Anomalous Data - I'm not saying it's cold but...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

...I think my molocules have stopped moving.

Grasshopper and I wait outside in the -30+ windchill for 20 minutes. Then I made a rude gesture in the direction the bus SHOULD have come from and went to warm up the car.

It took three minutes to warm up the car, twenty minutes to drive to the school, five minutes to wait in the traffic circle, and another 20 to drive back.

The cabin of the car never got warm.

I can't feel my feet.

One thing you can say about the weather in @#)%*$#% Minnesota...it keeps the riff-raff out.

[Update: My mom just called from "up nort". There, it is -35 WITHOUT factoring in windchill. They watch the neighbor girl in the mornings when her mom is at work. They drove her to the bus stop this morning, obviously.]

[Update II: The benefit of having a home office is more than just the nice commute past the coffee pot. When you're stuck in an office and you are cold, you are out of luck. It's just plain COLD. Suck it up for 8-10 hours. When you are at home and your cold, you can get some bread baking in the oven and the house is warm again. Plus - bread. mmmmmm...fresh baked bread. The downside is, of course, good luck finding 8-10 hours of work everyday.]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:58:23 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [10] | Personal

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:22:15 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Umm would now be a bad time to point out that your husand would, if anything have an easier time working in his industry if he were out in Seattle where it DOESN'T get down to "Get back in the house NOW!" ?

Just sayin is all.

Bob Wagner

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:44:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

I don't know, I'm not sure he would enjoy Seattle that much without his wife and children.

Besides, the cost of living is waaaaa-y-y-y too high.

Teresa

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:43:15 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

A)I was thinking WITH his wife and kids. Sort of a mass Lhotka migration to where taking a breath outdoors in February DOESN'T give one a fair idea of what it's like to get hit in the lungs with a straight razor.

B) Cat did her research-it's what she does. It's not that much more and the wages paid out there actually compensate for the difference plus a bit extra.

Just sayin is all.

Bob Wagner

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:26:21 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Um. Yeah. YOU try to take a 6'+ 14-year-old away from his friends, extra-curricular activities he's established in, and move him to a new school.

I'd rather get hit in the lungs with a straight razor, thank you very much.

Teresa

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30:05 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

And that's not to mention the fuss Grasshopper would put up...and he's still shorter than me, but he's a FEIRCE little ankle biter.

Teresa

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:28:10 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

If we're recruiting Lhotka's, I'm going to put in the pitch for New England! We had mid 60's over the weekend and very little snow all winter. Mountains, oceans, less rain and full of academics and fairly liberal folks. Did I mention our gaming parties? ;-)

dracut

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:16:28 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Warm, liberal, academics AND gamers?

Sounds like paradise!

I talked to my mom up in North Dakota this morning. Last night it was -50. Granted, we weren't a helluva lot warmer. I just keep thinking of all the LIVING we could be doing if we weren't afraid to die on our doorstep from the elements.

>One thing you can say about the weather in @#)%*$#% Minnesota...it keeps the riff-raff out.

That WAS said with sarcasm, wasn't it!? They say the same thing in ND and I've met PLENTY of riff-raff in both places!

Kristi

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:25:57 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

OK, well, it keeps the riff-raff indoors several months out of the year.

:-)

Teresa

Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:46:32 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

A)The lads gotta sleep sometime as my own dearly departed mom used to say. Not to mention your boys might fuss some but I haven't seen too many kids hold their parents in higher esteem than yours do.

B)Warm, liberal (minus the borshst shlorping gay-bashers and that idiot baptist preacher mentioned in these very pages) and gamer-plagued accurately sums up the pacific northwest as well.

and C) Doesn't is JUST SUCK having all these people saying "No no, I want you to live on MY street!"

Love ya Trees ;)

Bob Wagner

Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:01:16 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Dracut,

WE'LL think about it if you all find and remodel a house for us! :-)

Teresa

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