Today

[niemiro]

Nice, ish walk. However, it always seems so much warmer if you have someone to talk to. My train is so early that there is only one other child on it, and so I know her reasonably well. Same walk, day in, day out, same person.

 

[Lorien]

Good gosh! The very concept of "walkiing to school" is so far in my past I can hardly even remember. I needed to do so for two years (the 1st 2 years of high school) when school busses were no longer an option (as they were in grade school) and until I got a car when I turned 16. I don't recall it bothering me very much at the time, but it sure would now. LOL!

 

[Chase]

I like walking... just not when it is as cold as it is outside...

 

[Smurfyy]

^ Yeah, same.
Sometimes in the summer if it's really warm I walk along the sea wall, I can get some real nice photo's, just most of the time I don't have a camera with me. It's really nice, I take some speakers out with me and put the radio on, there's a place on the Island where it gets really hot, that's where I go

 

[niemiro]

For me it is just walking in the town, avoiding drunken mess!

 

[Shadowjk]

Not much Round my Way... Though there is a weetabix Factory about 2 miles away

 

[Joan Archer]

I had to walk throughout my school years, infants and junior then Secondary. I failed my 11 plus so no grammar school for me which meant I stayed at the same place my whole school life, until I was 15.

We never had a car, my dad only had one arm, but we did have a horse and cart.

 

[Chase]

Today is the coldest day I may have ever experienced in Monterey, they said we might have snow!

 

[Shadowjk]

Today was Very cold :/ .... And I did Judo again :D I must say I am getting used to the moves

 

[Smurfyy]

We are predicted for snow too...
Today my Maths teacher come back to school .
Also, received the new router in the post, so now I have a connection of up to 20MB!! .

 

[tom982]

Today is the coldest day I may have ever experienced in Monterey, they said we might have snow!

Yeah I bet Monterey is getting really cold this time of year It's meant to hit -4 tonight but I bet that's nothing compared to where you are

 

[Smurfyy]

Today I fixed a rather annoying hard drive vibration problem in my case.
I just took a chunk of school eraser and stuck it on the 2 corners of the hard drives. It looks dodgey, but it seems to be working!
Tomorrow I plan to fix a dodgey fan in there.

 

[Imperfect1]

I had to walk throughout my school years, infants and junior then Secondary. I failed my 11 plus so no grammar school for me which meant I stayed at the same place my whole school life, until I was 15.

We never had a car, my dad only had one arm, but we did have a horse and cart.

A lot of challenges for a young girl! Hopefully you had a good home life though.

 

[Imperfect1]

Almost through with my Thanksgiving cooking. I love this time of year!

 

[Chase]

Today is the coldest day I may have ever experienced in Monterey, they said we might have snow!

Yeah I bet Monterey is getting really cold this time of year It's meant to hit -4 tonight but I bet that's nothing compared to where you are

It was 2 degrees Celsius this morning, but yeah I'm sure it's much colder there.

 

[Lorien]

My God, but I do HATE being cold - always have. For me, 74F is just right and how it should always be. My wife likes 71F (well, actually lower but she hopes I'll leave it there longer than if she sets it lower and make me respond faster) and so we're always changing the thermostat - LOL! I don't much care for temperatures over 90F either (especially if also humid and with a poor air quality), but nowhere near as much as I dislike the cold. And you are talking about cold that I rarely encounter in Maryland - but I have experienced -22F (once) and it was completely unbelieveable (in fact, it was so cold that it almost didn't bother me as much as say 20F or thereabouts).

Besides the fact that I hate it in general, I absolutely can't afford to get any type of respiratory infection and while I know that the cold itself doesn't cause infections, it is also a fact that people who expose themselves to the cold are more likely to get a cold or pneumonia or the flu or who knows what else (unlike people who stay at 74F pretty much all the time). I do not want (nor can I afford) a prolonged hospital stay for something for which most people just stay in bed and drink a lot of OJ and maybe take some aspirin.

BTW, it's 47F out right now, which I consider moderately cold but with a couple of sweaters under a leather jacket and gloves and a fur hat I can tolerate it between the house and the car (the car warms up pretty fast) and from the car to wherever I'm going (which will be heated). I'm not out "in it" for very long at all.

 

[Imperfect1]

Today was mid-30s and tomorrow is supposed to be too, so it looks like we might have a white Thanksgiving, as snow showers are expected tomorrow. Don't know if the snow sticks though, when they call it snow showers.

 

[Lorien]

I very much enjoy seeing snow (even a lot of it - maybe especially a lot of it) through my windows. I do NOT like watching my wife clear the driveway (way beyond me these days) or paying someone to do it for us. I do NOT like driving in it or with it covering the roads with slippery slush or ice. And if it exists, it is of course much too cold out.

 

[ilikefree]

I don't like the heat, it saps the strength out of me. I did work in a blast freezer for a while -46, touch any metal with bare skin and you are stuck there.

 

[niemiro]

I hate the heat. Anything above 25C and it is too hot. You just lose all of your strenght and have to sit down. Cold temperatures are fine though. Happy to walk to school in the cold (I do the thin clothes, fast walk style) and that is good. Snow can be fun to play in the garden with, but it just becomes so dangerous and not fun on the roads.