Give us grace to accept with serenity
the fact that other people’s list posts cannot be changed,
the courage to delete the posts we’d wish changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish between those worth reading
and those which should be moved, unread, to the trash.
Today is the first day in two weeks without some new frost art on my windows. Now I have a whole set of pictures, each of a completely different frost configuration.
I hate getting emails where my email program correctly identified only half of a URL as a URL, making it entirely useless unless you copy and paste into your browser. It’s one of those little things that’s just annoying. Of course, then I laugh at myself that I think it’s such a pain in the neck to have to highlight the URL, control c to copy, alt tab to my browser, click into the address bar, and control v to paste. It all takes less than 3 seconds. I mean really, is that such a hardship?
The answer seemed to be TinyURL, which makes any big honkin’ URL into a nice, tidy little URL that no email program will choke on. There’s even a nifty Firefox extension.
But here’s the catch. I’m suspicious whenever anyone sends me a link that’s a tiny URL unless I know the person who sent it to me. There was a comment added to this blog recently from someone I don’t know, and it took me a long time to get up the gumption to click the stupid thing. How was I to know that it would just lead to someone’s blog? There’s no domain name to give me a clue. It just says http://tinyurl.com/[some numbers and letters to make a unique string].
I hadn’t realized just how dependent I am on reading URLs to see what I might be getting in to. Not that they’re perfect or that they can’t lie. But at least there’s some clue.
Comments closedYesterday evening the temperature dipped below zero (F).* Today our high (of -3) occurred near midnight and it’s simply gotten colder all day. Tomorrow we’ll bounce off the bottom (at -17) and make it all the way back up to -3 by evening. I don’t see any temps above zero until next Tuesday evening! We won’t get above 10 degrees until Friday, which is so far away that I don’t think I trust that prediction.
With the breeze, this means we’re flirting with windchill temps in the -30s and -40s all weekend.
I take back what I said. This is definitely colder than the freezing point. If you walk outside with earrings on, the post sends bolts of cold through your ear lobes. Nose hairs catch condensation as you breath out and freeze into a tiny brittle net. (I’m glad I don’t have a nose ring, or a lip piercing.) Apparently you can damage your skin (due to ice crystals exploding your skin cells) if you stay outside longer than half an hour.
On the up-side, the ice crystals on my windows are beautiful, and the warnings about dangerously cold temperatures is a great excuse to stay in, curl up under fluffy blankets, and drink steaming mugs of various hot beverages.
*Celsius translations for temperatures are -17.8, -19.4, -27.2, -19.4, -17.8, and -12.2 respectively. Translations of windchill temps are also in the -30s and -40s… interesting.
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