doodledee

The image above is the little weather widget that lives on my desktop. That's what it looked like when I woke up this morning. I wept into my raisin bran when I saw it. Then I put on a swim suit and loaded junior into the bike carrier thing and pedaled over to Linden Hills park to spend the morning soaking in the kiddie pool. Genius.

Later this afternoon we lost power for a few hours. As soon as the lights went off I ran to the freezer to eat save all the ice cream. Then I ran downstairs to shut the computer down before the battery backup thing ran out of juice. I'd never actually been home when the power has gone off, so today was the first time that I realized that while my computer is backed up by battery, my monitor isn't. Whoops.

The hot debate [ha!] in the neighborhood this weekend started when neighbor.dave yelled "at least it's not twenty below!" as he happily sweated through his yard work routine. I said I'd prefer the cold to the heat. I'd probably say the opposite if it were 20 below out, but whatever. Several of the folks mingling around agreed with my take, but a couple of others just smiled and said they love days like today. Doofs.

In other weather news, Libby mentioned that the newest WCCO weather map program that Paul Douglas uses on TV doesn't support 3 digit temperatures. Burn.