[QUOTE=Uncwilly;526344]Single word for that is a synonym for a person's first time making sweet love.[/QUOTE]
There [I]is[/I] a specific word, which is not usually applied in horticultural contexts. :razz:

Fiber follies etc
 

[QUOTE=kriesel;525296]Ten days was nonsense. It finally got run under the grass yesterday. So I don't exactly have fiber yet, but my electric meter outside is wearing it like a scarf.[/QUOTE]The Oct 4 fiber install date I obtained from the local sales office weeks ago was apparently also nonsense, since that's tomorrow and I have not yet been contacted to schedule/provide interior access, and the home end of the fiber remains draped over the electric meter outside today. Meanwhile, after a service call and a functional 2 days, followed by weeks of unpredictable frequent and lengthy outages or impairments, my slow DSL is temporarily performing at or above its slow spec despite a lot of recent rain and rough weather. Maybe the mice finally moved out of the phone/DSL junction box nearby, intimidated by the frequent very close fiber install activity. Fiber installation crews are still installing orange plastic conduit underground elsewhere in the neighborhood, so it is likely to be more weeks yet before they start hooking up individual homes to the fiber that's already installed to the exterior. The provider website says vaguely, "services are estimated to launch in Fall 2019" for the neighborhood status.

[QUOTE=xilman;525352]Not entirely sure why I'm posting this. Perhaps I'm too under the affluence of incahol and perhaps feeling unduly Magdalen[SUP]*[/SUP]. [/QUOTE]
You're in good company. Or you're not. Can't know until you check.

Fiber follies: FINALLY!
 

[QUOTE=kriesel;527245]The provider website says vaguely, "services are estimated to launch in Fall 2019" for the neighborhood status.[/QUOTE]The web site now says "is now available". As of yesterday, fiber is connected the last yard, from the exterior to the interior, ONT installed, router connected, and routinely testing 80-280 Mbps via wireless (vs. 300 nominal each way). So I now temporarily have 4 ways of connecting:
Fiber; cellphone tether ~4Mbps/2Mbps; DSL (~1Mbps/128Kbps when it's working); dialup ~30Kbps. (Remember when 30k to 50k baud used to seem fast?)
So now the uplink is comparable to or faster than the LAN interfaces of some of my older gear.

It's transformative. I can now get an Ubuntu or Debian ISO downloaded faster than I could drive to the library. When the DSL was working reliably it would take ~14 hours to download one full DVD; when the DSL became unreliable, even a 1.5GB NVIDIA download became impossible to complete in several days of trying. So the public library in the nearest village had become my download source.:banana:
It was a long and painful multiyear wait, but I think I'm going to like this a lot, speed, presumably reliability, and some cost reduction relative to DSL plus the required landline with its menu of taxes, fees, and surchargers. At least until the initial 2 year pricing on the fiber ends. Satellite service and perhaps cell data service will cap potential price increases, one way or another. :deadhorse:

Winter is upon us! lol

Time to bring the heaters
... clears throat ...
or, computers out.

I wonder how cold does Saskatchewan and Manitoba gets in the winter, anyone from there? Might be moving there next year. :smile:

[QUOTE=dcheuk;528686]I wonder how cold does Saskatchewan and Manitoba gets in the winter, anyone from there? Might be moving there next year. :smile:[/QUOTE]
petrw1 is from SK :rajula:
On a somewhat related note: I gave a ride to someone from North Battleford, SK last Friday (Pick up at the airport and dropped them off 180 km away, then go home. A friend of a friend thing. Oh how I love Friday afternoon traffic driving all the way across town.:truck:)

[QUOTE=dcheuk;528686]I wonder how cold does Saskatchewan and Manitoba gets in the winter, anyone from there? Might be moving there next year. :smile:[/QUOTE]

Depends - southern part of those provinces you 'only' get as cold as (using US references) folks in Fargo and Green Bay ... northern part, you're igloo-raising with the folks in Nunavut and NW Territories and swimming with the polar bears in Hudson Bay.

[QUOTE=dcheuk;528686]Winter is upon us! lol

Time to bring the heaters
... clears throat ...
or, computers out.

I wonder how cold does Saskatchewan and Manitoba gets in the winter, anyone from there? Might be moving there next year. :smile:[/QUOTE]

If you need degrees Fahrenheit (Celsius)
Average high in the winter 9; low -9 (-13 / -23)
About 3 weeks sometime between November and February: high -14; low -40. (-25 / -40)
Wind chills may reach-100 (-75) in extreme cases.

[QUOTE=petrw1;528727]Wind chills may reach-100 (-75) in extreme cases.[/QUOTE]

Canadians are weird people. Sorry about that... :smile:

[QUOTE=chalsall;528728]Canadians are weird people. Sorry about that... :smile:[/QUOTE]

:weirdo::jcrombie:

Wow, thanks for the replies folks.

-100F? OMG You know when its really cold when Fahrenheit < Celsius.

:rajula::rajula::rajula:

I guess that makes me weird wanting to move to somewhere much colder and becoming a Canadian. :smile:

Two of the schools I applied are in Winnipeg, MB and in Regina, SK. One of my reference writers laughed when he saw my `list of Canadian schools' were followed by Hawaii.

I heard it is very windy up there in MB and SK just like here in Iowa or North Dakota. Friend of mine from Edmonton said the bigger cities are warmer due to `pollution.'