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A friend of mine Jeff Tittle sent out a picture today showing the temperature on the Fred Meyer’s sign. Fairbanks in January can get a touch cold.
The caption from his email.
Shots taken at noon today. I threw a cup of hot water in the air and it instantly vaporized with a hissing noise. Nothing hit the ground. Brrrrrr
We lived here for just shy of 4 years. It actually got colder than this on occassion. I should add for the uninitiated that it’s not snowing, that’s ice fog. It get’s so cold that any moisture in the air freezes into tiny ice crystals and then just floats like a fog.
Just because I have become 6 x 9 (base 13) years old doesn’t mean one should panic. In fact, DON’T PANIC should be written on my birthday cake.
It’s easy for one to become philosophical when one’s age becomes “THE answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything”
Hmmm.. I wonder how old I’ve become? (-:
Another hint.
I’m the second Sphenic number. I can be calculated via age= PxQxR where PQR are all distinct prime numbers.
I have picked up a strange counting thing. I like to count my steps when I walk up and down stairs, long walks, etc. Well it turns out that from my driveway to the edge of the beach is 270 paces. With an average stride length of 2.5 ft. That make the walk from my drive way to the beach at roughly 675 ft. It’s about 10 minutes to walk down and watch the sun set.
It’s a pleasant stroll with a great view over the Pacific Ocean at the end of it.
For those of you who have had automatic watering systems in their yards for years can probably ignore this post.
In our new house here in Asilomar/Pacific Grove there is a watering system in the yard. I figured it was broken because it was unplugged and non functional. Well today I decided to play with it. And what do you know, it works. How cool is that? Plugging it in was a moment of faith. The plug has been out in the weather for a while and is just slightly worse for wear.
I plugged it in, opened the control panel and started to dink around. It turns out that zone 1 is the front yard, zone 2 is the side yard and zone 3 is the back yard. I think zone 4 is a mythical land somewhere in Narnia. 
Oh, and as a hint. Warn the children playing in the yard before you try to figure out what zone works where. They start hollering and complaining when the sprinklers all around them pop up and start spraying. I’m so mean.
I’ve programmed the sprinklers to go off tomorrow morning at 5 am for 10 minutes in all three zones. It’ll be cool to see if it works properly.
TOYS!!!! Ya gotta love toys.
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