In article <[email hidden]>,
The Wogster said:[email hidden] wrote:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:First real snowstorm of the year here (real defined as it's staying on
the ground), probably about 2-3 cm. Just enough to make one cautious.
However the temperature was mild (-1C or about -8C with the windchill)
so it was not too bad.
Time to order those studded tires from Finland for the MTB, and put the
road bike into hibernation.... I saw, about an hour ago, just as I was
leaving work, an old duffer on an fully fendered upright bike, pootering
along in the blowing snow. He was actually going at a fair clip.....
That's hardly surprising. One nice thing about biking and walking is that
NOTHING slows you down. (Well, except waiting for traffic. My walk to
school this morning took about two or three minutes longer than usual,
which is (not coincidentally) about the time I spent waiting to cross
streets that normally have a short-enough-to-not-notice wait time.)
Quoted message said:EC is forcasting 13C by Monday, so the snow will all go away again,
which IMHO is a good thing.
Yeah, but that's not until Monday (and it's supposed to come along with
rain). 'Round here we're already at -20C with the windchill, and the
pre-windchill temperature is supposed to drop another 3-4 degrees tonight.
Perfect weather to take the day off work tomorrow to go wander around
on the Toronto waterfront before winter sets in (why let weather get in
the way of a mental health day?).
Quoted message said:This time of year, I wish I had a rich
uncle in the West Indies who needed someone to watch his beach house....
I did a co-op work term working for somebody who claimed one goal for
the business was to open a branch office in Australia. Of course he'd
need to spend half the year there overseeing their operations, and it
should be easy enough to guess which half he was thinking of...
I think I'd prefer somewhere as non-maritime as possible, even if I would
have to find something other than meditating near large bodies of water to
do for mental health days. As long as the humidity stays low all year,
I don't care what the temperature does. (Which means I'm definitely in
the wrong climate right now.)
dave
(once heard rumours that Canadians talk about weather more than anybody else)
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refuse to speak like Dubya does.
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