The temperature crawled slowly up from -4 F (at 6 am this morning) all the way to 20 F by 10 pm tonight. Will this be the coldest week in all of winter?
We can only hope.
School has been closed since Monday. We've been goofing off in the house all week, getting a few chores done and eating up all our food supplies.
I've been sick since Friday evening, sucking down medicines for cough and headache. Waking up every morning with a sore throat and a lengthy list of Things To Do that just keeps getting longer as I lack the energy to get around to them all.
Luckily for me, there's YouTube, the Balmy of the Slovenly Guilty. Oooh, look! Another episode of my favorite channel, Dry Bar! There's another twenty minutes of my life gone... but at least it was funny.
If this keeps up, those of us who rely on automobiles for our daily commute might have the entire week as "extra" holiday time -- although we'll surely pay for it when spring rolls around and there are still lessons to be taught and students to annoy.
For those of us on the Remote Employment plan, it's just another week asleep at the wheel, lost in the nether regions of the internet, drifting through Time and Space trying to remember which Zone we're in so we don't accidentally miss that 11 o'clock [12 o'clock? 1 o'clock? 2 o'clock?] meeting we're supposed to be hosting.
But the Thermal Prognisticators are predicting that the roads will be clear enough to drive tomorrow, the winds will be slow enough to avoid frostbite on the faces of the children as they walk to school, and everything will be Back To Normal.
It's so pretty outside. It's too bad I'll be up and out the door at 5 am to shovel it so everyone else can get out of the driveway while I stay warm and dry snuggled up next to my dozen-or-so computers in my office.
No one will notice if I drift off now and then to dream of electric sheep...
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