Negative Hell Blaze

So today is the first decent day of the year so far.  It may be raining, but it's warm out damnit.  Well, comparably warm.  Spring is still a long way off, but today is just such a nice change from the rest of the year so far.

2009 is the year of the weather like a frigid bitch!  For the first five weeks of the year it was insanely cold.  I'm talking 30 dog nights here.  It was almost always in the negatives.  Even a day at zero seemed like a summer day in Lagos.  And forget about going outside to do anything.  The entire month of January could only be spent indoors, huddling for warmth.  Even going out to start up a car for work was an undertaking that required multiple layers.

Of course this all takes into account the temperature if there was no wind.  If it was gusty outside, and believe me it was on certain days, than it almost felt like living in Iceland.  My beard would form icicles and go white.

The worst part is that for most of the time it was too cold to even snow!  Oh, there was snow.  You better believe there was snow.  Yet it only snowed on two or three days.  The rest of the time we were stuck with 10 foot snowbanks, horrible roads, and ice over everything.  The days when it snowed were actually sort of nice.  There's that evening glow that the snowy sky washes over everything.  A nice, eerie orange color.  When those three days were over it was back to bland, frozen misery.

So to winter I say, fuck you.  Roll over and die and let muddy Spring, the dirty hippie, come through.  Die winter, die!