Free stuff!

[boywonder.livejournal.com]

Just walked by a nice antique/vintage bureau off of Powederhouse on Dow. In pretty good shape. I'd take it, but I don't need another.

SnOMG! It's gone!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I actually declared it officially gone for the sake of the poll on Monday, then forgot to post. With the streets clean, it was getting hard to justify the idea that it still there in any meaningful way. I know there are still remnants of big piles (and even a teeny amount in my yard due to it getting shoveled into an apparently remarkably shaded spot), but let's face it, we are (at least for now) free of the evil frozen white stuff. Yay!

Plus it was Pi Day.

Which makes the sole winner kelkyag. All glory to them!

Of the 55 total guesses, there were only four earlier dates (one in Feb and three in Mar). The remaining fifty followed, with 13 more in March, 21 in April, 14 in May, and one each in June and July. If we end up with more snow that doesn't melt right away, there may be another winner.

Both the (rounded) mean and median averages were April 15, and the two most popular answers with four guesses each were April 15 and May 15. So the lesson here is do your taxes. Also we are apparently a very pessimistic bunch. (June and July? Come on!)

Arguments may now commence over my poor judgement in determining the results.

ETA: Here are all the guesses in date order and formatted for easy processing:
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My mind is in the gutter!

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

So, gutters. Looking through the "home repair" tag back to 2009 isn't giving me any leads. Does anyone have gutter folks they'd recommend?