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I have icicles on my car

It's cold in the bowels of Connecticut lately, actually, it's very cold. Three degrees right now (that's not Celsius) and wind-chill of a negative value.I don't like cold weather, technically I don't like hot weather either, but I definitely do not like cold weather. In fact it's so cold I'm sitting under a warm blanket with a warm powerbook in my lap, surrounded by warm cats and refuse to stick my nose outside the nicely-heated indoors. Why bother? I can complain about cold inside.

I was talking with Karl earlier and we both concluded that we hate people who live in the warm climates.. Not all of them, just the ones who make sure we know it's warm where they are while we're freezing our asses off on the eastern seaboard. Here, imagine a big, ascii middle finger.

Posted by kasia on January 9, 2004 09:37 PM |

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-9 here now, heading for -14. Unholy.

Posted by: Karl Bode | January 9, 2004 09:49 PM

Heh, I went to high school in Wisconsin when it hit -30F. I think I've earned my time in a warm climate.


Posted by: Matt | January 9, 2004 10:05 PM

Yeah it's cold. It's -25 Celcius (-13F) here in Montreal right now. -32 C (-25 F) if you count the wind factor. Not a time to sleep outside.

Posted by: Mario Spina | January 9, 2004 10:07 PM

I guess anybody with no good sense to live where it's nice would be resentful of those of us who have that good sense :-)

Posted by: Steve Friedl | January 9, 2004 11:21 PM

According to m'blog its 0F and -15F w/WC and I'm further south than kasia. Bah. Even Seattle rain would be better than this.

Posted by: Randy | January 9, 2004 11:32 PM

Icicles! I'd KILL for icicles! 30+ (Celsius) here, and it's AWFUL!

Posted by: Robert Hook | January 10, 2004 12:24 AM

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=88001

39F/4C right now. Pretty cold for this city at least.

Posted by: fluffy | January 10, 2004 01:26 AM

Just a little colder up here in MA, -1 right now. I started pulling on stuff to go get coffee and looked at the temp and decided that I would be insane to go out in this weather so am making some at home.
Why can't there be delivery service for these kinda things???

Posted by: gregory | January 10, 2004 09:56 AM

It was 5 degrees when I got home last night. It's crept up to about 8 now.

By the way, that ASCII middle finger you want is 132 = 0010000100 (for those of us who count binary on our fingers).

Posted by: Paul | January 10, 2004 11:27 AM

It's 32 out there (and 30 in here), and this is not Farenheit. I'll gladly trade you any time.

Posted by: Wilson | January 10, 2004 12:24 PM

I lived through winters in Buffalo and Chicago and have been to the Middle East in the summer.

Personally, I'd prefer Connecticut. When the power's out, it's easier to sleep in a cold room than it is a hot one.

Note to all: Put warm socks on Kasia's wish list for next Christmas.

Posted by: joat | January 10, 2004 12:36 PM

I'm with Jeremy and Steve on this one ;)

Posted by: david | January 10, 2004 07:37 PM

Hmmmm.... I normally live in London where it's mild and grey, I'm now in NC where it's nippy - but not as cold as Connecticut, and I've lived in Hong Kong where it's just darn right hot and humid!! I prefer the hot - there's always the shade, the pool and the AC!

Posted by: Ant | January 10, 2004 09:55 PM

There was frost on the door hinges this morning...Eek...

Posted by: Techie2000 | January 11, 2004 12:11 AM

kasia, you will find that Dan is a much more annoying ass than Jeremy is when it comes to this cold weather bullshit...

Posted by: brandt | January 14, 2004 11:51 AM

just surfed in...great work

Posted by: hanni | January 15, 2004 04:29 AM

Brandt's right. Though I don't do it so much anymore, having been here a while now. But that first winter I lived in NC after moving from NW Ohio...well, I was pretty much sending comparative weather reports every few hours. Being freed from a quarter century of frozen snot had me bubbling with excitement.

I think I'll have lunch out on the patio today. It's only in the low 50s, but the sun is nice and warm.

Posted by: Toasty Dan Isaacs | January 16, 2004 12:42 PM

its so cold over here too...:( i need a holiday

Posted by: Harrod G | January 19, 2004 06:14 AM