Thursday, January 26, 2012
With all of this snow and ice and dark, I almost forgot to tell you … for a few hours I thought my apartment was haunted. It happened on Wednesday night, when the temperature outside was at its coldest and I’d been locked inside for about 36 hours. I got up to go to the bathroom, [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
I spent most of the weekend working on a freelance assignment, checking in occasionally with the manager of my apartment complex. When, at 6:00 on Sunday night, there still was no electricity to the buildings, I figured that for sure I was going to have to impose on my friends for another night in their [...]
When last I typed here, I was having a bit of fun at the expense of Seattle area drivers and their winter weather skills. Apparently, the Great Northern Wind took great offense at this and decided to teach me the error of my ways — that, or a confluence of bad weather and bad luck [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
It’s snowing in Seattle. Now, in other parts of the world “it’s snowing” might just be a statement about the weather, but here in the greater Seattle area the words carry the weight of an emergency klaxon. Snow … SNOW … SNOOOOOWWWWW! Now, to be fair, the snowstorm we’re having today DOES seem to be [...]
Most of you reading this know that I lived and worked in Japan for five years back in the early ’90s. With that in mind, it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that I’ve been a little distracted by the news reports, photos, and videos being posted from Sendai, Tokyo, and many other affected areas. [...]
Well, it looks like the warm weather I predicted for Comic Con won’t come as such a “surprise” after all as things took a turn for the warm yesterday. We were in the midst of another cloudy, chilly day when suddenly it started raining … and I mean RAINING, like east coast style. Driving rain [...]
We’ve had an unseasonably chilly spring and summer so far her in SoCal. I’ve kinda liked it. There’s been a lot of cloud cover and temperatures have pretty much not gotten out of the 70s. The long-time locals are beside themselves, but I’m finding it very pleasant weather. I’m going to make a prediction about [...]
Saturday, January 9, 2010
I was fascinated to see this satellite photo of the United Kingdom covered in snow … practically the ENTIRE island COVERED in snow! Pretty cool, eh? Thanks to Aaron Williams for the link, as well as one to a larger version of the photo.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Seemingly in perfect unison with the change back to Standard Time, there’s been a shift in the weather here in the greater San Diego area. The days have been balmier than usual at this time of year … but the nights are seeing a very low marine layer come scooting onto shore, and that means [...]
As promised, yesterday was hot and humid … just like I remember summers in the Midwest being. We headed out to the Bristol Renaissance Faire, covered our pasty-white bodies in sunscreen, and had a terrific few hours amid the “forsooth”s and the “milady”s. I ate the requisite turkey leg, and we all tried a concoction [...]