I was listening to the weather this morning and they said that it was -50 something in MN and then in Miami it was in the mid-fifies. 100 degrees different.

Ooh, me! Did you not like them?

I do, but I kind of forgot about them, and I have more red summer shoes than I wear as it is. Send me your mailing address, and I will try to get them out this week.

Those of us with below-freezing temperatures (and below-zero wind chills) are shaking our (frozen) fists in the general direction of Thailand.

Did I mention that yesterday I had to go outside at -18˚F to start my van? I wish that was a windchill...I think that was around -40.

You win at cold.

It didn't make me any *less* cold this morning, though. Maybe tomorrow it will.

Morning all. I'm in the recording studio today. We got the guitarist that was in Tommy this past fall. This guy is brilliant player.

Bonny, you should come and see the show we are working on. Basically the first 10 chapters from Genesis. As a secular person, it wasn't half bad. Then they do a Q&A section. It was entertaing to hear folks pulling Christian/New Testament bents into it.

Fascinating! I'd love to participate in a discussion like that. Especially after a shared experience like a stage show. Wouldn't Agness of God be good for that too?

Years ago, I co-sponsored a watch and talk at a local church with The Matrix as the topic. HUGELY entertaining discussion of faith/responsiblity/honor, etc. as interpreted by a religious community interpreting the Wachowski brothers.

I love that stuff.

The Dean has asked for articles about managing staff in tough fiscal times. I want to tell her I don't have time to research for her until she approves the replacement of the librarian she stole from us (for another job in her admin).

Teh cold, it burns. Am I crazy for thinking that the extreme cold weather is not so much exacerbating my sore/swollen throat as causing it? I seem to notice that it flares up after a cold spell.

It's been cruelly cold for a couple days now, and when I'm out in it, my airways have little to no protection from it, as if I wrap a scarf around my nose and mouth, my glasses fog up so badly I can't see. There is a definite allergy feel to this. And up till today, nasal irrigation and gargling with salt water has helped. Today, that stuff seems to help while I'm doing it, but 30 seconds after, it goes right back to feeling very unhappy.

In the end, I've transfered my agita to things that really deserve it, like man's inhumanity to man, and let my militant resistance to religious/spiritual terms mellow. It all seems relatively the same to me...similar flavor, different label...and what brings comfort, I support. What rejects peace, I resist.

This about sums up my philosophy, too.

I want to tell her I don't have time to research for her until she approves the replacement of the librarian she stole from us

Sounds like that's your article right there.

Be seeing you, Patrick McGoohan

Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy award-winning actor who created and starred in 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80.