Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 16, 2019

Jeff got this one just perfect went from over 50 to below freezing between 05:00 a.m. and 09:00 p.m. Friday. Beware the Ides of March for sure. All the wet pavement and puddles from the day’s rain had started to freeze before Midnight.

Can’t handle it? I left northern Michigan after high school, when the high in calendar January was 2 below zero. My parents and other relatives thought ice fishing was pleasant recreation; I thought they were insane. (Still do.) Now I hang out at the beach in San Diego and enjoy the sunshine, when I’m not running the multi million dollar company I built here. And the obese welfare drunks back in northern Michigan freeze their keisters off eight months out of every year (on their way home from the bar), but they sniff that I “can’t handle it”. So who got the best of that bargain?

They’re thinking,“Thank god for the weather. It got rid of that arrogant, condescending Lidell kid.”

Today it was 76°F here (no, you may NOT use my location information). And two days ago the daytime high was in the 30s. Whiplash!

The month of March has ADD.

The weather does have a bit of a bipolar touch lately.

Is bummer, yes?

How do you like all the immagrants in you tent cities?

Hilarious! When I got up a half hour ago, the sun was shining and the sky was blue. Fifteen minutes later It was snowing like crazy, and I posted a video n FB. Now, ten minutes after that, The sky is blue with puffy white clouds! Yes, I do live in Michigan, just like Jef!

This brought to mind the Ray Bradbury story “All Summer in a Day.”

you make better money in the north then you retire to the South and you live long enough to be able to enjoy the money you made ain’t Life wonderful says an ex michigander

I was a service brat, and have lived in Portsmouth NH, Noreaster’s in winter but OK in summer and petty in the fall, Central Florida pre Mouse, nice winters but humid and hot as all get out in summer, I was home alone during a hurricane one summer , So Cal between LA and San Diego back when you couldn’t see across the valley unless the Santa Anna winds came though got to experience an earthquake (only thing that ever freaked my mother out), and Idaho (see NH). Not in that order. Currently in the upper reaches of the Midwest. Never found any place that didn’t have it’s plus and minus aspects. San Diego is a nice town I enjoy visit, but a little close to Baja and it’s issues, and you still have earthquake and overpopulation to deal with.

I always used to think “At least you don’t have to shovel rain.” That was before the floods.

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There’s a thing called contrast baths that athletes will sometimes use to help speed recovery from an injury, and it works like this: Let’s say you’re rehabbing an ankle. You fill one bucket with ice water, another bucket with warm water. You soak the injured ankle in the ice water for a while, then you transfer it to the warm water, then you repeat the process a bunch. Like much of that stuff, it either works or it doesn’t, and it’s hard to say which or how much, but it really doesn’t seem to hurt anything.

But if it does work, and if it works on a systemic level, nobody, NOBODY in the Midwest should stay sick or injured for more than a couple of days.

How did you know exactly which day was going to be warm, and which day the cold front was going to reappear, in Vermont?!

I used to know a guy who, in his late 20’s, moved to the northwest from northern Minnesota, where he grew up. Someone who didn’t know him heard him complaining about a recent snow, and said something to the effect of “Oh you Seattleites, it’s just a little snow.” To which he replied, “You don’t understand; I moved here because I never wanted to see snow again!” (Last I heard he was living in Peru.)

Moving to Minnesota because you don’t want to see snow is not a sensible course of action.