City called a snow emergency so I'm up quite early warming up the truck and moving it to a night plow route aka around the corner in front of the DQ.
Basement is flooded. I had it cleared up but it was only the laundry sink backing up before and now it's that and the kitchen sink. Copious amounts of boiling water have not helped the situation, time for a call to the Mario Bros.
Good morning. Just learned that our church choir has been shut down until at least February. That will alter my wife's life and therefore mine. Live services will continue for now but I suspect that'll change.
It's probably mid-30s out but it's too dark to check. Zoom social event ahead and then a grocery run. Enjoy your day.
That sucks Marty. -20 now but sunny. Looking like -30+ wind chills later today and worse tonight and tomorrow.
We canceled our wine bar gig tonight and an out of town job tomorrow. One of our players has to drive from the cities and I think we’d be playing to empty houses in both places.
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“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
I'm fighting intermittent episodes of fatigue that I think are post-COVID issues. I'll just lose all of my energy all of a sudden for an hour or two, but then it resolves. Weird stuff.
Clinic goes on.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
Today, like yesterday the dogs were out as the sun rose, sun dogs that is. Sometime today I need to make a trip to Center Point, other than that it's going to be an inside day.
Today, like yesterday the dogs were out as the sun rose, sun dogs that is. Sometime today I need to make a trip to Center Point, other than that it's going to be an inside day.
Took this a few days ago. Thought it was an alien spacecraft departing earth but someone later told me it was a sun dog.
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
Earlier this morning I sent an email to my choir director telling him that I won't be participating when rehearsals resume next week. I felt a twinge of guilt because we have been so small in number that it's barely a choir. But I didn't come to this decision lightly. I think that just my upcoming very long series of dental appointments, various other appointments for me and Mr. H and other necessary mingling with outsiders (i.e. outside our household) will be enough risk for a while.
We will be getting takeout from a Korean restaurant tonight and I have a dental appointment this afternoon.
Also dragging this morning. Got my second shingles shot yesterday and spent a couple of hours snowblowing - cleared a couple of neighbors' driveways so they could make it to their garages after work. Late at night I started feeling chills and light-headedness - I think it was a reaction to the shingles vaccine. Ended up on the couch under a mound of blankets. One miserable night is a small price to pay to avoid the nightmare of shingles.
Feeling more or less normal this morning. As soon as Dawn is done with the regular Thursday morning Zoom meeting I will head back out with the snowblower to clear the additional 4" we got overnight.
I was incorrect in a post a couple of days ago when I stated that we wouldn't get enough snow to go cross-country skiing. We have about a foot on the ground, I might attempt skiing tomorrow.
Today, like yesterday the dogs were out as the sun rose, sun dogs that is. Sometime today I need to make a trip to Center Point, other than that it's going to be an inside day.
Took this a few days ago. Thought it was an alien spacecraft departing earth but someone later told me it was a sun dog.
Not a sun dog. Those are called light pillars or sun pillars. They happen in very cold weather. We have seen them in below zero weather in the Chicago area.