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34 thoughts on “February 20, 2023: Windy, Blowy, Snowy”
The boys have today off for Presidents Day and tomorrow off for Tibetan New Year. If Wednesday and Thursday are snow days, I will cry.
my son is off all week for "mid-winter" break!
They just should have called it carnival break.
My kids have never had a snow day, or any kind of weather-related school cancelation at all. Being in Minnesota this year, they are very excited at the prospects of getting a snow day this week.
I have this book of quotes I have been maintaining all my life. Just ran into this one:
"There are worse ways to go than to slip into a brisket coma." BrianS
yes. i have quotes but also math formulas. maybe i'll post it here sometime.
Some random snippets:
They smell you breath, lest you might have said I love you.
They smell your heart.
These are strange times, my darling.
The butchers are stationed at each crossroads with bloody clubs and cleavers.
--Ahmad Shamlou
They sank me into the ocean
Wishing me to remain in the depths.
I became a deep sea diver
And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
Nguyen Chi Thien
Tengo que get el fuck out of aqui.
Against the Day - T. Pynchon
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die Soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960. (From a Toronto bus poster).
When the tides of life turn against you,
and the current upsets your boat.
Don't waste those tears on what might have been,
just lay on your back and float.
Ed Norton, Honeymooners
I've been able to recite that Gwendolyn Brooks poem since high school.
Brooks is amazing. Her verse blew me away the first time I encountered it, to the point that the weight of the book in my hands is a lingering memory.
As a kid I had a blank note pad that had a cover titled "A Multi-Volume Dissertation on Everything"
Ignatious?!?
Closer to Ignoramus, really.
I stole/paraphrased the title for my webpage subtitle: A Multi-Volume Dissertation on Nothing
I had something of the sort that I started in high school and kept through college, sadly it's long lost. But a couple of years ago I found an old spiral notebook that was a trip log we kept on a cross-country spring break expedition to San Francisco back in the early 80s. There were five of us, we drove my hand-me-down '73 Dodge station wagon, and we all took turns writing in the logbook. It was right trippy fun to read after all these years, flashback city.
I resemble that remark!
I was good and sick for the last big snowstorm and didn't get the driveaway cleared so it got all packed down by driving over it, then we got a full day of steady rain (that flooded my basement because ice dams) which froze solid the next day. This weekend I used 100 lbs. of ice melt and a sharpened garden spade to chop and scrape three inches of glacier off the top half of the driveway; the bottom half is still a Red Bull crashed ice course. I had to stop there because Menards, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Fleet Farm are now all out of ice melt. Winter at this latitude sucks.
My driveway was good, then we had a lot of wind and a drift formed 5 feet from the garage door. Then it froze mostly solid. I've been able to drive over it, but have been unable to clear it (and haven't had time for extraordinary efforts, as you describe).
With the new snow and wind coming in... my plan is to stock up at the grocery store tonight, not drive anywhere, and wait for my father-in-law to clear us out with the skidsteer on Friday. I hope.
I mentioned white-knuckle driving to your neck of the woods a month or so ago. Well, I was going to drive to Springfield on Wednesday to meet the folks from Redwood Falls, but I just called that one off. We'll try again in March.
The roads have actually been respectable around here for a while. I have to hand it to the road crews - they haven't stopped working all winter.
And it doesn't look like they will anytime soon.
I remember snow. We even got some on Thursday! Its all gone now, but it was there.
Good title. You don't want to challenge the reader too much right off the bat.
I just checked the weather, and I'm very glad I won't be in Northfield this week.
It's not looking great here either. 90% chance of rain on Wednesday.
westbrook to the clippers
love to the heat
patbev to the bulls?
eh, sure, why not?
With a little more effort, this could've been a haiku.
westbrook to clippers
love is going to the heat
patbev is a bull
The Gophers have retaken the #1 spot in the national collegiate hockey rankings this week after sweeping Penn State on the road. Quinnipiac beat Yale and Brown at home and still have the better record but slipped to #2 in both polls. Denver and Michigan maintained their positions at #3 and #4, respectively. Western Michigan jumped three spots to land at #5, and my Huskies have racked up only a loss and three ties in their last four games yet managed to keep their #6 ranking this week. Two weekends left before tournaments start, there's going to be some serious jockeying for position.
The boys have today off for Presidents Day and tomorrow off for Tibetan New Year. If Wednesday and Thursday are snow days, I will cry.
my son is off all week for "mid-winter" break!
They just should have called it carnival break.
My kids have never had a snow day, or any kind of weather-related school cancelation at all. Being in Minnesota this year, they are very excited at the prospects of getting a snow day this week.
I have this book of quotes I have been maintaining all my life. Just ran into this one:
"There are worse ways to go than to slip into a brisket coma." BrianS
Is this something like a commonplace book, NBB?
yes. i have quotes but also math formulas. maybe i'll post it here sometime.
Some random snippets:
They smell you breath, lest you might have said I love you.
They smell your heart.
These are strange times, my darling.
The butchers are stationed at each crossroads with bloody clubs and cleavers.
--Ahmad Shamlou
They sank me into the ocean
Wishing me to remain in the depths.
I became a deep sea diver
And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
Nguyen Chi Thien
Tengo que get el fuck out of aqui.
Against the Day - T. Pynchon
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die Soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960. (From a Toronto bus poster).
When the tides of life turn against you,
and the current upsets your boat.
Don't waste those tears on what might have been,
just lay on your back and float.
Ed Norton, Honeymooners
I've been able to recite that Gwendolyn Brooks poem since high school.
Brooks is amazing. Her verse blew me away the first time I encountered it, to the point that the weight of the book in my hands is a lingering memory.
Brooks is amazing.
DG would agree.
DG would humbly agree.
Recommend!
T.S. Eliot
All time is unredeemable.
Wow.
As a kid I had a blank note pad that had a cover titled "A Multi-Volume Dissertation on Everything"
Ignatious?!?
Closer to Ignoramus, really.
I stole/paraphrased the title for my webpage subtitle: A Multi-Volume Dissertation on Nothing
I had something of the sort that I started in high school and kept through college, sadly it's long lost. But a couple of years ago I found an old spiral notebook that was a trip log we kept on a cross-country spring break expedition to San Francisco back in the early 80s. There were five of us, we drove my hand-me-down '73 Dodge station wagon, and we all took turns writing in the logbook. It was right trippy fun to read after all these years, flashback city.
I resemble that remark!
I was good and sick for the last big snowstorm and didn't get the driveaway cleared so it got all packed down by driving over it, then we got a full day of steady rain (that flooded my basement because ice dams) which froze solid the next day. This weekend I used 100 lbs. of ice melt and a sharpened garden spade to chop and scrape three inches of glacier off the top half of the driveway; the bottom half is still a Red Bull crashed ice course. I had to stop there because Menards, Home Depot, Lowe's, and Fleet Farm are now all out of ice melt. Winter at this latitude sucks.
My driveway was good, then we had a lot of wind and a drift formed 5 feet from the garage door. Then it froze mostly solid. I've been able to drive over it, but have been unable to clear it (and haven't had time for extraordinary efforts, as you describe).
With the new snow and wind coming in... my plan is to stock up at the grocery store tonight, not drive anywhere, and wait for my father-in-law to clear us out with the skidsteer on Friday. I hope.
I mentioned white-knuckle driving to your neck of the woods a month or so ago. Well, I was going to drive to Springfield on Wednesday to meet the folks from Redwood Falls, but I just called that one off. We'll try again in March.
The roads have actually been respectable around here for a while. I have to hand it to the road crews - they haven't stopped working all winter.
And it doesn't look like they will anytime soon.
I remember snow. We even got some on Thursday! Its all gone now, but it was there.
huh.
Good title. You don't want to challenge the reader too much right off the bat.
I just checked the weather, and I'm very glad I won't be in Northfield this week.
It's not looking great here either. 90% chance of rain on Wednesday.
westbrook to the clippers
love to the heat
patbev to the bulls?
eh, sure, why not?
With a little more effort, this could've been a haiku.
westbrook to clippers
love is going to the heat
patbev is a bull
The Gophers have retaken the #1 spot in the national collegiate hockey rankings this week after sweeping Penn State on the road. Quinnipiac beat Yale and Brown at home and still have the better record but slipped to #2 in both polls. Denver and Michigan maintained their positions at #3 and #4, respectively. Western Michigan jumped three spots to land at #5, and my Huskies have racked up only a loss and three ties in their last four games yet managed to keep their #6 ranking this week. Two weekends left before tournaments start, there's going to be some serious jockeying for position.
hockeying for position?