by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/29/2025 03:15 AM
Not sure if that was the day I remember. I remember heavy snow in downtown Seattle and that it was about the same time as Spokane was pummeled by about 2 feet of snow in about 24 hours, something I have yet to see here in Spokane in such a short span of time.
I remember that day in year 2008 and I was as sure as I remain today that there is something I must find that will get me out of here.
Back in that time - as now, almost 20 years later - I was sitting in that really small apartment, for several years, on a hard chair, hunched over my laptop computer and this stuff was a lot more labor intensive than now, because a few years later, one day, I wrote a software program that automated more of it than before. Still could use more work, that I will probably never accomplish.
That one day I saw it snowing heavily and rarely in downtown Seattle, I walked outside my apartment in the shadow of the Space Needle, and I felt somewhat guilty for not being at my desk during the daytime, thinking certainly I was only a few hours away from discovering the answer I needed.
THEY would have stopped me already if this was not what was so carefully and deliberately planned for me
If there was one thing SMART recently from Mark Kelly and his posse is it they PROVED that Donald J. Trump is a crybaby.
PROVED.
He's history's greatest douchebag and the crybaby that brings the greatest discredit to the USA.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/18/08 9:41 AM
One place I just measured had slightly more than 2.5 inches of accumalated snow.
There was already a significant amount of snow visible on the ground when I looked outside the window about 5:45 this morning and I was under the impression from the weather reports that it had only started snowing around that time but I don't really know when it started here.
12/18/08 11:32 AM
A measurement just now in another spot nearby that seemed well sheltered from the wind was almost 3.75 inches of snow.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2008/12/radical-weather-shift-on-friday.html
From 9/27/1929 ( "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway ) To 12/17/2008 ( ) is 28936 days
28936 = 14468 + 14468
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/13/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle documents includes: Other Medications - Risperdal started 6/13/05 - University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle ) is 14468 days
From 9/13/1950 ( Harry Truman - Letter to Committee Chairmen Transmitting Bill To Permit General Marshall To Serve as Secretary of Defense ) To 12/17/2008 ( ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( an aviator in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 1/15/1961 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twentieth Century"::"Battle of Cassino" ) To 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to and arrive at Spokane Valley for the Crossland ) is 15751 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/17/2008 ( ) is 15751 days
From 11/28/1976 ( desperate for oxygen replenishment there from loss due to accident months earlier, my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his departure from Jupiter moon Callisto for his 04/14/1977 successful return to planet Earth - from his successful strike in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn to divert comet nicknamed "Lucifer", threatening the existence by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth ) To 12/17/2008 ( ) is 11707 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/21/1997 ( ) is 11707 days
The Spokesman-Review
Spokane
Region paralyzed by snow
Thu., Dec. 18, 2008, 5:25 p.m.
By Mike Prager
Snowplow crews worked furiously Thursday against a wintry onslaught that dropped record amounts of snow over the Inland Northwest, repeating a pattern left from the brutal 2007-’08 winter.
At nearly 2 feet, the snow was so deep that it forced Spokane crews to focus on major arterial routes in an effort to keep the city from being completely choked.
Stores and government offices closed. Workers stayed home on the advice of authorities on both sides of the state line.
Forecasters warned that there may not be much time to dig out, and the work will have to be done in single-digit temperatures today and Saturday.
Another snowstorm could bring 5 inches or more Sunday with yet another storm in the offing for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Spokane ended up with 23.3 inches over 34 hours ending at 4 p.m. Thursday. Coeur d’Alene had 25 inches by Thursday morning. Other locations had more.
It was the most snow received in both Spokane and Coeur d’Alene in a 24-hour period since record-keeping began.
A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway, author
(from internet transcript)
BOOK FOUR
33
“Tell me,” he said, “what is happening at the front?”
“I would not know about the front.”
“I saw you come down the wall. You came off the train.”
“There is a big retreat.”
“I read the papers. What happens? Is it over?”
“I don’t think so.”
He filled the glass with grappa from a short bottle. “If you are in trouble,” he said, “I can keep you.”
“I am not in trouble.”
“If you are in trouble stay here with me.”
“Where does one stay?”
“In the building. Many stay here. Any who are in trouble stay here.”
“Are many in trouble?”
“It depends on the trouble. You are a South American?”
“No.”
“Speak Spanish?”
“A little.”
He wiped off the bar.
“It is hard now to leave the country but in no way impossible.”
“I have no wish to leave.”
“You can stay here as long as you want. You will see what sort of man I am.”
by me, Kerry Burgess, 12/19/08 10:17 AM
the Senate version of the Medal of Honor Flag bill was introduced by Chuck Grassley of Iowa on 6/25/2002.
from 11/20/1983 to 6/25/2002 divided by 2 equals 3/3/1959 to 6/19/1968.
12/19/08 10:25 AM
Chuck Grassley of Iowa was 33 years, 59 days, old on 11/15/1966.
he was elected to the House for the term beginning 1/3/1975 and then elected to the Senate for the term beginning in 1981.
his age difference with 10/28/1955 equals 3/3/1959 to 4/12/1981.
12/19/08 10:29 AM
Thomas Latham's age difference with 3/24/1956 equals 3/3/1959 to 11/11/1966.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 03:35 AM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 11/29/2025
