Barnes & Noble. I almost picked it up to look at it, but decided I had enough to worry about. However, since it's now been recommended, I might just have to make another visit tomorrow (OK, today, since it's about 2:00 AM) to take another look at it.

I almost bought "The Best American Non-Required Reading of 2002" this past weekend when I was Christmas shopping. I ended up not buying it because I was supposed to be getting gifts for other people, not myself, but once the holidays are over I'll have to go pick up a copy. Because what more could I ask for in a book than you endorsment?

Storm Watch! Cool! I wish we were having a storm right now. It's unseasonably warm here in the Lower Mainland in British Columbia; it's like an extended fall. (The best of the 4 seasons.)
I just watched High Fidelity and I wish it were pissing down outside so I could go jump in a flowerbed and get all muddy and crap.
:o)

Wil!!

Speak to us!!

Have you been washed away by a huge mudslide yet??

Are you staying up all night bravely protecting your family from the Forces of Nature(tm)?

And shouldn't you all sleep in rubber dinghys just in case the waters rise unexpectedly while you are asleep?

(PS Insert 'Chopper2 sic balls' joke if that kind of thing amuses you.)

Three inches of rain? Hahahahahahaaaaaaaa..... oh my.... In Oregon, we are lucky to get only three inches of rain during the wet season (which lasts approximately 3 and a half weeks out of every month). We've had more than 3 inches in the past week alone! Hehehe..... STORM WATCH! OH MY GODS!!!!! =D

Sometimes when I read a really good book, and I'm getting to the end, I try and drag it out as long as possible. I get all odd afterwards, too, sort of sulky and all don't-talk-to-me. The best cure for that it to have another good book ready to go.

I really miss the big, loud, dangerous American storms we got in VA when I was there. Here in Australia, all we have to worry about is bushfires every summer. We've already had round one this year, now we're just waiting to see if there's going to be a round two. Storms are still much cooler.

http://www.startledfrog.com/beretwearingelitist/

Wil,

Enjoy your STORM WATCH!!! You know you only get to, since HURRICANE SEASON is over.... which is what I get to experience in South Texas (or Norte Mexico depending on your interpretation!).

Ever since we had a mother of hurricane in 1970 (Called Celia) the media has been waiting for my widdle town of Corpus Christi (yes home of Selena, Lou Diamond Phillips, Farrah, etc.) to be WIPED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH BY ANOTHER TREMENDOUS HURRICANE.

So EVERY potential tropical storm or hurricane summons a fleet of vehicles to tell the world of our impending demise.

Back in (I think) 1990 we had a bugger called Allen wander in... I stayed in CC and my place of employment (a residential hospital) evac-ed our folks to San Antonio.

What made this stupid was that the media was telling how BAD it was when we had nothing but light rain -- a friend and I wanted to ruin CNN's broadcast by dancing by -- whilst San Antonio was getting tornados...

So... we need to chill and let Mother Nature be.

Peace,

***THE BEEJ***

AIRPLANE!

wil: since you are on STORM WATCH in california...that means that we in southern illinois are now officially on PRE-STORM WATCH!...your weather in winter eventually gets here and that could lead to panic in the streets...and an extremely WHITE CHRISTMAS!...thanks for the heads up...i'll save a snowball for you.

Heh heh heh... reminds me of the snow coverage around here, especially my favorite of all time THE BLIZZARD OF '96! Each station had a logo and a little dramatic piece of music to go along with their coverage of THE BLIZZARD OF '96!

"Whenever I finish a book, I feel a sense of achievement, and I begin to look forward to the next one in my ever-growing stack. However, I also feel a certain sadness as I bid characters or an author farewell"

I know that feeling well. If the book is good, it is as though I am carried along on the tide of emotion, experiencing whatever the characters experience.. as a budding writer I can understand how reading the work so good as that you mentioned can make you feel you are a long way from achieving the respected name "writer" yourself ;-). Keep plugging Will..

ONO!~~ TEH SOTRM WATHC!!!!11

Now that has got to be the funniest entry in a while. STORM WATCH!

Same thing happens here in FL when there is even the most remote chance a hurricane blows in to Gulf.What I find funny, is that they dispatch the entire weather staff for a friggin tropical storm!!

STORM WATCH!!

I share the same feeling about a good book- I just don't want it to end. I believe it was Eric that said he was reading Douglas Adams LDTTOTS- great book! Have you read "Last Chance to See"? It's non-fiction, but Adams is still hysterically funny. It's about extremely endangered species. I particularly enjoyed reading about Arab the kakapo tracker and Boss, Arab the kakapo tracker's kakapo tracking dog. Say that 10 times real fast! :) I also am very into Stephen King, and his books are so long anyway that when you finish it you feel like you're re-emerging into the real world after a long hibernation. Well, Wil, and everyone, enjoy your Christmas. Be safe and happy! :)
Love, Alicia
www.thewagband.com

"STORM WATCH"??? I just got back from watching 'Bowling For Columbine' (bloody Australian delayed release!) and really, does the media obsess much?

That was a rhetorical question, by the way. :)

Whee storms are fun... We had a hurricane come in a few months ago so my father and I went right down to the beach to see how rough the tide was... hehe...
Heavy rainfall warning here in Southren New Brunswick today as well, had a bit of freezing rain this morning.. hate that stuff... then we're supposed to get 25mm of the wet stuff. Fine by me, the temps supposed to stay around 7C, which is nice and warm and makes it more comfortable for the chickadees...

hmmm whatever you guys get (in weather) usually ends up at some point here, I wonder what'll be by the time it reaches here.

*ponders*

With all due respect to you and your storms, you haven't lived (or feared for your life) until you experience a true North Atlantic storm in my little known home country The Faroe Islands (if I knew how to make an in-text link to some site about it, I would) - look it up, it's in the middle of the North Atlantic somewhere between Norway, Scotland and Iceland.

I would still rather be in California in a "storm watch" than in Chicago. It's cold here and going to snow and I want to get out and Cache!!! Damn the cold. Damn the snow. Your lucky, rain goes away within a few days, our snow will soon be here to stay! Thats it! I'll quit my job, hitchhike accross America with only my GPS and move out to California where all you guys have to worry bout is a little rain! I'm brilliant! ;)

-Erin

STORM WATCH! is because you SoCal drivers need as much advance warning that it will sprinkle as possible......

Like up north, in WA, they have SUN WATCH! because they are so used to driving in the rain, they keep an eye out for the sun.

I feel the same way when I finish a book.

*laughs*

I believe you have righteously captured the STORM WATCH!! experience. Well done, sir.

The scariest part, this morning it's no longer "Storm Watch" they're giving just as much attention to "Weather Watch" on channel 2.

Beware the So. California drivers on a weather watch day, Wil!

Dirk Gently was GREAT. I miss Douglas Adams. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

(Sorry, Wil, I know your website says "freedom from religion", but come on! Douglas Adams!)

Sure will miss his cosmic farces.

Hopefully Sam Rubin is the first one to get run down in the rain. And that chick with the mole on her face next.

STORM WATCH! told us we were going to get a foot and a half to three feet of snow. Four inches of slushy snow later, I know it's just another day of guessing for the crew at STORM WATCH!

Hey, wanna play in some snow? I brought a truckload down to my office in Riverside. :-)

All of you are A bunch of big WEENIES. There is only one exception "Wil". The Wil Wheaton fans in the Pacific N.W. deal with same kind of weather year round (you don't hear us wine about it). Now that the tables are turned, all of you, and even the local news crews are just freaken out over a little rain and gusty winds. GET OVER IT! Just because you don't see you CA sunshine for a week, you start to wine.

GET OVER IT! AND DEAL WITH IT!

Put your shorts and t-shirts away, and put on those long pants, and coats on. And try to enjoy the weather we usually deal with everyday. Oh bye the way the weather is unusally nice for this time of the year. Thank You California!

Underoo's = best thing ever.
I've yet to find any for adults.
Man, if they don't have them yet they're missing out on a huge cash in.
We 20 somethings that had them when we were kids would happily drop $15 on a set. I know i would.
They have to be retro though. Lotsa old Star Wars and stuff like that.

They already brought back our old toys. I say it's time for a "roo" revolution.

Oh, yeah I want my damn Spidey roo's back Wil, you thievin' bastard. :)

This must explain why I had a dream featuring you and Mark-Paul Gosselaar, two of my favorite Non-Threatening Teen Boy (tm) crushes of the early 90's....I must have known you were under the imminent danger cloud known as STORM WATCH! (No, there was no freaky three-way sex involving monkeys, much to my dismay.)

I need a new good book to read. Maybe I'll pick this one up!

God I miss Southern California.

Anne Rules :). I have a mask too that I wear to sleep. My husband has not stopped laughing when I put it on, after over 3 years. I hope you give Anne a break about it :).

So when the news breaks, who fixes it? 8-)

Those of us who live in Central Texas are very familiar with weather hype.

I'm reminded of the late Bill Hicks' routine about (among other things) weather in L.A, called, "Goodbye You Lizard Scum." If you've never heard it, I urge each and every one of you to rush out and buy (or ask Santa for) Bill's "Arizona Bay" CD.

STORM WATCH!

This is great. Up here in New England, the news has gotten to such a state of sensationalism that
even the slightest threat of snow (like 1 or 2 inches) make the newscasters froth at the mouth.
And they put the reporters everywhere.

One of the local stations used to have this one reporter (who would come out of retirement for
storm coverage) that they put into a dinghy (small boat) into either Boston Harbor or Buzzard's Bay
(down near Rhode Island) in the middle of the storm. And I'm not talking the little dinky
storms. I'm talking about the hurricanes and the huge nor'easters. Haven't seen her in years, but
we still joke about her coming out for the little storms that don't amount to much.

Go STORM WATCH!!!!

Now, I have to ask. How many people have been rescued from the storm drainage system and has
it been captured by the news choppers yet?

-WxDude

While you guys in L.A. are on STORM WATCH!, here in Denver, we're just wondering if we're going to see a white Christmas in the metro area or not. (Latest projections are leaning towards "not.")

See, those big storms that cause Angelenos to go on STORM WATCH! eventually do move east, but they tend to expend all their force over the Continental Divide, and we in the Mile High City never see 'em. They do keep the ski areas happy, though (6 inches of new snow at Vail in the past 48 hours, 18 inches at Steamboat Springs, 7 inches at Aspen, etc., etc., and so on).

Right now, it's just cold here. I blame Canada.

Erbo-don't blame Canada this time! I'm in your time zone (in Edmonton) and the weather here has been above or at freezing for the last two weeks, and it's about 10C higher than normal.

Will-hope your new sod is firmly and properly anchored.

My favorite is the T7000! Doppler Radar 7000! They advertise it like it's the Terminator of weather watching. I never knew rain could be so exciting until I turned on the news last night.

*chuckle* There are certain things that only another southern Californian can laugh at. Hee-hee-hee ...

STORM WATCH!

Wil, I lurv ya, babe.

Just as long as Giles doesn't show up at your front door warning of an impending Apocalypse you should survive.

Channel 4 finally stopped calling it "Storm Watch" after the other channels picked it to death. It was a running gag on the vastly superior KTLA morning news. But its still overblown no matter what station :)

Nemesis was a good film. I think its sad that a
J-LO film had better numbers. How far trek has fallen. Me, I dont think this is the last film.
But I do think were going to see a very long expanse (10-20 years) before the next.

Folks, here in Southern California wet weather really freaks news people out - you should hear the increase in highway accident reports when a drop of rain hits the pavement. In the San Diego area we have "STORM WATCH", and then when they are forecasting to get more than .25 of an inch of rain, we move up to "STORM WATCH 2002!"

On the lower left coast we have to drive to the snow, and rain is treated as if royalty is coming for a visit, news-wise. If the Queen of England were to visit LA during a rainstorm, the rainstorm would get more TV and newspaper coverage.

Reading by the fire is the best thing EVER!

Just caught a glimpse of you last night on the VH1 "I love the 80's: 1986". I had forgotten about the leech scene in "Stand by Me".

i just moved 20 minutes away from my old house to the san dimas area....... oh yeah... foothill mudslides, baby!! I LOVE STORM WATCH! but this morning seems to be all sunny and lovely.

Here is is, December 20th and we're finally getting the first real* snow of the year in Minnesota. Last Saturday, the temperature was nearly 50 degrees. Mind you, I'm not complaining.

I'm surprised we didn't get "Heat Stroke Alert!" or some other such nonsense.

It's like when a half inch of snow falls in Georgia. The whole state is paralyzed. Meanwhile, Buffalo gets 3 feet and barely blinks.

We here in Oregon do the same about rain. Give SoCal a break. :)

Did anyone else ever see those MadTV bits from years ago... "Wind Storm '98!"? Are those parodying the same newscaster/station?

ha! Storm Watch.. i remember those. I live on oregon's southern coast, and we have SUN WATCHES. witness all the pale people crying, "i'm meeeeeeelting!" in mid July when the sun finally comes out. They have to warn us, or we burn to crisps.

We got 10 inches of rain in 48 hours last weekend, on top of high tides and 50+mph winds. goood stuff, man.

Wil! What are you using on your hair? I'm plugging Fudge haircolor, cos nothing else compares. (mine is cherry bomb. I'm 32)

Yeah, a whole season of El Nino to look forward to. I moved to Hollywood in January 1998, last time the floods hit LA. The rains this week made me realize there's a crack in the foundation under one of the bedroom walls in our apartment. The carpet is getting wet when it rains, and it's not from the pets...

Joy.

Hah! That was great Wil.

MrP

Oh, good. It's not just me. The whole STORM WATCH thing is just a riot. But,Wil, how can you not enjoy ABC 7's LIVE Doppler Radar with Johnny Mountain and Dallas Raines. The live play by play announcing as the storm tracks its way across the basin.

Great stuff.

LOL... well up here in Santa Babylon we were watching "The First Duty" when the screen went blank, there was a beeep, then the picture came back on with the scrolling "FLASH FLOOD WARNING" advisory at the bottom. No sound. The kids were all, "Wait! WAIT! WHAT DID WESLEY SAY TO THE CAPTAIN???" LOL. Not, "OMG Daddy we're gonna DROWN" but "I'M MISSING STAR TREK!!"

And the creek stayed in anyway.

So... umm... what *did* you say to the Captain?

Ha! Thanks for the laughs, Wil. My Ma lives on the Central Coast and whines about the rain, when they get it, and I just have to laugh at her. I've been visiting when it's been 'raining' and I can honestly say, I don't even wear a coat.
In Ketchikan, we get 160-200 inches of rain each and every year. "Liquid Sunshine". It is not unheard of to get 6-8 inches in one day, and add 70 mile an hour gusts with 40 mph sustained winds and you have a typical winter day. Good thing you visited in the summer. You made me think of my Ma with your report on the STORM WATCH craziness. Thanks. :)
Going on a date with my hubby tonight to see LOTR:TT. Can't friggin wait. ST:Nemesis still hasn't come to our dinky little theater. Wonder if it will... won't be too upset if I have to wait for DVD, then I can check out the deleted scenes. 8-}

Storm watch? Dang! I miss all the fun!

Well...3 inches of rain...here in Kentucky that doesn't really denote a "storm". I mean it started raining here Wednesday night and didn't stop until about 2 or 3 AM this morning...and it got quite heavy at times...I'd say much more than three inches. Heh! The roads here looked like streams! I went out yesterday in my Ford Windstar, and it was a blast hitting all the puddles on the roads and drowning all the other cars going by >=} You should get a minivan and try that sometime Wil! It's really fun! hehehe

Hey Wil, I **much** prefer Channel 7's Live Doppler 7000. As for Paul Moyer, yeah...that guy is a complete boob and his newcast is little more than a talking tabloid.

The Silicon Valley has been hit unusually hard by the recent storms. Trees have been rended, knocked over, and even completely uprooted. Their limbs and even entire trees have been scattered about. Earlier this week there was hail the size of small peas. Last night thunder was shaking my house and lightning was making me wonder how good my surge strip really is. A few days or so ago, there was so much lightning that just being outside was uncomfortable for both my girlfriend and myself. We have been having some unusual weather indeed.

Am I the only one who reads this thread and is reminded of "The Four Yorkshiremen" sketch? You guys don't know how good you have it. Here in blahblahblah it rains every single day. Why just yesterday it rained 12 feet and the river swept the entire city away and every man, woman, and child drown, including me. But you don't hear us complaining like those pansies down south. And if you tell someone from California that, they won't believe you.

I'm about an hour south of you, Wil, and all I've got is sunny skies. The last storm blew my poor plants off my balcony.

Stupid lokal nuwz.

My wife and I stay up just for giggles, to watch as the News Kens and News Barbies pretend to be journalists, and breathlessly announce the Lottery Numbers like its the freakin Sinking of the Hindenburg.

Arrtghrghgh. Need those Tolerance Pills.

Sorry, Wil, but as a former Angeleno my favorite part of **STORM WATCH** is the number of reporters each station needs to have in the field to report on what everyone knows is happening. We call it... TEAM COVERAGE!!!!!

Moyers: "Now we move to Biff Stubblefield in Malibu for his take on the action"

Biff: "We have waves like you wouldn't believe! Swells as high as SIX FEET!!! Over to Klee Anderson at the Airport for what's happening there."

Klee: "Are we on? Are we on? I couldn't hear Biff over... good evening everyone. As you can see the rain is falling here also." (hand to ear) "Wait, I'm told we have breaking news coming from the Valley so we switch to Harvey Firestein somewhere north of Tarzana. Harvey?"

Harvey: "Thank you Klee. I'm ACTUALLY STANDING IN RESEDA where the rain is falling as hard as in other communities. We have this reaction from people in the community...:

Passerby one: "It's like the sky opened up and a hose of water turned on!"

Passerby two: "Dude, like, I don't even OWN an umbrella."

Stock footage of a K-Mart: v.o. Harvey: "People from all over the Greater Reseda area have been flocking to their local Kmart. Not only to enjoy the Christmas Blue Light Specials, but to get out of the rain."

Store Manager: "We have sold more umbrellas today than usual, that's for sure..."

Harvey (live): "That's it from Reseda. Now reporting from the Eastern part of Los Angeles... wait a minute... we don't send reporters to East L.A.... back to Paul in the Studio."

Moyers: "Thank you Harvey, and everyone out in the field. Let's turn to our local commedian turned weatherman for an update on the rain."

Weatherman: "It's wet..."

Moyers (interrupting): "Excuse me Fritz, but we have a breaking story. We go to Vicky Rivers in Hollywood."

Vicky: "As we all know The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers opened this past weekend to amazing box office. How will the rain effect the holiday movie-going plans of the people who want to see it? In a word, bring an umbrella..."

When it rains in L.A. (or San Francisco for that matter), beware of TEAM COVERAGE. It will get you when you least expect it.....

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

Wil, I'm watching TNG on TNN right now...It just happens to be the episode "Final Mission". I'm sure you remember that episode. I thought it was sort of ironic that your latest blog is talking about rain and in this episode, you were filming in what appeared to be a rather uncomfortable area of the desert. Compared to working under those conditions, a storm watch seems to be much more preferable :)

One thing I am curious about in that episode. How much sand did you end up getting in your shoes while filming in the desert? I hate getting sand in my shoes! LOL

Hey Wil, check out the storm pics from the Northern edge of that storm with more pics on the way because there's more storm to come. I tried to use HTML in here but it cleaned the tag, the link to my home page will get you there but its harder work that way. Give it a day or two and I'll have freshies up again!

But yeah, its exciting stuff with the wind about to tear roofs off, trees getting knocked down, thongs being flung on stage (no wait, that's a different post) and our poor, poor beach volleyball court is in ruins now, think six inches of storm debris over the entire court!

Batten down the hatches, its gonna be a long night!

lucky..STORM WATCHES here consist of the sirens going off and houses being blown away by tornados.You know it's going to be bad when you hear the weather man shout "holy shit" and the tv blinks off.

Haaa haaaa... this is the first time I've ever posted to your blog, but that cracked me up! Storm Watch!!!! I love so-cali news. What's even funnier is that it hasn't even rained for two consecutive days yet. STORM WATCH!!! Ohmigod, it's snowing in Big Bear, what will people do? God forbid they have to break out a snowplow.

When a big storm happens here in the Chicago area, the local media usually just report on the aftermath. They don't even show the beeping lightning strike map anymore. But when a hurricane makes landfall 1000 miles away, they send their top weather guys to do live reports in the wind and rain.

Hi Wil. Saw you on Tech TV the other day and was really impressed. I hope you host again real soon. I'll actually be an audience guest on Screensavers 1-24. :) That's what brought me here btw, and I again am really impressed. I am in the process of redoing my site and have added your link to my links sect.

I don't watch much TV, so I don't know if we have STORM WATCH up here in Sac, but it's fucking terrible up here right now. I have to drive 30 miles in this shit to pick up my 3 year old daughter from daycare in a few. Yuck! cya

Wow.

I'm so glad i'm not the only one who gets sad at the end of a book. Especially a series of books.

I wont leave the house for a week at the end of LOTRs as i miss the characters too much.

I have thought about getting a life but it feels like i'm trying to lead three already...

I suppose your media react the same way to weather as our media react to earthquakes.

I remember a few years ago when I was in grad school in Edinboro, PA (just SW of Erie...) and we had a minor rumble. It made my walls undulate, which was kind of weird, but I'd thought the neighbors on the other side of the wall had knocked over a bookcase.

The media, however, was in a total and complete tizzy.

(Channel 12) "Stick with us in our continuing LIVE EARTHQUAKE COVERAGE!!!"

(Channel 23) "Experts are estimating the quake registered at 2.4 on the Richter Scale!"

(Guy in overalls and a John Deere cap) "Well, I seen that there crack on the sidewalk afterwards, but it could have been there before... I can't remember..."

Wil,
Don't you love when the news updates a storm every 15 seconds. "And its still storming." They
report as if no one has a window at home. Sometimes they will even interrupt a TV show, after you just hear a huge bolt around the corner, to tell you that you are going through a storm. Stay dry and warm. Oh Wil, watch out for that storm.

FG

Damn that Storm watch... I mean all that rain! *Laughs* I agree with you about when you finish a book, you always feel sad. I do that too. It's so depressing! Do they really make it that dramatic?
-Lianne

When you said, "...I learned how far I have to go before I can call myself a writer." I knew exactly how you felt. Every time I read something by Ray Bradbury I have that same feeling--and it takes me forever to start writing again.

Wooohoo! Nothing like the news media to get the blood pumping! Gotta love the media! :)

I feel for you.

Just finished the four volume set of Otherworld by Tad Williams. I know so much about the characters after more than 3600 pages that I feel I know them personally!

On a plus note, I started a new book - This Alien Shore - and have become involved with new characters!

yeah very weird weather. i just wish it would blizzard! or rain then freeze, that's always good when you have to stay inside.

Ahhh... It's finally started snowing in the western LP of Michigan -- one of the few reasons to come home in winter! We had a snow advisory today; happy local weather dude says we'll get 3-7 inches. My fanny, we got about 1/2". As Calvin said, "Nobody ever closes school on account of prettiness!"

And the whole book thing is so true. I've been home a week and I've read about half a dozen novels already. It's addictive, and sad when you can't see your friends the characters anymore. One of the best for that I've ever read is GOLDEN WITCHBREED... I was actually pissed off when I finished it, because they were gone...

Hey Wil, in case you missed it on Fark:

http://www.rightwingnews.com/special/annoyinglib.php?

;)

Hey, send that storm out here to Arizona! We need rain so bad. There was a SMALL storm today, but that lasted less than an hour. I love the rain, I wish it rained more.

too damn funny....
hahaha...laughed my ass off wil...thanks

and now..
back to STORM WATCH!

STORM WATCH & DOPPLER RADAR

Don'cha just love the desperate geekiness of the news media? I always feel pity for the poor weatherman who gets to stand out in a storm to report it as though we wouldn't believe it was rainy or windy unless we saw him/her getting soaked.

We managed to pull off some snow in Chicago in the last days of November. Not that such is unheard of but it's terribly rare. Thanks to El Nino we got an even bigger rarity... thunder and lightning storms in December! What snow we did get in November is long gone and it's doubtful that there'll be a white Christmas.

DOUBTFUL such things were once a myth for the upper midwest but the past few years Chicago has gone with very little and no Christmas snow at all. Neighboring states that had typically been snow-lite now get hammered.

Big snow in the Chicago area if it comes won't show up until February and that's an IF mind you. I prefer the rain myself our most recent storms were reminiscent of spring...my how are little planet has changed.

I just had to share this one Wil...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/spankmonkey.html

To inspire you, I've clocked in a 372m.p.h. smack. Now go unleash your fury ...think Berman.

That's too funny, Wil-Paul Moyer is a hoot! I know they had to break Colleen Williams and Chuckles Henry because they were too good together (wink-wink), but I wouldn't miss Uncle Paul for the world! Storm Watch Rules!

Wil,

3 inches?!?! They had way over 7 inches in a couple of hours the other afternoon, down below Cape Canaveral. Come by this summer when we expect a repeat of the firestorms of '98!

Can we get some balance here? Oh, we are . . .

Pax,
Chuck

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Y'all can figure what to remove from my addy

OMG!! That Monkey thing is just too damned funny! LMAO!!!

Sticky Bear wonders what is going on. His bounce basket is full of surprise.

Storm Watch? Must be serious in California if they call for a storm watch. Three inches of rain is a big deal if you haven't had any in a while. Turns dirt to mud in a hurry. Oh, and Wil, keep up the good work.

:)

You said:

"....Whenever I finish a book, I feel a sense of achievement, and I begin to look forward to the next one in my ever-growing stack. However, I also feel a certain sadness as I bid characters or an author farewell...."

Just spent the last two months reading all four (in sequence) Harry Potter novels. (If you haven't, buy the hardcover packaged set -- as the paperbacks, particularly the fourth, get broken spines and pages fall out easily.) With help from the two films, I feel I know the characters personally, and it's hard to be patient waiting for the fifth installment.

And just like is said, her novels get people reading again.

[ramble] Gosh, I hope JK Rowling doesn't destroy (as she suggested once she might) all her notes on HP once she's finished the series. Imagine if Tolkien had done so? What you don't publish is often as important as the stuff you do...

...

... Out there in earthquake-land, perhaps you should periodically feed someone inland your material for safe-keeping, should THE BIG ONE level LA like Capt Janeway said will happen in that ChronoWorx episode? [/ramble]

Me? [gloat] Got an even bigger stack than you.[/gloat] Been collecting deep-discount-bin hardcovers and overstock paperbacks for years and never got around to them. Must be five or six dozen in small piles or stuffed on shelves all over the house. (Or maybe the latter is due to blogs, message boards, and email. :) )

Your writings are better than what I remember back when I posted semi-alot on your message boards. Take care and have fun and...

... make sure you're well compensated.

Peace!

Dude I sleep the same way too-- Ear plugs and bandana over my eyes--
*I'm a senstive sleeper to light and children screaming!!!* gypsy fakes a fainting spell*

Man I don't miss those California Storm Watches!! batten down the Hatches!!
and Stay Safe!!!

Wil...

"STORM WATCH"

sounds like a better movie that
last star trek "Nemesis" thing..

(just kidding)

gee I hope that great new grass (lawn, not the "pot" stuff) ((not that you planted any "pot" ))

someone planted doesn't wash away...

later

I always thought Paul Moyer was rather low-key, especially compared to Jerry Dunphy and the Jiggle News team over at KABC-TV. Of course, I haven't been in L. A. since I visited a friend in Arcadia (where I also once lived) back in summer '86, right about the time the story broke about Tracy Lords having made porn films before she reached the age of legal consent. The "Award-Winning Channel 7 Eyewitness News Team!" in their matching blue sportcoats couldn't get enough of it.

I did like Dr. George Fischbeck, though. Is he still on the air?

Stormwatch.... that is all that has been on the news. Only in California can we turn rain into an all day news event. Whenever I see/hear this on TV I am reminded of the Chris Farley "El Nino" sketch from SNL

Sound Clip of Chris:
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On a side note, the waves at the beach have been amazing to watch.

three to six inches of snow by christmas day...thanks wil for your WWDN/STORM WATCH!(tm) coverage...i knew before anyone else around here in southern illinois that we were going to have a white christmas...WWDN/STORM WATCH! (tm)...a better way to experience the storm....and the resulting chaos and panic.

As you may recall, the "Golden Monkey" was the prize to be won at the end of Pitfall II for the Atari 2600. Don't worry though, I am sure your "Golden Monkey Award" is allowable as "fair use" under United States Copyright laws. So if those nefarious corporate lawyers from Activision give you a hard time, drop me a line.

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