(07-25-2025 09:21 AM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(07-24-2025 01:34 PM)mlb Wrote:  How about this hot weather?

Has anyone ever heard of "Corn Sweat" before? Apparently an acre of corn evaporates 4,000+ gallons of water per day. In areas of the midwest, this contributes to the high humidity!

Quote:A heat dome — plus the "corn sweat" phenomenon in some areas — is bringing dangerous levels of heat and humidity to much of the country east of the Rockies this week.

Why it matters: Heat warnings and advisories stretch from Louisiana and the Florida panhandle up to Chicago and beyond as of Tuesday afternoon, covering nearly 85 million Americans.

Driving the news: The main driver is hot, moist air being drawn up from the Atlantic and trapped by a high pressure ridge.

• Also contributing in some places: "Corn sweat," wherein vast amounts of growing corn and other produce give off moisture through evapotranspiration, further increasing humidity levels in and around agricultural zones.
• "While corn sweat is never the main reason for major heat," Axios Des Moines' Linh Ta wrote back in 2023, "it can add to it."

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/22/heat-wa...t-forecast

We have a trip to Maine coming up in a few weeks. Looking forward to the cooler weather up there.

Actually all vegetation does that. Pine trees here in the south pour huge sums of H2O into the atmosphere. A mature pine soaks up and releases about 80 gallons of water a day. And the amount of Co2 is just as amazing. Most people think the corn plant and pine trees are made of material from the earth. But the actual wood and fibrous material are almost 100% H2O from the ground and CO2 from the atmosphere converted to plant material by photosynthesis. It literally creates itself from thin air.

As Bob said, fishing does something that makes you crave a smoke. When I used to get together with The Deplorbles a fishing group at the lake there was this guy who only smoked when away from his wife. I always knew he had cigarettes and I would give him a dollar for a cig because I didn't want to be that guy that only smokes because they're free. I used to enjoy that cigarette so much, but only one.

I used to buy a pack when I was between marriages but I never finished the pack, I would give it away or just throw it in the trash. I would get a sore throat after a few so I stopped entirely except for the one cig at the lake.

I quit smoking 14 years ago. 7/11/11

(07-25-2025 12:09 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(07-25-2025 11:01 AM)bobdizole Wrote:  

(07-25-2025 09:49 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(07-25-2025 09:25 AM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(07-25-2025 06:51 AM)gdunn Wrote:  I've been MIA, just doing hits here and there..

Update on ol' G..

I have two different projects going on.
I got a nice mid-year bump in pay.
I've been put in for a promotion for the EOY.
I quit nicotine again. Been 2 weeks since I had a Zyn or a dip.
I'm heading to Oklahoma for a week here in a few days to see my BIL and his family.
When I get back I'll be in the midst of a dry month.
In a few weeks we'll be celebrating the kid's 10th birthday and the opening of college football.
In related news, the kid is interested in football (finally) and I'm working on getting tickets to a game for the local college (my company has season tix, just trying to get tix for a game that won't be a big crowd)

Congrats on the raise and the pending promotion. Good on you for quitting nicotine! I always find this quote from Mark Twain humorous:

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times"

I go through my phases.. Last round I was done for 3 years.

Grandfather used to say once you are a smoker, you are always a smoker. Sometimes it's a really long time inbetween smokes though. We were going fishing one day and he bought a pack at the gas station where we got bait. Smoked one one the way to the lake, through the pack out and said that'll hold me over for a couple years.

It's been about a year since my last one and everyonce in awhile I'll catch the smell of smoke mixed with something else and I swear to God I start drooling

I smoked 2+ packs a day for 23 years, from age 19 to 43. I quit 6 times before it finally stuck. Haven't smoked since Nov of 1989.

Hardest thing I ever did in my life.

About 14 years ago, I had bladder cancer, and had two large tumors removed. My urologist said it was almost certainly caused by smoking, and I was lucky as hell it didn't kill me.

Crazy. I was back visiting the family in Knoxville this past weekend and me and my stepmom talked about this. Her brother has bladder cancer and was a heavy smoker for pretty much his entire life until recently, and she was curious if the two were related.

I’ve smoked black and milds, cigars, weed, hookah, etc., occasionally in the past (though it’s been years since I’ve smoked, except the intermittent doobie once or twice a year) but could never get myself to try a cigarette. Think it’s because I was around it so much as a kid with my grandparents, and ended up hating the smell.

Kudos to those in here that have quit.

I quit smoking after the first one I tried. Never understood why anyone would do it after that.

(07-25-2025 03:19 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I quit smoking after the first one I tried. Never understood why anyone would do it after that.

Some people treat scotch the same way.

(07-25-2025 08:44 AM)TomorrowHerd Wrote:  

(07-24-2025 03:06 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  I'm still trying to figure out the wind velocity of an unladen swallow. Anybody wanna help? lol

African or European?

You got the Monty Python reference! Well done, man! (You as well, tanq! Nice job!)

ollie: I'd rather not, but thanks. lol

BigApp: No, no. tanq's response was fine. Trust me on this. Speaking of...

tanq: I've never been much of a whiskey man. I tried bourbon once. I hated the taste so I haven't touched it since. No, when I was a drinker, my thing, other than beer, was the Irish car bomb. The only problem was a few of those bad boys would tear me the hell up! lol