After our two weeks of summer in March, when it was like 80° everyday, and only in the 50s at night, we’re now having more normal early spring weather in WI – 40s, maybe low fifties in the daytime, in the 30s at night. Yesterday I rode my bike to an early morning meeting at […]
It’s still “unseasonably warm” here is WI – it was 81° today, ad it’s still in the high 60s at almost 10 p.m. In the morning, Rach and I walked, and because I thought my first advising appointment was by Skype, I figured I’d just do it at home. But when I got on and […]
Since the winter dinners at School Woods have not been selling – no winter – and because her fiancé is in town, Rach and I hijacked one of the dates, and threw a cocktail party. There was a really nice crowd, somewheres above 30 people plus a lot of little kids toddling and crawling and […]
It’s not just winter that’s been cancelled here in Wisconsin, evidently spring has been cancelled, as well. We have gone directly from mild snow-less winter to summer heat. We are in the midst what is looking like a 2-week stretch of day time high temps in the 70s and 80s, and only going into the […]
The downside of being so over-busy is that when I have a short span of UN-busyness, I have this unfocused inability to do anything. Like today – I recorded a lecture, read the discussion boards in my class, graded two assignments, kind of caught up on email, answered numerous student questions, met with a student […]
We are having an extremely mild winter in WI – no snow, and the average temp is like 35 degrees, probably. The lakes are still open. All the municipalities around WI are saving a ton on not having to plow the roads – the figure given for for Madison on the local news last night […]
On the last day of May (during my staycation) I started the process to move my personal websites, mostly word press blogs, over to a new hosting service. It was a long process, or at least in my case it was, because I didn’t just move files, I transferred my domains – and that can […]
Over the weekend, we went from arctic to temperate – it was in the mid-30s on Saturday, and up to 46°s on Sunday. A huge amount of the snowpack has melted, but fortunately, we’ve been having warm wind that evaporates everything – no rain – so even though there are some [deep] puddles in the […]
So Saturday the 11th was the blizzard; all last week it stayed cold. Then last night, we got a few more inches of snow, that changed to freezing rain. Now it’s about about 32 degrees, and seems like we’re getting all set to have the same kind of grey, slushy Christmas we had last year. […]
Yesterday I biked to work without even needing gloves. Today is like the third day in a row with highs close to 70 degrees, in November, in Wisconsin. I think maybe this is the year when it’s just not going to get cold at all. What does that do the Wisconsin psyche? We live here […]