Lana and Puma in California

I Also Hate Winter!

March 16th 2007: snow!

I Hate Daylight Time

Let’s leave the right to define concepts to scholars and examine whether Daylight Savings Time is really so helpful. In fact, in spite of a seeming profit a lot of people come out for cancellation of Daylight Savings Time. They assert that summer time exerts a negative, wrecking influence upon people’s health. It may cause:

• Bad mood;
• Lethargy of unclear origin;
• Infarct;
• And even a sudden death.

As the research shows about 80 % of people in Russia, for example, suffer from Daylight Savings Time. The application of summer time leads to forced awakening of people during 7 months in a year. Children are especially prone to harmful effect of summer time. 30-50% of their morning sleep falls on its healthiest phase - desynchronized sleep that impacts nervous system forming and brain development of a child. Each year the number of people who bear desynchronization with ease is reducing.

According to other materials Daylight Savings Time leads to increase of:

• people’s morbidity,
• car accidents,
• industrial injuries,
• complaints about health worsening because of a chronic disease;
• attempts of suicide.

AHA!!  I knew it!

The Groundhog Was Wrong!!

High Wind Advisory

Today's Channel9 Weather email says:  <<Colder than average weather prevails for the next four days. We will have plenty of sunshine around today, despite a frontal passage this afternoon. Look for our winds to be out of the Northwest later today sustained between 20 & 30 mph and gusting to 45 mph. Because of that, the National Weather Service has issued a WIND ADVISORY between 1PM & 11PM today.>>  In like a lion, eh?

Is that why my garbage can flew two blocks this morning?

February is the longest month

It started snowing again in your nationa's capital, and the previous snow hadn't even melted yet.  Wahhh! 

Puma spends all her time by the heater grate in the kitchen. 

                         

Or watching her Kitty Video.

Me, I'm just quietly sitting here waiting for Spring!!

All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go

I've been worried all week that I might have problems getting to a doctor's appointment this morning due to the icy roads.  I put on my boots, anorak, and rabbit-lined gloves and grabbed my ski-pole walking sticks in case of trouble and set out bright and early in Alexis (my Lexus hybrid SUV). 

We slid right over the ice-locked driveway and managed to make it to a major road and over to the doctor's office, about 4 miles away.  We arrived to find . . . . a totally iced-over-skating-rink-of-a-parking-lot!!  I watched a very pregnant young woman slipping and sliding helplessly across the lot and I said to myself, "Whoops, this ain't for me."  I called the office and asked if they were planning to clean the ice.  Apparently their usual guy hadn't shown up.  I said I'd reschedule and drove home quite annoyed.

Puma and I spent the rest of the morning watching a H-U-G-E furniture truck trying to get up my hill, over and over, over and over.  That gave me lots of LOLs.  ;-)  Then I watched Martha Stewart making crepes and got inspired.  Even with diet jam, crepes are goooooooood!

The Winter of My Discontent

My friendly Channel Nine weather man sent me this email this morning:  "We're seeing some light snow to start the morning and this will be a complex storm over the next day and a half. Minor accumulations of snow are possible today but the "real show" will be tonight into Wednesday. Tonight, freezing rain could be a big problem. Ice could accumulate more than 1/2 inch. That would mean big problems for trees and power lines. "   Oh great!  Power Failure!  Falling trees!  I wonder what the weather is like in Pacific Grove right now.

My Favorite Superbowl Commercial

Two African lions are sitting around discussing how to pronounce Ricardo Montalban and 'carne asada' from Taco Bell.

Global Warming is Hereby Cancelled

The cold air is in place and we're watching a clipper system come from the upper midwest toward the Washington region. Expect to see snow between 6pm and 9pm from west to East and end early on Wednesday morning.

Alberta Clipper Part Deux

I'd write more, but it's too c-o-l-d !!!  Tomorrow the Alberta Clipper is bringing about 2 inches of fluffy snow.  Doesn't bode well for the morning commute.  Being one of those retired peeps, I'll just roll over and catch a few more Zzzzzzzz's.