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cblj_backupEither I caught this head cold at the party on Saturday, or possibly I gave it to everyone else; either way, everyone I know is sick, including our entire department. Good thing the Davos research and the yearly budget are both due this week!
I cannot believe how much snot is coming from my face. It seems unlikely that the front of my face could contain or create this much fluid, so I'm forced to conclude that my brain is now producing or storing snot. Which would explain why I'm functioning at half my normal speed, I suppose. That could also be the Sudafed.
Good thing it's not snowing...wait, what?
This weather is seriously creeping me out. There has been no snow this winter -- it has snowed three times, but it hasn't stuck once. It feels like early spring. It's January in Chicago and people are going around in light sweaters. It's been like nine months since we've had snow.
The apparent cause is a shift in the jet stream, which is sweeping further south before it hits us or possibly just not hitting us at all or something, I wasn't paying that much attention to the weather channel when they were explaining it. I don't know if that's global warming or El Nino or whatever, but I don't like it at all. The warm weather in itself is still creeptastic, like I'm living in some pre-dystopian moment in the first five minutes of a weather disaster film, but even creepier is that nobody else seems alarmed by it. Some people don't seem to have noticed that it's January and we haven't had winter yet. Some people are happy about it, and I feel like setting them on fire.
Maybe it's about to really slam us. I could just do with a blizzard right now.
I cannot believe how much snot is coming from my face. It seems unlikely that the front of my face could contain or create this much fluid, so I'm forced to conclude that my brain is now producing or storing snot. Which would explain why I'm functioning at half my normal speed, I suppose. That could also be the Sudafed.
Good thing it's not snowing...wait, what?
This weather is seriously creeping me out. There has been no snow this winter -- it has snowed three times, but it hasn't stuck once. It feels like early spring. It's January in Chicago and people are going around in light sweaters. It's been like nine months since we've had snow.
The apparent cause is a shift in the jet stream, which is sweeping further south before it hits us or possibly just not hitting us at all or something, I wasn't paying that much attention to the weather channel when they were explaining it. I don't know if that's global warming or El Nino or whatever, but I don't like it at all. The warm weather in itself is still creeptastic, like I'm living in some pre-dystopian moment in the first five minutes of a weather disaster film, but even creepier is that nobody else seems alarmed by it. Some people don't seem to have noticed that it's January and we haven't had winter yet. Some people are happy about it, and I feel like setting them on fire.
Maybe it's about to really slam us. I could just do with a blizzard right now.
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Date: 2012-01-10 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-10 09:11 pm (UTC)Our neighbors had a tree in their back yard that toppled and ripped out the power line and took the weather head right off the side of the house as well. They made do for a week with a couple of little generators and their gas stove.
My mom-well she went without power for a full week, but the day after the storm, we went to town and talked the local Home Depot into selling their display unit whole-house generator. We took it out, hooked it up to a portable propane bottle, and hard wired in the basics-heat, lights in the kitchen, electric outlets so the fridge/freezer were still running. That got her by till the power got fixed. Then all she had to worry about was the entire tops of her 50 year old maple trees. The yard looked like a giant was playing with jackstraws. We used a chipper on everything under about 1.5 inches, and still ended up with 2-3 cords of wood, then when she got them trimmed, added another cord or so to the pile.