Rant; Winter 2013/14

[Molly]

Raise your hand if you just got back from Mexico.

And foolishly threw away the form you needed to get back

[jim]

Raise your hand if you just got back from Mexico.

And foolishly threw away the form you needed to get back

The foolish part was getting the form to come back.

[Freed Roger]

Who am I?

Wah wah wah. It's 10 below. It snowed 9 inches Wah wah wah. I haven't seen the sun in 2 months. The winds are 25 mph and the windchill is 30 below. Wah wah wah.

[SHOW]

St. Louis person.

Would have responded sooner, but just got back from a walk at lunch. It felt good outside, until I started heading back (north). The wind made the temps feel like in the teens! Weird, my face was freezing, but was breaking a sweat.

Running half-marathon tomorrow AM. It will be gametime decision on shorts, 33degrees, but 20mph wind. Oy Vey!

[jim]

33? [expletive] it just wear your swimming trunks and take a swim in the lake afterwords.

[Freed Roger]

33? [expletive] it just wear your swimming trunks and take a swim in the lake afterwords.

Look at the bright side -at least you can expect Winter to be like this. I imagine it's worse in the Spring - when you are way past ready for it to be over, and we are down here with the grass turning green and we're seeing women running around in sports bras, Cardinal baseball etc, and you are up there with a brown landscape, women keeping the goods in storage, and it's pissing cold rain, Cubs etc.

[jim]

Yeah spring sucks here. Month by month here is the breakdown of which place is better, a + indicating significantly better.

Jan: STL
Feb: STL
Mar: STL+
Apr: STL +
May: STL +
Jun: Push
Jul: CHI
Aug: CHI
Sep: Push
Oct: STL
Nov: STL
Dec: STL

[Freed Roger]

We sure earned the little break we're getting here Sunday -might top 50. A little daytrip may be in order. A brewery and/or lunch out a ways - places I've been meaning to visit. Maybe a walk at a park. Are the wineries open?

Yeah, we'll still be inside most the time, but so0oo0 much easier to get out and about. At least you feel like getting out. Something about a wee hint of warmer weather brings hope, and sparks ye imagination.

I'll be looking out over a still barren landscape on a day like this Sunday and I can almost feel what it's like in the spring. I'll say to my wife - "this is pretty, we should come back again when the trees are leafed out....hey this sun feels good...what is that vitamin you get in the sun, I'm getting me some....hey, did I show you that pic my bro in WI sent of his kids all bundled up making a snowman....so cute."

[jim]

That's called summer freed. Enjoy it.

[jim]

It's snowing. I will have to shovel 2" tomorrow morning. Sunday 4" more. Starting Sunday night we won't get above 0 for 72 hours.

From Tom Skillethead who I am sure has been masturbating all winter to these storms:

With Chicago in it's 3rd consecutive month of below normal temps with a 0-deg or lower count of 15 days to date the 4th largest in 143 years of weather records and a Friday morning low which bottomed out at 6-below at both Midway and O'Hare-and as cold as 11-below at Romeoville,

The 2013-14 season's 44.8" of snow makes this the snowiest to date in Chicago since the 1977-78 season and ranks 3rd snowiest of any season here over 129 years of official records.

And that was before an inch of snow yesterday, a couple of more tonight, and 3-5 on the way Sunday. Indiana has probably doubled that.

So it's not my imagination.

[IMADreamer]

Snow tonight, snow tomorrow night, 45 Sunday. Colder then a witches tit next week. I'm trying to decide if it's worth going for a Sunday drive or not just to get out and have some fun. I'll spend half of Monday cleaning the [expletive] off the car though.