Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Brrrr!!! Can you say, "Polar Vortex?" I'd be hard pressed to offer a scholarly explanation of that ice-implying expression, but I do find it quite easy to describe its chilling effects! Dang! I'm sure glad this place has a heating system in good working order... I've proclaimed this apartment a 'No Freeze Zone' for the duration of my visit.
I'm also glad I didn't postpone grocery shopping or any other preparations for the arrival of this well-announced event. I can remain comfortably inside for several days up to a week or more now and avoid the worst of the plunging temps.
When a Valk is one's only means of transportation, hunkering down becomes a most important option... its timing even more so... Adequate preparations aren’t absolutely essential, however, as 'work arounds' (like Uber and DoorDash) are available, but preparations are still danged important!
Simple cooking and cleaning chores, some interesting reading, some modest TV watching, and of course lots of naps will comprise the bulk of my entire itinerary for the next few days... I may just have a knack for this leisure living thing after all... And dare I say it... for planning when it becomes unavoidably necessary, as well...
Of course, we have traveled in much colder weather, and we obviously did survive. I can't say it was pleasant at all, but it was rewarding in the fact we were able to relish successful rides especially when we had to overcome any real adversity…
Future bragging rights, though, were the main gain from those experiences, as all the normally great sensations of riding were sadly muted by laser-like focus upon the misery of... you know... We human beings are indeed a curious lot, huh...?
One of the major ironies and contradictions of the riding experience, I’ve come to realize, is how we always seem to recall the adversities of our most difficult excursions in vivid detail more than the easy ones, and how those are the ones we often chat about most later on… One might logically think it would be the reverse...
Near perfect rides are luxuriously savored and thoroughly enjoyed, of course… while they occur. However, it’s the recollections of unpleasantries faced and overcome that linger longer in our memories for some inexplicable reason… We aren’t shy about extoling ‘enhanced’ tall tales about those triumphs to anyone who will listen, either!
I just peered outside to see if anything was going on. A light shower had fallen since my last gander at the world beyond these walls, so now I’m doubly glad we’d chosen to stay put on such a gloomy day! Since it had been rain and not sleet, the Vortex thingy must not have even fully arrived yet.
Yeah-yeah I know, a future brag opportunity has obviously been forgone by staying put. The comfort instead seemed to have been a very solid trade-off choice right that minute, however! Nope, I ain't sorry for that choice one bit either. Soon I'll be even happier! Things could always be worse, though...
Valker sent this recent pic taken at his place!
Not much else to speculate on or report about right this moment, so... I think I'll just go rustle-up some bacon and eggs... Because I can! No sir! It ain’t cold and/or wet at all in here…
DDT (12)
