Og pees in my cornflakes: Broken bedroom window at 7am

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Being that it’s silly season (aka winter) in Westchester, we’re following up a day and 2 nights of icy chill with 60°F and a kind of halfassed monsoon. Not much rain, but 40+mph gusts. And we’ve got a lot of trees on the place. Old trees. One of which let go a branch just before I had hoped to awaken in the normal way.

You know the sound it makes in old movies when they throw a message tied to a rock through a window? Kind of a KRISSSHHH!!!1!? That’s exactly what it sounded like. It would make a helluva ringtone, except a) everyone in earshot would seize up in panic and b) I didn’t get to record it.

Hey, I gotta send this before we lose power. 'Bye.

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You fool! I WAS sending you a threatening message!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!

It was something about freeing the trees. I don’t know for sure. I was on a wood alcohol bender.

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Apparently, “freeing the trees” is the semantic equivalent to “freeing the trees to become wood alcohol”. :dubious: I dunno…

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Nurse Carmen, you type very well for a blind person…

Update: The winds have died down, the super and crew have sawn up the limbs, and I’m stuck with 3 busted panes. No glass got into my bed (whew), but there was a fair bit of vacuuming involved. Anyway, it’s a good excuse to put in the storm window…just in time for 55° temps and loads of un-shut-offable steam heat. (It was damn cold a few nights ago; our gigantic old boilers need several days notice to keep up with the weather.)

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Westchester, as in LAX?

I’d love to have some 55° or 60° nights around here. (I like it cool, but propane is expensive!)

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Ah, steam heat. Steam heat comes with two settings–Subzero or Inferno. At least, that’s the way it was in my old apartment.

Glad nobody was hurt by the tree–damn insensitive of it to wake you up, I think.

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No, Westchester as in about 200 feet from the Hudson River.

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Ironic post / Location combination.

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Heh, when I was visiting my dad over Christmas his thermostat was only a couple of degrees higher than your outside temperature!

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No you don’t. This is some sort of terrible trick. Oh, sure, it’s 55F out today, but it’s windy as a bastard (which, as it turns out is above the 30mph mark, who knew?) and it’s been pouring for close to 24 hours. Listening to the forcast a few days ago, I thought “Great! I can add some water to the waterbed!” Believing it would actually be nice out and in the 50s kind of makes me a dumbass. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth it to drag a wet, muddy hose through the house tomorrow to top off way too low the mattress…

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My friend from Slovakia says there’s an old joke there: “How do you know it’s winter in Bratislava? All the windows are open!”

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Ain’t it the truth. A friend of mine once came to that apartment to find me watching tv in my underwear because it was so hot. She asked me why I didn’t open the windows, and I had to explain that if I opened the windows I’d let all the heat out and there’d be none left for when the radiator took its nap.