Forecast low of -21°C tonight

"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo) 12/30/2018 at 21:40 • Filed to: None

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So I just plugged the ZJ in f or the first time, ever.

Hell of a risk, I know. Fortunately I can still walk to work if it burns to the ground overnight.

It had n’t really occured to me I could park across the driveway until the other day. There isn’t quite enough room to park lengthwise in the driveway without poking into the alley. The property is shaped kinda funky, because the block I live on isn’t rectangular.

But at any rate w e got about six inches of snow on Friday night, and of course the plows push it all to the middle of the road instead of where people park. Which is great, except now it means traffic is going by the ZJ about six inches away from that non-remote manual-adjusting base-model mirror that I suspect will be unobtainium with similar weathering to match the other side and the rest of the vehicle. That was totally okay with St Jimmy, because I really didn’t care.

Moving the five-speed to the driveway does mean it’s no longer visible from the house, but frankly, neither is the rest of my collection. (Seriously, who doesn’t put windows in a house that look out at the driveway? There are none at all on that wall.)

But the other advantage of course is that now I don’t need to do the painful task of somehow stringing an extension cord across a busy sidewalk. This didn’t bother me again with St Jimmy. Again, not giving a shit about it meant I just didn’t bother, and frankly it’s pretty warm here. We typically don’t see too much below -20, meaning it’s not that big a deal to go without the block heater. But hey, if it's suddenly convenient to run an extension cord, I'll do it. 

PyramidHat > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:06

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-21ºC?  Where, pray tell, do you live?

lone_liberal > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:07

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So that’s about-5 in Freedom Units? You should be fine, if it doesn’t burn to the ground.

CB > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:13

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Pretty balmy. I have to street park the Fiesta, which is going to make tomorrow's -40 real fun.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:13

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That’s what we call “starting to get a bit nippy”.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 12/30/2018 at 22:30

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I call it “still reasonably warm”. Weather just isn’t the same out west  here as it is back in Manitoba. I get funny looks walking around outside in a Tshirt here below freezing.

pip bip - choose Corrour > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:30

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me currently

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/30/2018 at 22:32

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I hate you and your summer weather. s/

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > lone_liberal 12/30/2018 at 22:32

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- 5 in the obsolete imperialistic  units of an oppressive monarch, perhaps. I didn’t do the math. But it’s -21 in freedom units.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > PyramidHat 12/30/2018 at 22:33

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Canadian Rockies. It's pretty warm here, typically won't go much colder than that except the odd occasion. 

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > CB 12/30/2018 at 22:34

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Forecast is only -31 for Stoon. Windchill don't mean shit to a car parked overnight. 

CB > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:37

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Fair enough.

lone_liberal > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/30/2018 at 22:37

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Po-tay-toe po-tah-toe

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > lone_liberal 12/30/2018 at 23:21

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Nah. It’s a philosophical difference, not just a difference  of dialect. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 12/30/2018 at 23:22

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8)

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/30/2018 at 23:23

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Looks awful , TBH. Toss a negative in front of that and I’ll be happy, but that right there's  getting to the lower limit of sweat-to-death weather.

pip bip - choose Corrour > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/31/2018 at 00:11

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it’s fine, i’m only  wearing a t-shirt.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/31/2018 at 03:04

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So am I. I had put a light jacket on to walk to the grocery store, but then I had to do some snow removal so it came off. Like I said, it's still plenty warm out.