Well, I have family (Demoncrat branch) that came yesterday and are staying through the day after Christmas due to the weather. Normally, they come around 2pm Christmas and stay 48 hrs. One has a cold. (’rona?) That one is hanging out with my aunt, who was in the hospital shortly after New Year’s last year with ‘rona pneumonia, supposedly. (That whole thing was weird. This is a person with a lifetime history of a below average number of colds and never even bronchitis or a sinus infection.)
I just finished my last beer.
I don’t think there is enough wine on hand to see me through. They bought champagne. I’m not a big fan.
The visitors are multi vaxxed. Aunt and I are purebloods.
It has been a while since it has been this cold this time of year. But I do remember ice storms this time of year as a kid. One year we had to cancel travel to see family.
I am glad I am working from home these days. I remember one brutal winter when I was working in downtown Columbus when it was -30 wind chill for like three weeks.
I hope the house up north doesn’t end up with a frozen pipe issue. I leave the heat at 67. S.O. might go there and let the faucets drip tomorrow if he can travel.
I have the space heater cranked up to 80 here in my room an am still cold. I hope the homeless have been rounded up and brought to shelters.
Central Ohio never really gets much snow. But it’s so gray in winter. I grew up in NJ. It wasn’t unusual to wake up to two feet of snow. But the sky would be blue within a day.
I woke up at 5am today, thinking I was late to singing on to work. It had snowed a couple inches and the street lamps were reflecting off that.
The desk where I work is at a window that faces a semi main road. I hardly saw any cars on it all day.
Wasps attempt a hide the hammer move in death battle with Pepe!
https://www.science.org/content/article/male-wasps-fend-attackers-penis-stingers
49 minutes of Vaxicide collapses.
Ashes to Ashes we all fall down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXka0oYqfHI