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I don’t want to be a pain or start a riot—or maybe I do 😉...

The generally accepted summer is almost over (Aug 31) and we are also nearing the official end of summer (Sept 21)—- it has been a loooooong time since the EE team announced more official details about the long awaited 2.0 software. We have heard about general features, but no specs, timing, pricing, specifics…

Clearly noting needs to be announced prior to the release but the team sorta put it out there by presenting at SxSW and giving a bit of information.

Hope we can get an update soon.

Looking forward to it

Adam

Somehow, I doubt that reminding them that summer is ending (or beginning soon?) is going to help speed things up.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m as excited as just about anyone else, but I’m resigned to wait for the amazing 2.0 until it’s ready.
It won’t stop me from using EE anytime soon, whether it comes out now, or in 2009. But I’m hoping for soon as well.

If you go by the weather, summer doesn’t end in my neck of the woods before Halloween.

(Full disclosure: my estimation of “summer weather” may be skewed by my having lived in Fairbanks for five years.)

I am headed to Fairbanks soon from El Paso (where summer starts in mid-January and ends after Christmas..😉).  Not looking forward to winter in Alaska..

Ahhh, Fairbanks. My ex went there for Winter Survival school in the late seventies. I have a brother that’s a lawyer in El Paso. 😊

My ex wanted to retire in Fairbanks, I voted for somewhere else. 😊

I am headed to Fairbanks soon from El Paso (where summer starts in mid-January and ends after Christmas..😉).  Not looking forward to winter in Alaska..

I moved to Fairbanks in mid-August (the anniversary was nine days ago) so I had a little bit of time before the leaves started turning. It didn’t snow that year until October 10 (having grown up where an inch of snow was a winter to talk about for a lifetime, of course I remember the exact date), but it hit 45 below unusually early—Thanksgiving—and when a neighbor’s friend backed into my car my bumper ... shattered.

That was the winter of my one and only ice-related traffic accident, in which my newly repaired car didn’t even get a scratch but an oncoming car trying to avoid hitting me as I spun 180 degrees, went off the road and hit a light pole. The subsequent winters my wife and I both sprung for studded tires.

By the time I’d been there a few years I was going around in the winter with no hat or gloves and my coat unzipped, and when someone asked me about it I said, “It’s above zero, ain’t it?” In the spring when the temps finally got up to 32 above, people drive around with their windows rolled down and their jackets thrown in the back or on the passenger seat.

Upsides: Fairbanks is one of the best places in the world to see the Northern Lights. And once you’ve lived there, you will be able to say something not many people can: that you’ve spent a winter in Interior Alaska.

I had friends who were in Fairbanks for a year in 1982. I visited them in March for a couple of weeks, also seeing Anchorage and the area around it, and the road between. It was 0-32F, at least during the day during the day, the whole time I was there—not too bad. They told me about frozen food sales at the supermarket in the colder months: the packages were just stacked up in the parking lot. The time of year I was there, the days were getting about 10 minutes longer each day, which was very noticeable.

Alaska is vast and appears that way any direction you look. The Northern Lights were worth the whole trip; photographs don’t do it justice.

Mentioning Alaska causes reminiscing.

I’m from the UK and we haven’t had a summer since 2006. 2 years of almost constant rain!

I’m from the UK too. Summer this year has been rubbish! I have seen so little sun in the last two years I’m paranoid about getting Rickets.

Never mind rickets, it’s the webbed feet and scales you should worry about. In as little as 10 years time, we’ll have evolved into Aquapeople.

Seriously thinking about moving abroad!

I was going to post earlier to this one but have been beaten to it! I was going to say it’s nice for everyone else that Summer’s almost over but spare a thought for us in the UK we simply don’t get them very often!! 😉

PLUS my day-time is spent at my day-job underground in a cellar without even so much as a window so I really am boxed in! Sometimes I come in to work in the dark and end up going home in the dark never even knowing that the day has happened!! 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark,

I sympathise, its bad enough in the winter going to work in the dark and going home in the dark, but to do that in “summer” thats tragic. Your forum posts are always so cheerful, if that was me I would be suffering from a serious case of SAD

Andy,

I grew up in Norfolk I’m quite used to people with webbed feet!

Your forum posts are always so cheerful, if that was me I would be suffering from a serious case of SAD

Thanks for that. I try my best not to let it come out in my postings as much as I can 😉

Best wishes,

Mark