everything was dead frozen: car, stairs, houses, lakes, road signs, and all.
was amazed to find my honda civic still can start, although not without a few cranking, strange noise, like 'klklklklkklkl....,' but it worked!
Wandered around the town for a while, looking around snow blanketed houses, ever growing snow banks, frozen wawa lake, cozy looking smokes from chimneys....
Sunny, shiny, but extremely cold. What a day.
here is what i wrote last winter, i guess (interesting read, at least to me):
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Bone-chilling cold & One-day Volunteering
Severe windchill warning is still here, alive and well. Minus 22, but it feels like minus 32 due to gusty winds.
It’s getting even worse as night falls. Minus 32 to 35, but windchill is up to the point of “danger” as it feels like minus 42 to 45.
Where am I? Arctic? Siberia? It’s incredible.
---
Went to the a government office to do a volunteering work, for which I entered the org's gas bill data for 2001 and 2002. It was mundane, boring and tedious job. I expected it, but it was worse than I guessed.
I hurried away from the gov office, which made me feel trapped. They, so-called “public workers,” were definitely not the type I endeared. They were living the life of unchallenged. They were a sort of tightly linked ally, enjoying their safe and prestigious “nest.”
It seemed to me that they have stayed without any change, let alone challenge, there too long. They were addicted to their sweet and cozy “status quo.”
I didn’t like it, didn’t like the atmosphere, at all. I was very happy that I don’t have to go there more than once. Unless I had got a job for the IES, I might go there more than twice. But thankfully, I got to have a perfect excuse for not going there. What a relief. (*)
Severe windchill warning is still here, alive and well. Minus 22, but it feels like minus 32 due to gusty winds.
It’s getting even worse as night falls. Minus 32 to 35, but windchill is up to the point of “danger” as it feels like minus 42 to 45.
Where am I? Arctic? Siberia? It’s incredible.
---
Went to the a government office to do a volunteering work, for which I entered the org's gas bill data for 2001 and 2002. It was mundane, boring and tedious job. I expected it, but it was worse than I guessed.
I hurried away from the gov office, which made me feel trapped. They, so-called “public workers,” were definitely not the type I endeared. They were living the life of unchallenged. They were a sort of tightly linked ally, enjoying their safe and prestigious “nest.”
It seemed to me that they have stayed without any change, let alone challenge, there too long. They were addicted to their sweet and cozy “status quo.”
I didn’t like it, didn’t like the atmosphere, at all. I was very happy that I don’t have to go there more than once. Unless I had got a job for the IES, I might go there more than twice. But thankfully, I got to have a perfect excuse for not going there. What a relief. (*)
