The temp finally sunk down to Christmas freeze levels! Now I can love Christ properly!
Anyway, where's the snow? It's snowed one time so far down here, just as winter was finally getting cold about a month ago. Since then, nothing. Clouds showed up during the warm snap so we got frickin' RAIN instead. I see some clouds on the horizon, so maybe a MASSIVE BLIZZARD will swarm over us in all it's loverlyness, AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
It's typical Maine December weather -- 20s one day, 30s the next, 20s, occasionally 40s... it snowed twice and dumped a lot of snow on the ground, but warmed up and has rained several times and a lot of it melted... normal for December. Soon it should get cold permantly and stop warming up and raining. Which will be good... I like snow, not rain...
According to Radio U it's snowing in Columbus, Ohio, but as far as I know that's the only place. It sure isn't even close to snowing here- we're talking 50 degrees. :(
I had a very good Christmas this year, not that past ones haven't been great, but this one was slighly a cut above the rest. Why you ask? I think the attached image speaks for itself.
And argh! It's like, only barely freezing out! And it's been like that for about a week now. Whatever happened to the -20 to -30 (celsious, of course) temperatures of old? This really sucks, 'cause some of the outdoor rinks around town have begun to get a little sloshy. ....Hey wait why do I care? I got a broken wrist, I can't even play hockey anyways.
what i got
Rolling Stones Four Flicks(DVD)
A Clockwork Orange(DVD)
Futurama Volume 2(DVD)
U2 -Best of 1990-2000(CD)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Soundtrack
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (PS2)
Life of Pi (book)
One of Micheal Palin's Travel Books
An X-Box COntroller S
Some Nike T-Shirts
Being sick at Christmas is no fun. I'm sick too. It always seems to happen.
I got a gold ring too Weltall, but mine is the One Ring. Or at least a cheap plastic knockoff that came in my LotR Risk game. :D But now I can run around the house holding my precious.
Other cool stuff my family gave me:
A couple Linux books, but if there is a lot of duplicate info I might return one and get an OpenGL game programming book. I learned all my other OpenGL stuff from online tutorials and a borrowed book from a friend.
A couple games including Mario and Luigi and Viewtiiful Joe. And now I also have my Zelda disk on the way from Redmond!
Cool <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com">ThinkGeek</a> swag, like a ductape wallet, 2 shirts, and some bumper stickers for my junk heap car!
And one of the coolest things my family surprised me with is a 3 foot long map of Middle Earth. It's colored gold and looks just like something you would see in the movies.
Ohhh... great time to take a trip and see our relatives, when I'm the sickest I've been in like seven or eight years... yeah, I still feel bad. Not quite as bad, but I still don't feel great and have a awful runny nose... now runny noses going on for a while for me is normal, but not the rest of this stuff. And it's been four days now... I have not been having a very good time.
Anyway, that's where I've been.
Oh yeah, and to top it off when I left I forgot my GC power cable so we could only play N64...
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