I'm a weakling, a wuss, a weinie, a...say--why do words for the weak-willed all have double-Ues? ANYWAY, I'm any sort of coward you can think of when I see stories like this:
Brrr! It's gonna be freezing!
Arctic air will chill Alabama for the next 24 to 48 hours as strong winds today carry bitter cold across the state. The lows for Birmingham are forecast to be 18 and 17 on Friday and Saturday mornings, said Ken Lorek, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Calera. [..]
I hate cold weather like this. I don't find it refreshing or bracing or friskiness-inducing in the least. Yes, I know you folks up in the Yukon and Siberia think nothing of such temperatures and think I'm being a big fat baby, but if I wanted to live in a deep-freeze like that, I'd have left a long time ago. As an American, it is my right to have the outside temperature adjusted to meet my exact desires, and that's all there is to it!
Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 12:35 PMIt's times such as this that I am grateful for global warming since I otherwise might die of the cold.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at December 7, 2006 12:53 PMBut dangitall, if global warming can't do any better than 17 degrees, what good is it!? I say if you're gonna do anything, do it RIGHT.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 12:56 PMWell, to the cold's credit, we can have a fire in the fireplace tomorrow, which will take my guests minds off the cobwebs.
Can't we move this project to one of my sister-in-law's houses now? They have cleaning ladies.
Posted by: Janis Gore at December 7, 2006 01:48 PMI'd invite the cleaning ladies to your shindig.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 01:56 PMCan you spell appalled?
Posted by: Janis Gore at December 7, 2006 02:08 PMYes, but don't tell anyone.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 02:13 PMA woman in Missouri who had been reading my blog e-mailed a while back.
She has taken on an 18-year-old female rescued Vos Maeri Eclectus. The bird's name is "Zephyr."
Posted by: Janis Gore at December 7, 2006 02:17 PMBundle up, cover your face outside (breathing through a scarf helps), wear warm socks and shoes and you'll live. I would die in your heat/humidity in the summer - to each his own.
It's 15 degrees NOW - at the warmest part of the day. We won't mention the 9 mph wind and resultant wind chill.
In true Wisconsin tradition, the forecast reads a high of 42 degrees on Saturday.
Posted by: Diane at December 7, 2006 02:41 PMI'm also going to wear my long-johns to work tomorrow. HEY! SETTLE DOWN--no pictures! I'm going to also wear my field jacket with the liner, and a headpiece of live chinchillas.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 02:57 PMAre live chincillas any warmer than dead ones?
Posted by: Diane at December 7, 2006 03:08 PMOh, you betcha. And a lot more entertaining, too.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 03:10 PMAnd they enjoy have dust baths with the dust bunnies under the couch.
Posted by: Sarah G. at December 7, 2006 03:18 PMWhat they do on their own time is no business of mine.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 7, 2006 03:22 PM