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[linnea]

back to the weather... Lennybruce is interfering with this post, and I've just had some awful dental work done. Dammit, my mouth hurts. This sucks. Being in the dentists chair for 2 hours sucks. I'm getting a crown on one of my teeth and some fillings. Bah.

Anyway, it's bitterly cold here and I bet we'll be getting yet another storm. Ahhh, winter in Alaska. Just what I bargained for. 

[side_show]

Oh man, last night we went out to get some tasty gyros and when we came back both the front and back doors had seized up so bad the keys wouldn't even go in to the locks.  It was so scary cold that after about 60 minutes of fiddling I could feel the frostbite taking over my toes, my SO had broken off part of his key in the front door, and we had to go to the 7-11 to warm up.  We fiddled a little more, with no luck with the light by the door burnt out and the exterior plug powered off due to mother-fuck*ng-timer being off. I was suddenly able to think straight and we borrowed our neighbour's hair dryer and an extension cord to melt things down and get inside.  We've been pumping the doors full of non-liquid lock de-icer (Jig-a-Loo) but it only keeps things working for about 12 hrs, then it all seizes up again.  Fuck you winter.  Fuck you.

[wombat]

We're not actually having any winter here right now, but I do feel your pain.

[theinevitable]

yeah. In charlotte it was in the 60-70's.

Right now it is "light snow"ing in St Louis.

[Nabubrush]

Wombat, that absolutely rocks!

[linnea]

Oh man, last night we went out to get some tasty gyros and when we came back both the front and back doors had seized up so bad the keys wouldn't even go in to the locks.  It was so scary cold that after about 60 minutes of fiddling I could feel the frostbite taking over my toes, my SO had broken off part of his key in the front door, and we had to go to the 7-11 to warm up.  We fiddled a little more, with no luck with the light by the door burnt out and the exterior plug powered off due to mother-fuck*ng-timer being off. I was suddenly able to think straight and we borrowed our neighbour's hair dryer and an extension cord to melt things down and get inside.  We've been pumping the doors full of non-liquid lock de-icer (Jig-a-Loo) but it only keeps things working for about 12 hrs, then it all seizes up again.  Fuck you winter.  Fuck you.

AAAAUUUGH! This has happened to me so many times that it's not funny. My door faces the bay, so I get freezing-ass wind that comes screaming off the ocean and sprays water into my lock, which freezes shut.

I keep a mini canister of de-icer in my coat pocket. After I dried the lock with a hair dryer and wiped it dry with a towel, I covered the door handle and lock with a sheet of bubble wrap and secure it with a rubber band. This keeps the blowing sea air and ice from getting inside. It keeps the lock dry.

The best solution would be to get a storm door to cover your front door. If that's impossible or impractical, try covering the lock. I haven't had to deal with a lock filled with ice since I devised my covering concept.

Wombat...did you make that snow sculpture? That's rad.

[wombat]

I am afraid that I am not so clever - that that snow sculpture photo is something I found on the internet last winter. I feel terrible that I don't even know who did it.

However, I feel GREAT that we haven't had enough snow to make a sculpture like that in more years than I can remember.  And it was in the mid 60s today.  I am sorry but, this whole global-warming planet-destruction thing really rocks.

[Limmo]

Everybody else is in five layers. I must look like a tourist.

You fuck*ng tourist, you.

[pmcd9]

Here's one for you Limmo

[side_show]

Here's one for you Limmo

what the hell?

The term "lechery" comes to mind.