One of the interesting things about blogging is looking at the stats…how many views, which posts, which links people click on, etc. But perhaps the most fun thing is the “search engine terms,” i.e. what did people search for on Google or Yahoo or whatever in order to find themselves at my blog. I just took a look today and the most popular search terms by far have to do with baby seals. Apparently my theological musings are less interesting than bludgeoning cute, fuzzy animals.
Nov 172009
Winter. It’s here. No doubt about it anymore. We were flirting with it for a while…on again, off again. But now, I think it’s here to stay.
I didn’t realize how cold it was on Sunday when I decided to go for a run. But before too long, I figured it out…somewhere between the burning sensation in my lungs and the fact that my legs were numb despite my sleek running tights.
I never looked at the temperature, but I’m guessing it was somewhere around 5 degrees. That’s Fahrenheit. But wait…it gets better. When I woke up Monday morning to drive to work, the thermometer was registering at about -15. That’s FIFTEEN BELOW ZERO! IT’S ONLY NOVEMBER!! I can see this happening in the depths of the Arctic winter that will be upon us soon enough, but we haven’t even hit Thanksgiving yet. Ah, Alaska.
By 1pm, it had warmed up to a toasty 4 below.
I elected to refrain from running yesterday.
Today doesn’t look good either.
Back down to -15 today. Almost noon and we’re showing -10.
Good news is that we’ve got a hot streak coming in over the next few days. We’re going to be gong up to about 16 ABOVE (!!) on Thursday and then continuing up a bit through the weekend and hopefully getting a bit of snow dropped on us. With any luck, I’ll be skiing by this time next week.