Hi friends! Many of us will be impacted by the Polar Vortex this weekend.
(Go home Canada, you’re drunk)
Anybody got anything specific planned? Like planning to bake something that cooks hours or a craft project?
My plans are summed up as not leaving the house. Netflix, an afghan, and naps.
Taking another stab at flour tortillas, and trying very hard not to throw a hammer through the new TV. I have discovered that even after I turn it off, after about a minute it will power up into a sort of standby mode, which is just enough for it to hijack the BT for the external speakers. Mind you, no fucking sound comes out of the BT speakers when the TV is connected to it–standby or no standby–but it also prevents other sources from playing through the speakers. I’d like to meet the asshole at Samsung who designed this fucking thing.
I’m sure that asshole at Samsung was definitely promoted and is probably now like a SME or system architect!
Do you have a tortilla press or trying to do it by hand?
Doing it by hand with a tortilla roller.
I’m pretty sure that same assclown designed my Samsung fridge’s ice maker. It completely freezes every week & has done that since the day the 1 year warranty ended. I have to chip the ice out then stick a hairdryer in it for 10 minutes. They know of this issue but didn’t recall it & all fixes are temporary from what I’ve read.
I’m exhausted on your behalf.
It’s 55 degrees here right now, and supposed to hit 48 by morning. I point this out to say this is entirely unacceptable. I want to speak to the manager, right now. It’s February in Florida and dammit I should be able to go to the beach if I want to. I had to dig around in my closet and find a long-sleeved shirt for God’s sake. I had to deploy my Baby Yoda slippers while I worked today. I want this situation addressed immediately, and I want a full refund of the last three days.
If I have to put on a hoodie to get the paper tomorrow morning, shit’s gonna get REAL.
Is the fruit gonna be okay? Like I know it’s not freezing temps but plants can be temperamental!
That’s ANOTHER thing. My orchids do NOT like temperatures below 55 degrees. So now I have to go cover them all up with Plankets <TM>, and I mean, who does that? That is literally NOT A THING and here I am, like some chump, covering up my orchids because stupid weather.
I have Florida Privilege, dammit, and I should NOT be subjected to the sort of nonsense that the rest of you put up with. Next I’ll be scraping frost off my windshield. No. No. The line is drawn HERE.
GOOD NEWS THEY REVISED THE FORECAST!!!!
When I checked Monday, the high for Sunday was 9 degrees. Now it’s 31 degrees!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The forecast here looks pretty good until next weekend and then the temps nosedive. That makes it hard to get the dog out for her walk.
Yeah now middle of next week it’s forecasted to nosedive. I got so excited thinking we dodged that polar vortex but NOPE.
My dad finally caved and bought a coat for his dog. Now he’s an old man walking an old wiener dog in a coat *giggling*
It’s going to be ungodly cold here for the next week or so. Lots of ugly negative numbers in the forecast. I’m really glad I don’t have anywhere to go til Monday!
im going to play outside 🙂
with a limp i guess….toe is well and truly fucked
aint nothing keeping me inside if winter finally fucking arrives tho
oh fuck me….putting on me workboots was an experience….
lol…
this could be a very short work day
I survived Feb 4! Worst thing that happened was I made a Bob’s Red Mill recipe for Purifying Soup that turned out to be a pot of somewhat tasty sludge.
This weekend I’m going to make sourdough english muffins and baguettes and make sure my walkway is ice-free so I can pick up my prescription next week. I don’t know why they only give you 4 pills at a time, my Dr is going to hear about that.
Temps in the 30’s for the weekend and 20’s next week, but I bought some great base layers from Mountain Zone. Part of my kitchen is cantilevered over the backyard so it gets pretty cold.
That soup sounds great except for the buckwheat groats. Sorry it turned out sludgey.
Gonna be mild here, 40s-50s F with a little rain.
I need to get back to my bike project, which I got to a certain point during the fall and then let sit since then. Everything that’s left — derailleurs, brakes, and their attendant cabling — is the stuff that intimidates me. I just need to drop the dread and have at it.