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Heat wave
The weather continues to be odd ... According to Weather Underground, it's 0F in Fairbanks right now ... but our thermometer reads 22F, 10 miles to the north. A warm wind moved in this evening; it feels incredibly warm out there right now, even though the sky is clear.
Despite having a cold and feeling like eeegh, I got my goals for today finished (one Freebird inked, another penciled). Tomorrow's plan: ink a Freebird and clean my "studio" ... assuming I have enough energy for it. I hope it stays warm. The weather report is "meh" on that subject, but it's already considerably warmer than it was supposed to be tonight, so maybe we'll be lucky. It'll be above zero at the very least, and any day above zero is a good day in February.
I'm trying to be good and not laugh at the Lower 48 people and their "cold snap". The thing is, I *know* extreme weather is a shock when you're not used to dealing with it. Orion points out that Alaskans wouldn't handle a 110-degree heat wave any better than Ohio seems to be handling 5 degrees.
Despite having a cold and feeling like eeegh, I got my goals for today finished (one Freebird inked, another penciled). Tomorrow's plan: ink a Freebird and clean my "studio" ... assuming I have enough energy for it. I hope it stays warm. The weather report is "meh" on that subject, but it's already considerably warmer than it was supposed to be tonight, so maybe we'll be lucky. It'll be above zero at the very least, and any day above zero is a good day in February.
I'm trying to be good and not laugh at the Lower 48 people and their "cold snap". The thing is, I *know* extreme weather is a shock when you're not used to dealing with it. Orion points out that Alaskans wouldn't handle a 110-degree heat wave any better than Ohio seems to be handling 5 degrees.
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I thought you said Eegah for a second there. I was going to tell you to watch out for snakes and Richard Kiel. Now it's just snowballs. ^^
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I do feel sad for the plants, however. Daffodils have their green leaves up and I'm not sure they'll make it all the way to Spring now.
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My ex used to wear shorts all year long no matter how cold it got.
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Yes, but we all agreed that Gregg was nuts for doing that...
Orion has a student who walks barefoot to all his classes! Seriously! Brief amusing story: I mentioned this to my optometrist (in the context of another conversation) and he's like, "Oh yeah, THAT guy! I've heard of that guy!" Even in Fairbanks, walking outside barefoot in December earns you some notoriety...
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Now, not wearing shoes...
Seriously, you aren't really going to do much damage to your legs given their sheer thermal mass. But your feet and toes are another story. It's way too easy to get frostbite given their size and distance from the heart. That guy is just begging to have some toes cut off.
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When you live with the cold for a long time, it just becomes second nature. Don't go outside for a long time without two sets of pants; don't breathe deeply when it's cold; always plug in your car at night. Like Orion and I were talking about the other night, really severe cold in places that aren't used to it is like 110 degree heat in Alaska in March. You go out jogging in a sweater and then can't figure out why you feel so weird, because you just don't think about it.
I mock, but I really do understand.
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Now I need to go look up chillblain...
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(Anonymous) 2007-02-06 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)-SarahD in CA
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