Rant; Winter 2013/14

[IMADreamer]

It's about 9 degrees here today. We got a quick blast of a couple inches of snow overnight and lost power most of the night. It's back now at least. It was getting cold in here.

[jim]

I'm going to blame this on winter and not my own forgetfullness, because truly it was all the damned clothes I had to wear to get out the door that caused most of it. Here is my morning:

Get up to find a little snow to need shoveled. Shovel it. Lose 10 minutes

Realize my kid parked in back of me, get his key and move his car.

Get 1/2 way to the gym and realize I still have his key in my ginormous coat pocket along with hats and gloves and other winter [expletive]. Didn't notice.

Return to house to drop key off, lose about 10 minutes.

Get to gym and workout, realize I don't have my wallet. But I have gloves and hats and ice scrapers and [expletive] like that.

Workout and drive home to get wallet - lose 15 minutes

On the way to work and get caught by a train - lose 5 minutes

Drive alot slower because it's so god damn cold the salt doesn't work and the streets are ice - lose 10 minutes.

Get to work and park in the middle of the lot because I can't see the space lines. Guy tells me, I realize i'm in the middle of a lane, so I move the car. Lose 1 minute

Lose my phone somewhere, just found it buried under a bunch of hats and gloves and [expletive] like that in my ginormous coat pocket.

Dressing for winter sucks.

[jim]

It's snowing. That's weird. Hard to imagine that.

[thrill]

It was so hot in my house last night, I had to run the AC to get it down to 74.
A bird sanctuary was closed in the 70's and now flocks of peach faced lovebirds are flourishing in Phoenix. They eat citrus in the winter and cactus in the summer. A bunch of them swarmed me when I was picking oranges and a grapefruit for my breakfast juice on Saturday.
I got a headache when I had to drive to Tucson the other day because I left my sunglasses at home.

Life's hard here too, you guys.

[Freed Roger]

It's snowing. That's weird. Hard to imagine that.

makes you want to bust into song eh?

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[lukethedrifter]

super freezing wind chill advisory for tonight

[jim]

Another weird thing about today - grey skies. You hardly ever see that in Chicago in the winter. Really weird. It's usually so bright and sunny and happy and wonderful.

[Molly]

super freezing wind chill advisory for tonight

We can expect a bed full of cats

[Freed Roger]

For my outdoor plans, normally I just look at a few days expected hi/low temp trend - but this winter its the hourly temp forecasts (and winds)

i.e. as of now Sunday is forecasted at high of 50, lo of 10.

[Arthur Dent]

For my outdoor plans, normally I just look at a few days expected hi/low temp trend - but this winter its the hourly temp forecasts (and winds)

i.e. as of now Sunday is forecasted at high of 50, lo of 10.

Have you checked out Weather Underground's new graph based forecasts? Neat, I think.

http://preview.wunderground.com/cgi-bin ... uery=63112