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Out of the Blue
[Jan 07, 2022, 11:40 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

There has been some extreme weather in various areas this fall/winter, but we're having the first real snowfall of the season here. There are threats that this may drop a bomb cyclone but it doesn't seem to have exploded. Yet, at least. There have been some changes to how the parking lots will be plowed here, so I'm on alert to move our cars when the time comes. There's a little pressure with that, as it's like scrambling snow-covered jets. But it always works out, so I'm just staying in the zone. Hopefully things work out as smoothly for everyone in the storm's path.

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Re: OotB: Getting Plowed
Jan 8, 2022, 11:11

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Re: OotB: Getting Plowed Jan 8, 2022, 11:11

Jan 8, 2022, 11:11

Blue

LordSteev wrote on Jan 8, 2022, 09:06:
Didn't know where else to put this...extremely disappointed by the Genshin Impact add takeover of this site. One of the things I've always loved about Blues News is not having to deal with adds on the bottom of the screen. This one reopens itself even after you close it, and expands to take up almost half my screen. Maybe I need a better add blocker, but this is the first time ever that I've been annoyed coming to this site.

I told our ad provider about the way those ads reappear at the bottom of the screen and re-expand after being closed, but were told they are supposed to work that way. We said we were not going to run them in that case, but they are now appearing, so clearly something has gone wrong.

I have informed them and demanded the ads be removed. Unfortunately, it's the weekend, and since they are in the UK, it's already pretty late in the day. So it may not be cleared up until after the weekend.

My apologies.

Stephen "Blue" Heaslip
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