• Tue, 09:11: I swear, every single year, the first snow of the season, the ENTIRE CITY forgets how to drive in it.

At choir on Tuesday, I found out that Robin is a synaesthete.  We were singing out my music (she didn't have hers) and Z told us to start at "rehearsal five," and I, being in that kind of mood, decided to give Robin a complete non-sequitur: "And five is red."  Her reaction was somewhere along the lines of, "Of course five is red, but how did you ( Read more... )

There is ACTUAL COLDNESS COMING IN THROUGH MY WINDOW.  More, please ( Read more... )

The weather has finally cooled.  Yesterday and today I've had the windows open.  We spent a small fortune keeping our place livable this last month, so this is an enormous relief.  Also just nice.  I can go outside and not melt ( Read more... )

We've reached one of the two points in the year when going outside is a risky proposition.  The other one is January ( Read more... )

It's sixty-five degrees out (that's 17C, roughly), sunny, with a warm breeze.  There's a 30% chance of thunderstorms tonight.  In March.  Tomorrow, naturally, we're looking at a high of not-quite-fifty degrees (8C).  Friday night there could be snow.  I love this climate.

Amy has gotten into Avatar: the Last Airbender.  I don't know how she ( Read more... )

So I wimped out and worked from home today.  Went pretty well, actually.  It is astonishingly cold out, but it was also sunny, which means it was astonishingly cold and blindingly bright.  Did some essential shopping over lunch: at one point, I was coaxing my car down a relatively steep bit of drive, doing what I could not to end up sideways, and ( Read more... )

Schools were closed today, and schools will be closed tomorrow.  We've missed the bulk of the blizzard, and have got powerful biting icy winds instead.  This is the first time I can recall that they've closed the parts of the Interstate that run through town.  Rural stretches get closed now and again, but in-city highways stay clear by dint of ( Read more... )

The snow hasn't let up since last night.  It's been light, fluffy, picturesque snow the whole time.  And we're supposed to get more all the way through tonight ( Read more... )

It's snowing pretty good out there, and it's supposed to keep up all through tomorrow.  There's a decent chance that I'll be working from home as a result.  I was talking to Joe today (coworker and fellow tenor at church), and he was saying how he would have preferred our first snow day to not be during Quarter End, but that it might as well be ( Read more... )