When I get home from work, I don't feel like doing anything. It's cold and dark and I just want to plop down on the couch and not get up. The Catican Guards go unwalked and are growing fat and lazy*. Yesterday, during our brief period of sunlight and lukewarmth, I began to wonder what life must be like in horrible places like Norway where it's always dark and cold. How do they get anything done? They must spend 24 hours plopped on the couch!
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| A frozen town in Norway. Note how nothing's moving. I think they're all dead. |
* - Actually, they're going mad from lack of exercise.
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please tell me you forgot to add the /sarc label at the end of the post.
No, I'm really thinking of learning Portuguese and at least visiting Brazil.
;-)
Norwegians drink a lot in the winter.
This has been a funny winter. On our trip out to SD for Christmas, the two warmest places were Tucson and Denver.
You don't need to learn Portuguese, just head east to Arizona for some warmth. Lots of beach, not so much on the ocean.
ROFL LMBO!
Yeah, and guess where your faithful reader is? Yours truly is sitting in Riga, Latvia at this very moment.
The Jedi Council thought it would be fun to send me to Latvia for three months, in the winter. bleh. The sun shined for a couple hours today. But yes, my inclination is to spend as much time in bed as possible. Unfortunately, my padawans don't see things that way.
Riga today: high of 37, low of 28. Sunrise around 8:00 AM, sunset around 5:20 PM. Horrible. Simply horrible.
That's nothing. A few weeks ago the highs were in the teens. This is warm by comparison.
When I lived in SD, 50 was cold to me, so I understand where you people are coming from.
Now, my 15 year old doesn't wear his winter coat. Just a hoody or his basketball warm up.
This week at school, they were having service week. Tuesday they went out in the community doing work for underprivileged. The 15 year old was out shovelling snow for a church in a bad neighborhood in St Paul. Yesterday, they had a day of chapel and a little fun time, a snow obstacle course. Some of the boys were doing it shirtless.
Some Denver people were at work on Monday saying it was pretty cold. It was 27. That was about 30 degrees warmer than the high 2 weeks ago.
The cold is now past for us now. Still we can expect another couple feet of snow.
Surely the MG will come out soon. :-)
In all seriousness, I don't think it's the cold so much as the dark.
well, there's always the mirror project:
http://www.visitnorway.com/en/Product/?pid=30978
"Rjukan is a town surrounded by mountains which prevent the sun from reaching the floor of the walley for five months of the year."
Dang. Get me out of there, now!
Goodness! If a temperature in the 50s is "freezing cold", you'd be advised to stay out of Ohio.
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