I Loved This Week

Good evening, folks. Sorry for not posting lately. Just enjoying the rest of my vacation week from work before I head back home tomorrow. My week started off pretty well. I got to send out more resumes and applications again to Springfield, MO, a TV station that serves Joplin, MO, and to Decatur, IL. On Wednesday, I decided to head back to Columbia, MO to visit family and friends. If you haven't been to Mizzou lately, construction has been a fairly common sight. However, I finally got to see inside The Shack.

The Shack was an old hangout for Mizzou students that has not been around for several years. Before the end of last year, it finally reopened to a new generation of Mizzou students. What's unique about his place is that students are able to carve their names into the walls. While some of the walls were preserved from the original Shack, there are new areas where students can carve on the walls to leave their mark. The place has a little eatery called Mort's, 4 pool tables, 2 foosball tables, a shuffleboard table, an Xbox360 with Kinect set up, a free Pac-Man game and a free jukebox that can also play songs from your iPod.

I did get to go to the station for the past few days to catch up with the First Alert Weather Team. For Thursday, I was able to do a professional photo shoot courtesy of Scott Schaefer. I like the shots and I really like this particular head shot.

Today, I got to make the forecast again and let me just say that I'm glad snow is not in the forecast. Here's what the setup will be for Columbia tonight.

Clouds will stick around throughout the overnight hours with a few areas, including Columbia, seeing some scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Most of Mid-Missouri will stay fairly quiet tonight with a break on Sunday. However, when Sunday Night comes around...

This line of showers, accompanying the next cold front, will move through Sunday Night and rain chances will end as we head into Monday morning. Here's how the next 8 days looks for Columbia...

After the rain moves out on Monday, we clear the skies out and expect temperatures will climb back into the middle 50s. The next chance for precipitation will be rain and only rain as another system comes through on Thursday. However, the system is quick to move out as skies begin to get a little more sunny and temperatures moderate into the middle 40s as we look ahead into next weekend. Have a good night, everyone!