I caught a cold-like thing two weeks back, and it kept me off the running and gym in order that I not drown in mucus and/or freeze to death. I've been back at the gym this week, but still on reduced weights; no running as it's FRICKIN' FREEZING outside. By which I mean the temperature is in single digit celsius values; you people who consider this ( Read more... )

I'm back. Two weeks in Cyprus, where I discovered something called "sunshine". I believe we should see about importing some of it to this damp and miserable island.

Every so often I'm looking at a weather forecast, and I fully expect to see "WIND: NSFW" somewhere down the listing.

waider: it's nasty and cold out there
lou: --> looks out the window at the sun
waider: yeah, that sun is lying.
And indeed it was. Some hours after the above chat, I was snowed on.

I wonder who decided that the June Bank Holiday would be a good time to clean the stiletto in the ghetto? And I wonder if this is what's inducing the rain in the area, you know, like how it always seems to rain just after you've washed your car?

We've had a bit of a cold snap here, meaning the temperature occasionally dips below freezing; combined with the wind chill and the sudden showers of hail. I've decided that discretion is the better part of not freezing to death in pursuit of a sub-23-minute 5k lap.

Just watching some of the parade coverage on TV; it's 4°C with windchill down to -1, occasional flurries of light snow, and there are a bunch of girls out on O'Connell street in genuine Brazillian samba outfits, i.e. those bits of shiny metal and cloth with the square footage of a postage stamp. They're claiming that all the moving around is ( Read more... )

BBC is reporting that Nabi killed 9; my post yesterday from Yomimuri may well have been 18 dead or missing as opposed to confirmed dead. The preceeding typhoon, Talim, accounted for 84 dead in China.

I am quoting this almost in its entirety, since I am not clear on how unique the link is. the Federal Emergency Management Agency ... ask[s] evacuees to call (800) 621-3362 or browse to www.fema.gov to start the process of filing a claim for disaster assistance...

It turns out, according to the [Red Cross] worker, who like the other aid workers ( Read more... )

SUPA TAIFUUN NABI has breezed (hah!) across Kyushu as something between a Cat. 1 and Cat. 2 storm, currently blowing at 80 knots and gusting to 100. It's swinging up through the Sea of Japan, looking very much like it will bypass Honshu, and is predicted to be a mere tropical storm by the time it connects with Hokkaido. Yomimuri Online reports 45, ( Read more... )