So we're in from our errands, which we deferred from yesterday mainly on account o' because Wally-World is a veritable ZOO on the weekends and we avoid going there on those days whenever possible. It was a toss-up, actually: fight the crowds yesterday or deal with the kinda-sorta unpleasantness that is our weather today. Obviously "dealing with the WX" won out, but now that I'm in from the cold I'm not sure that was such a wise choice.
I'm getting soft in my dotage. It's 28 degrees outside, with a wind chill of 23... which is chilly, to be sure... but it's nothing like working on the antenna deck at Fortuna AFS, NoDak in wind chills of minus-50F or slogging through waist high snow drifts to go do preventive maintenance in the equipment shelters at Wakkanai Air Station (where the annual snowfall was purported to be 220+ inches -- no shit, really.). Driving to Wally-World on dry streets in a minor chill ain't got nuthin' on venturing out to the store in either Ra-cha-cha or Dee-troit in the dead o' winter, either. Both of which we did quite regularly and with little or no complaint. Well, I might be pushin' the envelope where "no complaints" is concerned. If only jes a little bit.
Image by Dennis Cox at wackystock.com.
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