!!!!!hell yes it's march!!!!

this is going to be a good month. i turn 30 and i get my annual bonus on the day i turn 30, with a week off work.

longer evenings have just started becoming noticeable too.

that sounds like a plan!

this is happening in town on sunday

What you'll hear in the Fern Room is Orniphonia 2 by Chicago composer and artist Bob Snyder. Importantly, there are no actual bird sounds in this piece at all—everything is created through electronic means using analog synthesis. The compositional approach is similar to the groundbreaking Forbidden Planet (1956), the first movie with an electronic soundtrack. In that film, each character is accompanied by a unique sound created by an electronic circuit. In Orniphonia 2, the sound of each “creature” is also generated by a particular circuit. Each circuit generates patterns consisting of cycles within cycles that interact and change. The fact that a circuit producing regular interacting patterns of change can mimic a living organism reflects the fact that all living things exhibit rhythmic behavior, and that all biological life interacts with its environment in a regular way.

All this and my birthday's tomorrow so fuck yeah March.

the first bike ride through the park to the fern room is one of the things i am looking forward to the most. i am maxed out on drama and ready for some outdoors activities prontito.

the neighborhood makes me skittish but we should go together!

me too, but i brave the waters for the fern room (it's closer to me than gp too)
this weekend is super weird for a reason i will hopefully explain to you when i see you on sunday! this event has been on the calendar, which means i have to actually do it.

one thing i find difficult/challenging about spring is remembering how to do things again; slowing down in the fall is always a challenge too.

First journey home from work in actual daylight is always a good moment for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH4oPCUoILQ

sorry kids but march blows

first bike ride without gloves :o~

march is a challenge that usually pays off at least somewhat toward the end but mostly is a sign of better times ahead
i'll take it

march is when you plan for may
why because it's right around the corner

haha, I only put on Skylarking when the temperature hits 70 (first 70 degree day of the year, every year).

I'll listen to it at 50 degrees even though I fully admit that it sounds better at 70.

there is a love in your heart

Spring is Icumen In!

(Bullshitte is Igoin' Owt!)

march in 26 different languages if you please
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8518198911_14bbe7bf8f.jpg

Down here in Texas, we should alread be well into Summer by now, yet it was in the 40s this morning. I call bullshit.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/RaAhBBk4Tkuw8gxwPeg6tZHAo1_500.jpg

i would like to order a grilled cheese sangwatsu, thx

Hey, you found a photo of me! Shouldn't it be 110 degrees by now?

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March isn't my favorite month, but February is my most hated month, so by comparison, March is pretty fucking awesome. And a sign of better things to come.

March isn't my favorite month by a long shot, but it's much much closer than, say, December.

february suuuuuuuucked

my least fave are nov and feb

perenially

well guess what -- february is over. it ended YESTERDAY. today is 3/1/13.

January and September are my least favorite.

I have to like March because it's my birth month.

february? never heard of it!

february kicked my ass, so i'm relieved it's over. march is going to kick my ass too, but at least i have one ass-kicking behind me.

Got two drinks in after work and there was still daylight, bonus

September to November are fully delightful months. December to March not so much, but I can deal.

I don't get excited about March anymore, because March is the month of false hopes. March always lets you down. But yeah, at least it's not fucking February, by far my most hated month.

i have to get excited about march or i lose hope completely
it's going to be rough going here while we transition, but things will slowly get better
(as opposed to facing months and months of things slowly getting worse)

March is going to be a big improvement over Feb. 'cause I can get some seeds into the ground, continue trying to get in better shape, maybe travel a bit, smoke some ribs, etc

Now my wife won't have to listen to me saying "it's still February" every freaking day.

!!!!!hell yes it's march!!!!

winter is just the worst here. december through february the valley is basically mordor.

now the snow is half-melted and i see crocuses. garden clean-up time in a week or so.

my birthday is in april so I appreciate March as the leadup

also daylight savings starts in a couple of weeks, and I'm excited to resume my evening walks after work

it's pretty delightful all round. I say yes to MARZO

march in 26 different languages if you please

Is that a book you own, LL? It looks delightful!

it is!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xz%2B38mm8L._SL500_SS500_.jpg

you can get it used for 1¢ + shipping! (i got mine years ago at that huge book sale that used to be in the parking lot of the mall just north of here...the old brandeis book sale before they changed hands and started to kind of suck)

wow that's a cool book to have in your arsenal

I want that book.

it's super available, apparently. i've always been guarding it like some kind of precious jewel but it doesn't seem to be rare at all.

MARCH

i just spent two hours walking outside and tbrr shit was pretty grim, but that didn't stop it from being march

Yeah , it's shitty outside today. Still, we March on.

so glad Feb is over, i was sick like dog all month

bring on the Ides, I say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVN8y8XZCes

best thing about Spring here: wildflowers, miles and miles of wildflowers

spring in new york is rainy horseshit ime

tipsy otm i think though i've never been to east tennessee in the spring

It’s fucking HEAVENLY in TN in the spring — dreamy even when it’s “cold”

I woke up, read all your posts about beautiful spring weather, and was consumed with envy because it's been cold and rainy and gray here and I didn't expect it to change for another few weeks. Went out to walk the dog, and it turns out to be the most beautiful sunny spring day, just perfect.

I don't have to work today except for class prep, so I'm going to go for a long walk in the sun and listen to a Springsteen concert from 1977.

spring in new york is rainy horseshit ime

Dogshit, surely. The melt revealing the hundreds and hundreds of shits people thought the snow excused them from picking up. Now all semi liquified.

It's still freezing here. Ugh.

Supposed to be 60 in a few days! Part of the thrill of March is the variation in temps bc it makes the good days feel extra extra extra good

It's true – the current forecast says we'll be hitting 7°C on Tuesday and 11°C on Wednesday, which feels like a small miracle right now. Too bad we'll still be stuck at sub zero temperatures this weekend, as I'm supposed to go for a physically distanced walk with some friends.

windows are open and i can hear the BQE in the distance

And just like that boom
It’s MARCH!!!

It’s like 45 degrees and I’m loving it

My first day back in the office! (RIP)

paused at the intersection of an east-west road and soaked up thirty seconds of sun in the brisk morning air before plunging into the valley of tall campus buildings on my way to work. hello march!

that sounds lovely! i took off my hat outside and only wore one pair of stretchy knit gloves. totally sublime to feel the air on my skin again. i actually felt the warmth of the sun yesterday and saw some lil crocuses peeking through the ground on campus today.

Lol I somehow misread that as lil cockroaches

March is not playing: high of 82 today

Supposed to hit the mid-60s on Saturday, then a inch or two of snow on Monday. Taking advantage of fake Spring in the meantime though.

It went back to the 30s here :-/
Classic March

high of 70 today o_0

Outside for the first grill of 2022 ✅

Upper eighties today.

felt great doing shirtless runs today and yesterday, sun on skin is such a wonderful feeling after winter

74°F today; snow likely on wednesday morning

march

literally below 40 the rest of this week now. first rollercoaster plunge of spring. i hope we have like 5 instead of 7 before the lilacs bloom, when spring is officially moving into summer afaic.

Yeah it snowed today. I don’t care though because the trajectory is POSITIVE and UPWARD compared to the fluctuations of, say, November when things go from bad to worst for the following 4 months.

here comes the front; gonna drop 25° in eight hours

cat is not amused

we made it! we fucking made it!!!

know what's a great dreary day in march record? thelonious monk's "straight, no chaser"

¡¡¡¡LFG IT IS MARCH!!!!!!!

just walked thru quite an angry little flurry of rain and didn't care because it's March

It may suck today or even tomorrow and the next day but overall it’s getting better. That’s inevitable and I’m here for it!!

The excitement of March is dampened a little by the prospects of a snowstorm getting prepared to dump up to a foot of snow on us tomorrow. :/

Also the part of the forecast that pointed out additional systems on the way that may likely mean March alone exceeds our snow totals for all of the rest of winter.

Fret if you must — I will deal with snow when it happens but the trajectory is inevitable. It will gradually get better and no snow dumps can stop it.

Not fretting, I'll believe it when I see (and shovel) it, just admitting that it dampened my excitement somewhat.

I’m in Washington where we have had two-tenths of an inch this winter, forward your snow to us!

Oh hi March!

March is a weird word for a month.

Only marginally less odd that it comes from the name of the Roman god of war! Winter's over lads, get back to it

It's not like many of them make much sense. February is just a weird word altogether, while September, October, November and December are based on the Latin for seven, eight, nine and ten, respectively. All very plainspoken and orderly you might think. But they're months 9 through 12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBEesrdaRog

The numerical discrepancy is because the calendar ours is based on originally only had ten months in it so when they inserted two new ones it got all messed up. Why did they add them at beginning and mess up the count? They didn't! Originally New Year's Day was March 1st and January and February were at the end of the year.

xp - half a century old and as fresh as ever!

definitely getting the 'in like a lion' treatment here in northern california

SoCal, too!

calm down march jeez

Two weeks till my Montanaversary — on March 15, 2023, my wife and I got on a plane from Newark to Kalispell (via Salt Lake City). Can't believe it's been a whole year. We fucking love it so much here, too.