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Month's End

bobw
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Judy dropped me a note reminding me today is January 31st.  That's always a red letter day here in southern Minnesota, as the end of January usually signals the end of the worst of winter.  And it's been a beaut!  We've been through three blizzards and had the roads closed twice.  Two weeks ago we woke up to -29 Farenheit actual temperature, not wind chill.  A brief warm spell last weekend enabled me to get the compressed stuff off the driveway where the sun had been able to heat a few cleared spots and thus undercut the stuff.  What had fallen as snow and sleet had become compacted ice over an inch thick which, pried loose by a shovel, came up in plates sometimes almost a yard square.  As it went back into the single digits on both sides of zero the next day, these are all intact, one sticking out of a pile of crystallized snow which, since starting before Christmas, has reached about the four foot mark.

Except to shovel snow and toss ice chunks hither and thither, it has not been outdoor weather.

The pack I opened before midnight Friday lasted until 10:30PM  last night, for 22 1/2 hours.  As I went to bed before opening another I was able to log 19 cigarettes for Saturday itself.  To those farther along this road those numbers may not be impressive; but as January came in I was doing good to get a pack past 19 hours.  A year ago, those 19 cigarettes would have been more like 38.  I may move slow; but move I do!

Up at 6:20AM.  For you guys still in the working world for whom that's normal, imagine getting up at, say, 2AM on Sunday.  The day has gone well, though.  My current pack is in Hour# 17 and should get into the 20s with no problem.  Hopefully well into the 20s.  The weekend days are the hardest!

(Midnight 1 Feb:  It got to #26.  I'm honestly surprised, given the hassle Sundays have been.)

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