March 98, 2008

[elfs]

What the frack is up with this weather? It was 50°F (10C) when I stepped outside this morning, cold, wet, overcast and miserable. Are we not going to have a spring this year? This is like 2002, when we had no summer. Winter just hung on and on and on until Fall came around again. It's like the year's just going to go Jan Feb Mar Mar Mar Mar Oct Oct Oct Oct Nov Dec.

Dammit, I want to spend more time outside. I want to plant my damn tomatoes!

Yamaraashi-chan and I spent a lovely hour outside Wendnesday evening, even though it was overcast, so she could try out her new inline skates with an adult to hang onto. She's having trouble standing, and she's definitely not ready to start providing her own power, but it's a start. I have to find some athletic activity she enjoys. She rolled around in the driveway and shouted "Daddy!" every time I got more than three feet away. I felt very father-like. And a meme confirms it:

83 As a 1930s husband, I am Very Superior Take the test!

(I saw someone release a PDF of these very old documents from the 1930s, and I'm so please to see someone put it together as on online meme.)

Tonight, we're taking her out to celebrate her birthday. Not sure what yet. We'll think of something. It's her night, we'll let her choose the restaurant.

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

50F is 10C, not 27C...

I wonder if the heat wave a couple of weeks ago constituted this year's entire summer. Hmmm... I'll rethink those tomato plants...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I had this niggle in my brain that was wrong as I wrote it, but units lied to me. (The interface for temperature in the Unix units conversion program is... unique.) I've fixed it, thanks!

[gchpaco.livejournal.com]

GNU units is set up to do relative differences, not absolute conversions. I don't know that it's actually possible to express absolute conversions in their framework...

[jenk]

I scored 23 (very poor) as a wife and 104 (superior) as a husband.

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

[skywhisperer.livejournal.com]

I just picked my first ripe tomatoes yesterday. Obviously, you live in the wrong part of the world.

[solarbird]

I remember in the early 90s we had a few years like this but we did eventually get summer starting in July. So relax. ^_^

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

I scored 62 as the wife. Of course, I lost massive points for not having children, and dammit, the boyfriend *likes* when I put my cold feet on him to warm them up.

[amythis.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't spent two weeks in sunny Scotland, I don't think I could stand that we've only had about a week's worth of warm, sunny weather since October.

Oh, and happy birthday to Yamaraashi-chan.