Like a camel, winter sticks its nose under the tent

[wombat_socho]

So we had our first snow last night, pitiful and snarkworthy though it was. It made me think, despite my general enthusiasm for technology of all kinds, that we should take away the Doppler radars and other bleeding-edge toys from the meteorologists and compel them to undergo mandatory retraining in the arts of haruspication, employing the huge local pigeon population as the necessary sacrifices. It would be a lot cheaper, more entertaining, and do quite a bit to clean up the city besides - and no less accurate than the present panic-mongering system, which had the National Weather Service^TM (a division of Admiral Bob's National Security, or perhaps the Central Intelligence Company) issuing a Winter Storm Watch for a lousy 4-6" of snow, which even in these sissified times isn't enough to even delay school openings for fifteen minutes. Of course by this morning, the streets were merely wet, even though the ambient temperature on the way to the Park & Ride was 19, and the snow wasn't even an inch deep on the grass.

Inside the new apartment, unlike the old apartment, I snoozed comfortably without having to endure drafts from defective windows and unsealed AC units. In fact, when I came home from work yesterday the building super had not only put covers on all the AC units, he'd fixed the toilet, whose flapper hadn't worked quite right since before my arrival. w00t!

As further proof that we're living in the best of all possible Americas (so far), frozen turkeys were on sale at the local Cub for $0.38/pound, with a $25 purchase. Talk about your loss leaders! I wound up dropping almost $50 on the bird and various other food items; once I pick up some more milk and bread, I might well be set through the end of the month.

Comments

your super has it together

[digex.livejournal.com]

your brief description of your new living situation was comfortable to
read - it communicated in one moment how bad it was, and how much
better it obviously is. Good move, that move.

weather in the DC area is typical - it is November 16 so lets have an 80
degree day - at the warehouse we simultaniously had the two discussions
going 1) do we cover or deinstall the HVAC unit for the winter, and 2) crank
that HVAC unit up because we are sweating in here something fierce. Typical.

hey droog, do you drink wine? I don't remember (when we hung I know none
of us did much - much more the jack and guiness types (yum!)) send me mail

doug

Re: your super has it together

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

weather in the DC area is typical - it is November 16 so lets have an 80
degree day -

Stop it, yer makin' me homesick. Again.

[thaadd.livejournal.com]

Wow. The turkey I'm getting from the Co-op (vegetarian fed free range, but not organic) is 1.99 a pound. It's fresh, too, no weirdness about thawing.

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

The best of all possible worlds is the fresh kosher turkey, but those are really hard to come by. I'll settle for a cheap frozen bird...after all, what you do with it is even more important than the nature of the bird itself, imho.