Posted: 2/6/2003 7:18:17 AM EDT
I am normally a snow loving fool, but I think I have officially had enough of this crap. I have been daydreaming of the Caymans and since QS and I are about broke (see his Remington and you all will know why!) it is not a good thing for me to be doing. I have a lousy attitude and I am about to behead some of my co-workers. I think I have a terminal case of cabin fever.  Marian(SickOfThisCrap)Librarian edited by QS to correct brand of rifle responsible for broke-ness |
| I worked in Buffalo ladt winter during that 7ft snow storm, I leanred all about snow as you can see Im from GA. I feel busted my ass a few times froze and to make everyhing better the SOB I worked with wouldnt give me a ride antwhere but to from work, so I had to walk to get food and stuff since you got to be 21 to drive the damned rental. |
Try working on a railroad for 26 years and your sickness will be much worse! |
Ugh...I can't even go there right now...I told you all it might be terminal! If I think about having the same job for another 25 years stuck in a confined space, it WILL be terminal! To add insult to injury, I have class today (all damn day!) and it is in the basement of a building on campus, so here comes yet another day where I will not see ANY daylight. Marian(StillGrumbling)Librarian |
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marian, you sound like your getting that winter depression syndrome. you need to spend time in a brightly lit spot. read this article: www.princetonol.com/family/columns/resnick1.html i felt a bit of that syndrome when i was stationed in WA state. |
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Redray, I completely agree with you...now if I could only get my boss to pay for therapy in the Caribbean, all would be well!! On a serious note, I know that the winter blues really can be serious, but I think it is just stress in general added to the fact that we are having a colder than normal winter. QS' being in the guard, grad school, job difficulties and such are additional factors. I am just biting at the bit for a well deserved vacation! Thanks! Marian |
The really bad part is that it is still damn cold down here, just no snow. Here in Michigan City we get quite a bit of lake effect snow though. About 25 miles north in Michigan they had a 72 car pile up in a snowstorm yesterday. I drove by what was left this morning and it must have been pretty bad. So don't miss the snow TOO much. |
| I was in Atlanta last week. While its not the tropics it was about 70 monday and cooled downto the 50s rest of the week. The point is the sun was out and it felt so good to feel it warm the skin outside, and it wasnt so friggin cold that you couldnt go out to the range or something if so inclined. I would move south in a heartbeat if it were not for the wife and job thing. C'mon Powerball!! |
Yeah, once deer season is over I'm finished with the cold and snow. I'm tired of stumbling out of bed every morning, walking out to the car to warm it up for the trip to work, and then stumbling around in the dark out back feeding and watering the wolf hybrids before I leave. I had to work yesterday morning (Saturday) and at 5AM my outdoor thermometer had -4°. I hate really hot weather as well. I like it between 40° and 70°. Is that too much to ask for? 
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This ain't nothing! When I was an engineering student at Michigan's Tough University in the winter of 78-79 we got 365 inches of snow. For those of you who don't have a calculator handy, that comes out to over 30 feet of snow. In one winter, no less. We had to shovel our roof off twice that year to prevent a catastrophic collapse. The truly great thing about being a MTU Huskie is school was never closed that year. Now you know why it's Michigan's Tough University! |
I knew this would bring out the "Well, when I was a kid we walked uphill both ways, barefoot in in the snow to school" stories!!! It was only a matter of time!  Marian |
That's cool, TheCommissioner. Now, tell the nice people about the male to female ratio at said university. After that, the 30 feet of snow won't seem so bad.
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Dude, did you go there too? I wrote an satirical analysis of that ratio for the school paper. I concluded the true number of available men to desireable women was no less than 15 to 1. That's probably why we thought nothing of driving 100 miles one way on a Saturday evening to the nearest McDonalds for a Big Mac and then cross-town to the campus of Not Much University for a slow dance with a comely coed. If those NMU coeds were smart, they would have charged us for the privilege of dancing with them and we'd gladly paid. |
A couple of my high school buddies went there. They were all mechanical/electrical engineering students, with pretty decent HS grades. In fact, they were smarter than me. However, two or three years of heavy drinking (common?) and no womyns up there and they all dropped out. I spent some time up there, so I figured it had to be the seclusion, the availability of liquor or the lack of womyn. |
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I don't mind snow at all. It's the cold temperatures that I hate The biggest thing that pisses me off about Indiana winters is that the snow just comes down a little here, a little there. It doesn't snow enough to warrant buying a snow blower or snow mobile but it snows just enough to piss you off and ruin your outdoor plans. If it's gonna snow, then snow dammit and get it over with. Sheesh... |
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How 'bout our weather today?? I know some very irate parents in the Hendricks County area that had kids at home yesterday due to a rain storm...I am glad QS and I don't have kids because I would be throwing a fit with our local school officials...as it was all the kids that didn't go to school came to the library and annoyed the crap out of me! UGH! edited fer spellin' |
| You think you have it bad...we've been drifted in for about a day now. We live just north of Knightstown in Henry Co. The little county road we live on is drifetd shut both North and South of our home (4-5 foot drifts). I have a tough time understanding Hoosiers. Would you believe that we've had half a dozen people get stucka nd have to turn around (after thy took an hour to dig out). its like people can't stand to stay at home, they have to go out and ride around. I sit in the house and laugh at them. Sloth |
Her name is Princess, and no she doesn't have a friend (yet!)... |