This morning, I woke up shivering under my down blanket.
I thought to myself, "Maybe southern California wasn't so bad after all."
Why in the world is it so cold in Atlanta? After I mummified myself in my blanket, I spring-hopped over to my computer to see what the temperature was.
15 degrees.
For you northerners, I'm sure you're laughing so hard that you're about to pee your pants. But in our defense, as someone who has never lived in a state that didn't border Mexico (is it fair to count Florida as Mexico?), 15 degrees is absurd. It didn't even get this cold when I was in Beijing in the dead of winter last year. I'm surprised the entire Bible belt didn't shut down from sheer panic. I can already see ministers standing on soap boxes on street corners reading passages out of Revelation and urging repentance.
Anyhow, being as absurdly cheap as I am sometimes, I refused to turn on the heat in my apartment, rationalizing to myself that two big blankets was sufficient to keep toucans comfortable in the Arctic. I watched the thermometer in my apartment drop to about 60 last night and went hibernating.
The thermometer read 54 this morning. I should really be less cheap, for the sake of my own health.
And I'm starving. I thought about ducking out of work this morning to go find something to eat, but it's still sub-20 temps right now. Sigh.
Baby, it's cold outside...in the south.
January 3rd, 2008 at 02:21 pm
January 3rd, 2008 at 02:28 pm 1199370507
January 3rd, 2008 at 02:49 pm 1199371770
January 3rd, 2008 at 02:56 pm 1199372175
I am one of those northerns laughing. I had to wait for my train this morning outside. It was only 7 degrees with a nice wind.
The train of course was a little late.
Even my garage was 34 degrees this morning.
Try to stay warm and don't lick any metal poles (or your tongue will freeze to it).
January 3rd, 2008 at 03:08 pm 1199372926
January 3rd, 2008 at 03:09 pm 1199372973
January 3rd, 2008 at 03:41 pm 1199374896
January 3rd, 2008 at 03:48 pm 1199375290
January 3rd, 2008 at 04:32 pm 1199377973
It was 27 this AM in our part of N Texas, according to the bank sign. Chilly.
We have the automatic programmable thermostat set to keep the house bearable at different times of the day. Best $40 bucks we ever spent, that programmable thermostat.
January 3rd, 2008 at 04:38 pm 1199378311
January 3rd, 2008 at 05:41 pm 1199382113
Its 14 degrees here in Ohio at noon today. Fortunately its supposed to warm up to like 34 for friday. That will feel like a heatwave in comparison.
January 3rd, 2008 at 07:19 pm 1199387983
January 4th, 2008 at 04:44 am 1199421878
My sister would laugh, if she knew about us all here. 15F in Wisconsin is open coat weather.