Twenty minutes into my class tonight, MCCC’s PA system (which sounds about ten times worse than any drive-thru speakers I’ve ever heard) crackled on to say that all classes for the rest of the night were canceled. Not only was I not able to explain my class’ next two assignments to them in depth, but given how bad the roads were at that point, I didn’t even get home much earlier than I do on a normal night. Now I’m forced to consider whether I…
I don’t like talking about the same topic twice in a row unless it’s something on the scale of politics, but I can’t help but write about the weather again today. My drive to and from MCCC takes a little over half an hour, and the intersection of US-23 and Ida West Road, where I get off of/onto US-23 up here in Michigan, is almost exactly the halfway point of my drive in terms of time. When I left the house a little over an…
I don’t want to say that I dislike driving in fog, but it’s not exactly my favourite weather. Driving in the fog in Toledo isn’t so bad, but yesterday we had just a tremendous amount of fog all day long, and getting up here to campus proved to be quite difficult. I’m used to driving in the fog in the suburbs and such, where there are always lots of things lit up to help keep me on track. Up here in rural Michigan, though, the…
I think I can say with certainty that this is the first time I’ve ever made a post on the .org in January with my window open. At the very least it’s the first time I’ve done so when it’s so late at night. We hit about 65 in Toledo today, and even now we’re still at around 61. By point of comparison, the average low we reach in the middle of summer is 60. Normally we don’t open the house up until it gets…
Last night was the first time I can ever remember being under a winter storm warning during the changeover from year to year. In the end we only got some snow out of it, which melted before a new front dumped a few more inches on us this evening, but for a while there I was pondering what might happen if we were to lose power as midnight approached. I soon realized that the best way we’d have to monitor the switch to 2008 would…