I hate the weather

[conuly]

That is all.

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Comments

[zyzyly]

That pencil factory photoessay is fascinating, and yes, that first image!

[conuly]

It's just so perfect. I could look at that pic all day.

[jesse_the_k]

I cannot click on the Medicaid work-requirement link because steam is coming out of my ears.

[conuly]

You use ears to click links?

[jesse_the_k]

:p

[zesty_pinto]

The weather I was stuck in was transitional. God. Damned. Transitional. I left a car when it was raining, slept as the rain began to froze, and then crusted with snow like some kind of diabolical panko crust.

It took me thirty minutes to scrape the freaking igloo off the car just enough to see the back and windshield and enough of the side windows. I guess I should be glad that there was wind so that I didn't have to scrape off the left side of the car, but god was it a PITA.

[conuly]

Ugh.