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[Choop]

I am... in Northwest Ohio with my relatives

[Arachno-capitalist]

I had to fly into Akron a couple times for work. because I'm young young and no one senior wants to go there. The only worst place is Dallas. If you get sent to a securities office in Dallas it is because you did something wrong.

[theinevitable]

I don't know how much snow there is outside, but it is a fuck*ng shitshow. It took me almost an hour to get home from work. It usually takes 15 minutes. About 15 minutes of that was getting stuck and not being able to figure out how to get unstuck. Nobody else showed up for work so I ran around like an asshole all day. I didn't realize I could just call my job and say "hey it's snowing, sorry, can't come."

Really though, I dug out the snow around my tires, I rocked the car back and forth, I even did the thing where I put the car floormat under one tire to add traction. No dice.

Good news:
-I just bought a bunch of cold weather stuff. Sweaters, thick socks, smartwool baselayers. Awesome
-no work tomorrow
-yesterday I made this bomb-ass (in both senses) chicken chili verde with cornbread.
-probably soon I'll find out I got into school in California, right? Right?

[pmcd9]

That sounds rough. Try to stay warm.

[wombat]

-probably soon I'll find out I got into school in California, right? Right?

Weren't you just bemoaning missing the deadline for a school in Chicago? Maybe that wasn't such a bad thing after all.

[AugustWest]

Yesterday at 4 pm: 55 degrees
This morning at 8 am:  -2

Nice.

[ianmalcolm2]

Eastern Canada is a place, dudes.

We got over 50cm of snow during the Christmas break alone, an ice storm that snapped every birch tree in a fifty-mile radius of my town and gave 20 000 people week-long power outages, and it also hit -40 with wind chill a couple nights ago.

It's currently raining outside. Suffice it to say I'm happy not to be a car owner this time of year.

[dejavroom]

Thermal sensation 127º Fahrenheit (baseline temperature was 107) the last two days down here. I spent the holidays (5 days in a row) laying prostrate on the tile floor in my apartment (I live in the 11th floor) , not daring to acknowledge reality, wanting to cry but not daring to waste the liquids. 5 days when I could only go outside after 6pm, when it got tolerable. Blinding hard light threatening to hammer my eyes in all day from behind the curtains, the quiet hum of things baking. Thank God Rio is only this unreasonable some 2, 3 months a year, then it just gets normal, beastly hot. I wouldn't be able to survive.

[theinevitable]

I didn't know the heat numbers even went that high. Damnn.
In 2012 here it was in the 110's for a few weeks and people were dropping like flies.

[pmcd9]

I guess I don't have a dog in this hunt. I'm super cold right now because my house is old and drafty and my heater is inadequate, but it's above freezing and I'll be fine if I just put on another layer.

[jaydub]

In other California weather news, its been something like 30 days since we got a measurable amount of rain, and over 60 since more than 1/2" fell.  There's been a grand total of 1.2" since the end of August.  I expect the whole state will burn down, then blow away in the hot wind.  In fact there are 2 wild fires burning right now, at 350 and 500 acres in size.

[theinevitable]

Whenever I am trying to do something physically difficult and struggling, I hear ash in my head laughing at me. Today it was trying to dig my car out of the snow for the fourth day in a row. It gets worse and more frustrating every day.

It is incredible how little snow it takes to stop a car in its tracks. I also feel like this snow is destroying my car. This plastic panel on the bottom of the car came loose and is dragging along the ground when I drive. The "low tire pressure" light is on. The interior is covered in dirt/ice remnants from my boots/shovel/scraper. All floor mats destroyed. [in before "the snow isn't destroying your car, you are getting frustrated and destroying the car on your own"]

[Choop]

maaaan, FUUUCK YOU, BRAIN ASH

if i let brain ash dictate everything i did, i'd have broken so many bones and ripped so many tendons i'd be basically like a quadriplege by now.

a commercial just now came on the teevee where this wife wakes up her husband in the middle of the night to kick him out of bed for snoring. this ad is so goddamned sexist i can't stand it. look, if you can't sleep next to somebody who snores, YOU get the fuck up and go to the couch. DON'T wake up a person who is SO in NEED of SLEEP and kick THEM out of BED. JESUS.

(idk bout y'all but our couch is so comfy that dinner guests fall asleep sitting up in it) (it's really easy to sleep in) (but it's no bed) (which is marginally less comfy than the couch) (even though it's a memory foam mattress) (but srs its a comfy-ass couch we got)

[AugustWest]

Brain ash?  Isn't that the stuff that comes out of my ears the morning after I drop acid?

[jay-ell]

Yeah, I mean. I have a brain Ash. But my brain Ash is like that one friend who will tell you when your ass looks big in those jeans. Except for fitness and home repairs, instead of fashion.

My brain Ash is like, "you know what, most people would just say 'fuck it' and call a plumber. But do you want to be most people? DO YOU?!? You're better than this."