Tonight I watched Orion work some really amazing headphone training mojo on the little guy, though. He'd dangle the [broken] headphones in front of the kitten, and pet him, and then when the cat would reach for the headphones, WHOMP! Then, back to petting. After a few repetitions, the cat would just stare at the headphones and not even try to bat at them. You could almost see the gears turning in his flat little head. This could actually work. I think I'll be locking up my headphones when I'm not using them for a while though.
It may or may not help to say that as far as cold goes, this is really about as bad as it gets. The subjective difference between -10 and -50 is not nearly as huge as between 30 and -10. Once it hits "damn cold" it really doesn't get worse. It's basically like humid heat: once it starts getting hot in the summer, it doesn't matter if it's 90 or 115 -- it's DAMN HOT and you stay inside with a glass of iced tea, venturing outside only after the sun goes down or else with a beach towel and bottle of suntan lotion. Cold is pretty much the same way, only in reverse. Right now, it's to the point where you have to wear a warm coat and don't really want to breathe deeply when you're outside. It doesn't get much worse even when it's -40.
However, when it DOES hit the -50 range, the weird and fun physical effects start to occur. When this happens, you will need to take a pan of warm water outside and throw it into the air to see what happens. Or, for a lark, take a balloon outside and watch what happens to it. December in Fairbanks really sucks for the balloon-bouquet industry, for sure.
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It may or may not help to say that as far as cold goes, this is really about as bad as it gets. The subjective difference between -10 and -50 is not nearly as huge as between 30 and -10. Once it hits "damn cold" it really doesn't get worse. It's basically like humid heat: once it starts getting hot in the summer, it doesn't matter if it's 90 or 115 -- it's DAMN HOT and you stay inside with a glass of iced tea, venturing outside only after the sun goes down or else with a beach towel and bottle of suntan lotion. Cold is pretty much the same way, only in reverse. Right now, it's to the point where you have to wear a warm coat and don't really want to breathe deeply when you're outside. It doesn't get much worse even when it's -40.
However, when it DOES hit the -50 range, the weird and fun physical effects start to occur. When this happens, you will need to take a pan of warm water outside and throw it into the air to see what happens. Or, for a lark, take a balloon outside and watch what happens to it. December in Fairbanks really sucks for the balloon-bouquet industry, for sure.