Snowbound
So, birthday was good and bad. Good, I have a new keyboard. Which I was starting to need. My last one, the keys were starting to stick. The new keyboard is one of those as seen on tv.
The bad was I struck a deer driving home. One head light is broken, some trim and the grill is smashed on the truck. A little dent on the bumper. Found out today it will cost $350 to fix. Used parts and labor. Insurance is just liability (the minimum that MN requires) because it is about a decade old truck. Parts to fix that will be in a week from today.
I was only heading home to pick up a few things before the storm hit. Mom and I stayed at the hotel, since I needed to work in the morning.
Winter storm wasn't fun. The winds made it difficult to deliver anywhere in town. I fishtailed in two wheel drive a couple times. It was that slippery.
Mom and I stayed at the hotel. Kind of nice, but I prefer being at home.
Got home and started to dig out today. Snow blower wouldn't start. Got the tractor running, so I used that for a while.
Took the snow blower in today, to be fixed. Don't know when that will be ready.
Space Pirate Asuka
Time for bed. *hugs*
Today was the winter solstice.
Word of the Day for Friday December 21, 2012
solstice • \SAHL-stiss\ • noun
: the time of year when the sun is farthest north of the equator or farthest south of the equator
Did you know?
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs on June 21 or 22 and the winter solstice on December 21 or 22. In the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed, the solstices are exactly the opposite. For several days around the time of the solstices, the sun's appearance on the horizon at sunrise and sunset seems to occur at the same spot, before it starts drifting to the north or south again. "Solstice" gets its shine from "sol," the Latin word for "sun." The ancients added "sol" to "-stit-" ("standing") and came up with "solstitium." Middle English speakers shortened "solstitium" to "solstice" in the 13th century.
He spews impolitic rhetoric all the time.
Word of the Day for Thursday December 20, 2012
impolitic • \im-PAH-luh-tik\ • adjective
: not politic : unwise
Did you know?
"Impolitic" appeared 400 years ago as an antonym of "politic," a word that basically means "shrewd," "sagacious," or "tactful." "Politic" came to us via Middle French from Latin "politicus." The Latin word, in turn, came from a Greek word based on "politēs," meaning "citizen." "Impolitic" has often been used to refer to action or policy on the part of public figures that is politically unwise-from British statesman Edmund Burke's judicious "the most ... impolitick of all things, unequal taxation" (1797) to People journalist James Kunen's ironic "The author of these impolitic remarks has risen to the very pinnacle of politics" (1988).
He pressed his algid hands against her face.
Word of the Day for Wednesday December 19, 2012
algid • \AL-jid\ • adjective
: cold
Did you know?
"Algid" is a rather cold and lonely word, etymologically speaking-it's the only word in any of the dictionaries we publish that comes from the Latin word "algēre," meaning "to feel cold." Also, English speakers have warmed to its many synonyms-among them "cold," "frigid," "arctic," "chill"-much more readily than they've taken to "algid." Even its compatriot, "gelid"-also a Latin-derived adjective that can describe ice and arctic temperatures-has managed to outpace it in most decades of the approximately 400 years the words have been in use. In one context, though, "algid" does something its synonyms don't: it describes a severe form of malaria that is marked by prostration, cold and clammy skin, and low blood pressure-a meaning that probably hasn't done much to endear the more general use to speakers of English.
The bad was I struck a deer driving home. One head light is broken, some trim and the grill is smashed on the truck. A little dent on the bumper. Found out today it will cost $350 to fix. Used parts and labor. Insurance is just liability (the minimum that MN requires) because it is about a decade old truck. Parts to fix that will be in a week from today.
I was only heading home to pick up a few things before the storm hit. Mom and I stayed at the hotel, since I needed to work in the morning.
Winter storm wasn't fun. The winds made it difficult to deliver anywhere in town. I fishtailed in two wheel drive a couple times. It was that slippery.
Mom and I stayed at the hotel. Kind of nice, but I prefer being at home.
Got home and started to dig out today. Snow blower wouldn't start. Got the tractor running, so I used that for a while.
Took the snow blower in today, to be fixed. Don't know when that will be ready.
Space Pirate Asuka
Time for bed. *hugs*
Today was the winter solstice.
Word of the Day for Friday December 21, 2012
solstice • \SAHL-stiss\ • noun
: the time of year when the sun is farthest north of the equator or farthest south of the equator
Did you know?
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs on June 21 or 22 and the winter solstice on December 21 or 22. In the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are reversed, the solstices are exactly the opposite. For several days around the time of the solstices, the sun's appearance on the horizon at sunrise and sunset seems to occur at the same spot, before it starts drifting to the north or south again. "Solstice" gets its shine from "sol," the Latin word for "sun." The ancients added "sol" to "-stit-" ("standing") and came up with "solstitium." Middle English speakers shortened "solstitium" to "solstice" in the 13th century.
He spews impolitic rhetoric all the time.
Word of the Day for Thursday December 20, 2012
impolitic • \im-PAH-luh-tik\ • adjective
: not politic : unwise
Did you know?
"Impolitic" appeared 400 years ago as an antonym of "politic," a word that basically means "shrewd," "sagacious," or "tactful." "Politic" came to us via Middle French from Latin "politicus." The Latin word, in turn, came from a Greek word based on "politēs," meaning "citizen." "Impolitic" has often been used to refer to action or policy on the part of public figures that is politically unwise-from British statesman Edmund Burke's judicious "the most ... impolitick of all things, unequal taxation" (1797) to People journalist James Kunen's ironic "The author of these impolitic remarks has risen to the very pinnacle of politics" (1988).
He pressed his algid hands against her face.
Word of the Day for Wednesday December 19, 2012
algid • \AL-jid\ • adjective
: cold
Did you know?
"Algid" is a rather cold and lonely word, etymologically speaking-it's the only word in any of the dictionaries we publish that comes from the Latin word "algēre," meaning "to feel cold." Also, English speakers have warmed to its many synonyms-among them "cold," "frigid," "arctic," "chill"-much more readily than they've taken to "algid." Even its compatriot, "gelid"-also a Latin-derived adjective that can describe ice and arctic temperatures-has managed to outpace it in most decades of the approximately 400 years the words have been in use. In one context, though, "algid" does something its synonyms don't: it describes a severe form of malaria that is marked by prostration, cold and clammy skin, and low blood pressure-a meaning that probably hasn't done much to endear the more general use to speakers of English.