Yesterday I had my A/C on

[conuly]

And anybody who wants to tell me there's no climate change, well, don't.

Today I have my heater on. This is not making my sinuses very happy.

But, dire implications for my sinuses and the world aside, yesterday was very nice and I took the dogs on a two hour walk to Silver Lake. We went halfway around the lake and back across the bridge.

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Comments

[archersangel]

the boxing gloves from 2,000 years ago story is interesting.

[conuly]

Thanks :)

[darkoshi]

I considered turning on the A/C yesterday too. It wasn't really hot enough for me to do it, but even just having a thought like that in February really feels strange. Then Qiao called me and said he had been thinking the same thing.

What does the bold font versus non-bold font on your links mean?

[conuly]

You'd be astonished how few people have asked me that. It just means that I think those stories are particularly interesting or important or both.

[darkoshi]

Ah, ok. That's the first thing I suspected. But then I thought, maybe those were pages you hadn't yet finished reading (or vice versa, pages you had completely read vs only skimmed), or maybe even just something random about how the links were posted.

[conuly]

Nah, I try not to post anything I haven't at least skimmed, though if I do (and it's not just a short something where reading the headline is enough, like "another 1,000,000 murdered with marzipan") I usually make a note. Because if people are going to rip it apart - and it's always the ones I haven't read that get ripped apart! - I want them to know that I just didn't read it.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, and just a month ago the temperatures in your area were in the teens - this has to be playing havoc with all your local wildlife.

My crocuses bloomed, then the temp dropped, then the snow came - it's a month till the Equinox, and I hope it will stay cold till then at least; else everything will bloom too early and get frosted untimely.

[conuly]

Oh, yeah.

Well, we've already had havoc played with our local wildlife. The one benefit I can see to global warming is that we now have mockingbirds, but they're not really native to this region, are they? Too cold. Except now it's not.

[dodger_sister]

Lol, our dog is 14 and can barely make it a whole block these days. Kudos to your pups for 2+ hours!

[conuly]

We came home and Moonpie was so tuckered out that she only jumped around wildly for ten minutes instead of her customary twenty-three.