the reason they laugh
Nov. 28th, 2006 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisOk, so yes, in a place where snow is rare, the systems for dealing with it are pitiful so even a few flakes can paralyze. I grew up in such a place (Winston-Salem, NC) and Seattle is the same. And the folks from Chicago and Minnesota and Wisconsin and Maine just chortle up a storm. Our cars are not equipped, our road crews are not equipped, we are not equipped so the best money is to just stay home and stay safe and let the laughers laugh.
But... I just had a phone meeting canceled on account of snow. It was a conference call. Er, ah... ok, now everyone can laugh. ????
It is cold outside - outside on the terrace and outside in the hallway. One of the up sides of living in a box o' condos is heat sharing. My living room ceiling is the terrace of my upstairs neighbors (so not heated) but the rest of my walls all have heated spaced on the other sides. And I'm very comfortable. I do have baseboard space heaters but I've never actually used them except once. My friend, John, made me turn them on one Christmas cause he was cold. Weenie. But that was about 10 years ago. The only time the cold bothers me is when my hands get chilled but when that happens, I just run hot water over them for a bit and they perk right up again. Otherwise I add clothes. Thicker socks, another shirt... it's so much easier to fight cold than hot!
It may well be a quiet day here. Another way to ward off the chill is to get up and move so I think I might fill in some of the quiet time with a little desk cleaning up and maybe some general tidying of other things around the house.
But... I just had a phone meeting canceled on account of snow. It was a conference call. Er, ah... ok, now everyone can laugh. ????
It is cold outside - outside on the terrace and outside in the hallway. One of the up sides of living in a box o' condos is heat sharing. My living room ceiling is the terrace of my upstairs neighbors (so not heated) but the rest of my walls all have heated spaced on the other sides. And I'm very comfortable. I do have baseboard space heaters but I've never actually used them except once. My friend, John, made me turn them on one Christmas cause he was cold. Weenie. But that was about 10 years ago. The only time the cold bothers me is when my hands get chilled but when that happens, I just run hot water over them for a bit and they perk right up again. Otherwise I add clothes. Thicker socks, another shirt... it's so much easier to fight cold than hot!
It may well be a quiet day here. Another way to ward off the chill is to get up and move so I think I might fill in some of the quiet time with a little desk cleaning up and maybe some general tidying of other things around the house.
