just for the record

[truepenny]

Negative 14 Fahrenheit is not the best time I've ever had.

Comments

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Although it's not as bad as the day they didn't cancel class when it was -20 degrees Fahrenheit.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAAT?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Such is the joy of a campus where you walk to class. "Oh," the administration says, "if you can still open the classroom door buildings, clearly we should still have class!"

last night it was -13. Today we're up to 2! Yay!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Once when I was in college in Cleveland, the administration refused to close the school despite a five-minute frostbite warning. Their excuse: "We have a compact campus."

This was true, but only if you didn't factor in the MINIMUM-TEN-MINUTE walk from the dorms to the rest of campus.

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

And here I thought -14 Celsius was cold.

Ouch.

[arkuat]

Martian temperatures! Yay!

And for something completely different, have I told you that I love your encouragement of use of large fonts? We large-font-loving people all have to do our bit to remind software designers to allow room for enlargement of fonts. I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about. Whenever I get to the comment stage on one of your posts, and see the large fonts glittering so readably onto my retina, I want to thank you, the same way I thank the snow-shovelers who are out at work clearing the sidewalks in front of their homes as I walk past them. As an urban winter pedestrian in northern latitudes, as a person with eyes that have to squint at tiny fonts, I thank you for your industrious labors!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do know exactly what you're talking about.

And I'm glad that my need for large fonts is helpful to at least one other person out there.

[libskrat]

My furnace cut out sometime last night. It's in the low 40Fs... indoors.

All I can find to say is GAH. And brrrrr.

pipes

[(Anonymous)]

Goodness Gracious, cavlec, have you emptied your water pipes? If it is 40F in the house, any pipes along the outside walls will be freezing.

Re: pipes

[libskrat]

Landlord came over with space heaters; one is under the pipes.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

OMG AIEEEEEE!

I hope there is a furnace person coming to look at it. Like now.

[libskrat]

We were "first on his list." "Between 9 and 12" turned out to be 11:48 am.

The heat was on by 1, but the entire furnace needs replacing. This will take place on Monday. In case it goes kaput again, we have been given electric radiators.

This will be one hell of a story... AFTER the new furnace is in.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ai-yi-yi.

I hope the furnace makes it to Monday, and if it doesn't, I'm glad you have an alternate source of heat.

[vidensadastra.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, wind chill warning.

[matt-betts.livejournal.com]

At least you get to count your toes every hour or so. That's fun, right?

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

You have just stated why, after three years, I was glad to leave Iowa and go to Tennessee.

I think I like James Nicoll's habit of recording winter temperatures in degrees Kelvin (). So it's 247.5 degreees K Up There where you are, and a mighty 258.7 Down Here. So we're ever so much warmer than you!

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

D:

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

I am categorically against it, myself.

(At least for non penguins!)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

And polar bears.

But, yeah. So not adapted for this!

[themadfish.livejournal.com]

I'm finding my 17 Fahrenheit to already be bad enough.

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

You could take this opportunity to throw a cup of boiling water into the outside air and watch it turn into a cloud of ice crystals, with a lovely shhhhhhs noise...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Aside from the part where I'm NEVER GOING OUTSIDE AGAIN?

I gave the feralistas hot water this morning. I hope it stayed liquid long enough that at least one of them got a drink.

true...

[themadblonde]

-19 is even less fun, but @ least the car started.