Now, I'd like us all to remember that there are hundreds of thousands -- maybe even millions! -- of people who live farther north than I do. Most of Canada, for example, although I'm pretty sure Toronto is south of us. And also remember that I live here by choice, so don't get all "poor you" and "I can't imagine that cold" and so forth. I just wanted you to know that even my, um, internal parts got cold when I put the dogs out this morning.
I actually kind of welcome a few days of this. Weird, I know, but without a spell or three of really cold weather -- by this I mean when the daily high is below 0˚ F -- it doesn't seem like we have had a real winter. And I get all worried about global warming and drowned polar bears and Kansas turning into a desert. (Yeah, I know that global warming does not automatically equate with warmer weather. Work with me here, okay?) My post-menopausal body temp tends to
run warm, and if it never gets really, really cold, I never get to bundle up in layers of all that warm snuggly stuff we like so well.
However, I'll be ready for balmier temperature by next week sometime, I'm sure.
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A little something my older son sent me.
"This is the most ooh ah pretty presentation of human and economic development data sets I've ever seen, and informative too, though they sometimes seem to really Believe in GDP per capita, and these Swedes their English it is not always grammarian's perfect no. But you can see country circles of sizes proportional to population and colors denoting region on a graph of GDP per capita vs. child survival, and then push play and the circles dance around according to trends of the last 40 years. Then you can click on the circles for individual countries and see them split into the poorest through richest fifths of the population and move to appropriate places on the graph. And lots and lots of other stuff too. So check it out:
http://gapminder.org/index.html"
I haven't had time to delve very deeply into the site, but what I saw of it was really cool. Visual representation of statistical or other mathematical data are so much more effective than words or numbers.
TTFN, I'm off to my last day of work at the library...
