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There should be an Olympic medal for winter endurance.  That is, if you are able to wake up day after day after day to cold/wet/gray/snow/wind (or a combination of all of those) and make it to the end of the season without killing anyone - or yourself - certainly you should earn a reward.  I'll even take a commemorative coin.   I know I complain ( Read more... )

This winter has...how do I put this delicately??

SUCKED.

Cold, miserable, brutal, depressing....those are just words.  Words that can't even begin to descriptively assess the true misery that has been winter in Illinois.  A friend sent me a link to this article this morning, and this pretty well sums it up ( Read more... )