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Well, it's cold again. It was -4°F when I left the house yesterday morning, but with the 12 MPH wind it felt more like -22°. It's a little warmer today: it was 2° when I left, with a wind chill of -11°. But I dressed in layers and I delayed leaving the house as long as possible, so my wait for the bus was reasonably comfortable, or at least not ( Read more... )

I hereby retract any statements I made prior to this date about it being butt cold.


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I've decided that I'm going to try to start making regular posts to my LJ again. This may have been self-evident to a certain degree, but I'm explicitly mentioning it so as to make clear that this is intended to be a sustained effort, not just a transitory spasm of posting. We'll see how well I do at keeping up with it.So saith me, on January 6 of ( Read more... )

It snowed in Madison last night!


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Here are some ways I might have described the weather today, were I still in college:

• Butt cold
• Ochen cold
• Colder than a witch's tit

I was introduced to using "butt" as an all-purpose intensifier by my college pal Dick Z., who lived in the room next to me. His reasoning was that if "butt" could be used to mean "very" in the phrase "butt ugly," ( Read more... )

It's been raining for most of the last three days here in Madison, which totally bites. I mean, OK, I'll admit we needed the water. Last summer's drought was severe enough that we didn't fully recover from it until this week. But speaking as a pedestrian and bus rider, rain is just the worst. Even with an umbrella and waterproof boots, you get wet ( Read more... )