I have a better technique. Fill the mug of tea the minute it becomes empty. Then it’s still warm!
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Freezing fog.
Dear divinities, but I loathe, detest, abominate, winter.
Dear divinities, but I loathe, detest, abominate, winter.
My sympathy. We have snow here which meant no bike ride to the main railway station but a bus. I swear the short days are getting to me. Oh well they won't get much shorter.
Still on the positive I must admit I am looking forward to the holiday for the first time in years as I will have a visit from Mom who will spend Xmas with me. Not seen her for 3 years - previous visits were in summer as I would go to Canada for Xmas but have not gone back since my Dad passed 5 years ago. So I may actually put up a small tree in my apartment and take Mom to the Xmas markets around the Leman lake region.
Now our students have gone this week and next is the semester admin wrap-up and grades etc. then a break.
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Agreed. I am lucky, today we are in the 17C-20C range here.
If the choice were open to me, if my species had adopted hibernation as a strategy for survival, I would happily, blissfully, ecstatically, sleep - soundly - until around the middle of March.
Snow here as well. Still the cold miserable weather perfectly matches my mood today.
A rather frustrating problem with a shared excel file was enough to push me over the edge.
Roll on January when I can put this most depressing of months behind me.
I’d be up for that. But not at the 12-15 degrees our house gets warmed up to at the moment.
No more freezing this winter. Got my little cheramic heater today.
Don’t want to cross post, pic in last purchase thread. The lil thing is effective like sh&%it.
5 minutes and bedroom was really hot. So winter will be fine now 🔥❄️
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-last-purchase-xxviii.1812245/post-31793318
Don’t want to cross post, pic in last purchase thread. The lil thing is effective like sh&%it.
5 minutes and bedroom was really hot. So winter will be fine now 🔥❄️
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/post-your-last-purchase-xxviii.1812245/post-31793318
I dislike the times the clocks change for when I work. Wonder if they will finally end it. Get off at six. For falling, it changes just as the sun gets low enough to not blind me on the way home but still twilight so I can see. And then BOOM DARK! And it's about the same for springing. Just getting light at night. If only it was shifted about a month back for both.
Always have to do the *1.8 + 32 lol. A little warmer what it was the two previous days but now headed back down to the 40s F - 32 *5/9 = ~5C
You know it was WW1 invention that should be scaled in 21st century only kids playing spring sports seem to like it! Evenn my small rural school has lights for track and baseball field1 They even have Friday night games under lights at once a year too!
What is it with horseflies?
I have been spending some time in the garden with my soft, delicious, tasty beloved.
Horse flies have been wandering around looking for a meal.
Do they to after my soft, tasty, delicious beloved?
No.
They go after hard, bad-tasting, very-not-delicious me.
I have been spending some time in the garden with my soft, delicious, tasty beloved.
Horse flies have been wandering around looking for a meal.
Do they to after my soft, tasty, delicious beloved?
No.
They go after hard, bad-tasting, very-not-delicious me.
One thing I do like about winter - far fewer bugs!
I'm completely with @Apple fanboy on this.
They're demon-spawn IMO. I got Lyme's disease (yes, Lyme's disease, complete with the bullseye rash) from what the Scottish call a 'Cleg-fly', which is like a cross between an American deer fly and a proper horsefly (they're large enough to carry off babies in the US).
So they replaced the heating plant at my work and forget to put the heat back on a timer that cuts it off at 4PM-8AM each night and completely over the weekend (I am an academic and I and my colleagues definitely don't work 9-5 as some in the University seem to imagine). I have been enjoying working without having to wear goose-down.
Wearing some now as my office has ineffective heating.
Trotted (well, strolled, and strolled slowly, at that) down to the local shop (store) for my organic milk, (and organic cream, and some nice, high fruit content, marmalade) and kept a close eye on (possibly) slippery footpaths. Although I am well layered up, I must concede that it is bloody cold; in fact, it is freezing.
Actually, I walked on the road, and bought a second litre of milk (they always keep one for me), as this cold spell means that I shall be consuming more coffee and tea than usual.
Over the week-end, (and today), on a number of occasions, I salted my own drive way, and the path outside my house so that people (myself included) and enter and exit without running the risk of slipping, falling, breaking a limb or breaking their neck.
Actually, I walked on the road, and bought a second litre of milk (they always keep one for me), as this cold spell means that I shall be consuming more coffee and tea than usual.
Over the week-end, (and today), on a number of occasions, I salted my own drive way, and the path outside my house so that people (myself included) and enter and exit without running the risk of slipping, falling, breaking a limb or breaking their neck.
And my beer (purchased last Friday) - delicious and seasonally appropriate dark winter beer, twelve bottles of St Bernardus and Trappistes Rochefort delights - was delivered (belatedly) today.
Well, instead of gnashing my teeth, I simply took the view that if I didn't have it to hand, I couldn't drink it........actually, I have just enjoyed/endured (delete as inappropriate) an unexpected dry spell (all of eight days).
Well, instead of gnashing my teeth, I simply took the view that if I didn't have it to hand, I couldn't drink it........actually, I have just enjoyed/endured (delete as inappropriate) an unexpected dry spell (all of eight days).
Everyone in my office has been sent home to work as the boiler has packed up.