Yeah,
sure it's cold. It was minus nine this morning when we were driving
about on the frozen streets. As you might know it almost hit minus
30 last week. And we have snow too. A beautiful blizzard swept through
The Twin Cities yesterday, all charming fat snowflakes for those of us
watching inside, but a bit more grim for the folks trying to get around
on their usual business. A full eight inches of snow they say.
But I just want to note this is nothing
compared to when I was a kid. And I know it's a bit of a cliche to get a
bit older and opine about how much tougher we had it, but that doesn't
mean I should forsake the truth. That doesn't mean I shouldn't call them
as I see them. That doesn't mean that it really wasn't, way back then, a
time of but a few, crappy TV stations, inferior Juvenile literature
options, and vastly more cruel weather!
And
it's not just that the weather was worse. Do you know how many days
the schools closed over weather here over the past couple of weeks?
Neither do I, and it's too boring to look up on the Internet, but it was
at least three days. Three days, possibly even four! Do you know
how many weather related school closure days I experienced in my
miserable 12 year run in public schools?
Two!
Two!
I had a total of two days off because of weather in the course of 12 years of crappy, elementary education!
And
while I am grudgingly willing to acknowledge it never got colder than
48 degrees during the course of my schooling in Southern California, I
cannot begin to express how chilly that can feel in the terrible, low
quality windbreakers a person could acquire back in the seventies.
So my advice to everyone here is to just put on a quality hat, toughen up, and head on outside to freeze to death. Literally freeze to death.
The planet is doomed anyway.
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