I'd much rather deal with frigid, sub-zero weather than extreme heat. I have the right clothes, the necessary attitude, for cold. The same cannot be said for heat, I just tend to wither and slump. Wouldn't want either endlessly.
Although the season of people putting 'snow' on their sites I can live without, although it does cut down my reading list. I can't stand anything moving around on a screen while I'm reading, ads or flashy lights or autoplay gifs. The snow effect just makes me think of old tv sets that can't get a clear signal.
Ah, the old days of vacuum tubes and getting the Sandusky station late at night, just to catch some of the original Hitchhikers' Guide tv series, sort of. Hissing and snowy, sometimes cutting out completely. My, my, the technology. Not like today, when we download series and show them on the screen and nothing ever goes wrong, like stopping altogether or getting the sound out of synch... . Ahem. Or when people intentionally add annoyance, of course. As one family member "enhances" all his photos on the oogle+. They squirm and spatter all over. At least I have a mute button there.
Covered lunches today, since they were already one short, then had a sick-call. Got me moving, which is good some days. Not feeling so hot myself, starting last night. After running about for a couple of hours today, I am a little better, if not entirely well. Sore inside my nose, which sucks, mouth raw, congested. Weird discomforts, don't know what's going on. Or going 'round, more like.
I can't imagine what it would be like, walking on ice for the first time ever, since I can no more remember than the first time I took any steps, ever. February in Michigan would have provided plenty of opportunity to my wobbly babby legs to meet ice, no doubt encased in hard shoes covered by rubber boots. Snowsuit, mittens, hat assumed.
Oh, and I did this.
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oh, thank goodness. for a minute i was worried you were going to stop visiting me, because i plan to change my background over to its traditional winter background.
no falling flaske, i promise. just the same snow i use every year from the time the snow falls here until leaf out.
flask,
No, not photos of snow. Certainly not yours. It's that animated snow that falls across the page, starts slow, builds up, can't be stopped. I've seen it three times this year. There was a blogger long ago who LOVED it, and did variations on it for other holidays. Been so long since I went there, I can't even remember which blog it was. Made me a bit nauseated.
We've had up and down; going from -8C to +4C to -12C to +5C. Each day different with rain and snow in the mix which is all today mostly ice as today is a -9C day.
Thanks for the chart, I was pretty sure I knew what you did, but didn't know the proportions.
Phil,
Well, this is based on general guesswork, not data from an actual time&motion study.
Goggle+ sometimes does stuff like that to my photos unasked. I don't really even want to be on it, they just nabbed me one way or another. Sometimes it's useful.
French bloggers I know, who seem to exist in a somewhat different universe to the rest of us, are frequently addicted to horrible little twee dancing gif cartoon things, I wish they wouldn't, awful things.
Lucy,
re: Google+, I've managed to shut that off in preferences, but it took a bit of fiddling.
Oh, gifs, ugh.
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