How cold is it.....

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I'm having dinner on my screened-in porch. It's 6:30 and 71 degrees.
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I'll remind you of this in July when it's 120 and you're hiding inside sitting in front of your air conditioner

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I'll remind you of this in July when it's 120 and you're hiding inside sitting in front of your air conditioner
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I am a lifelong New Englander, so cold and snow mean to me something different than what they mean in the Southwest. For me shoveling snow in shorts and t-shirt has always been normal and probably safer because it may be that the circulatory restriction caused by heavy clothes is what makes men have heart attacks shoveling snow, as much as the exertion. And I would always laugh when I came to Vegas or southern CA and see people walking around in what I would call winter coats when it is 60 degrees.

But after one summer in Vegas (especially this past summer!) that became me. Seriously lost my resistance to cold, and now I wear the heavy jacket in the 50s and 60s. And after a month or so in the 105-110 F it became completely bearable, and with just a hat and occasionally drinking water I can walk the streets all day.

it was very interesting being the experimental subject and seeing how quickly we get acclimated and deacclimated to temperature. There must be a large psychological component. I would always feel bad seeing a young man from the Dominican Republic playing night baseball in April in Chicago or Boston and thinking of how unpleasant that must be for him, but I guess he acclimates to it just as easily as I did.

The wife says it is a brisk -30 currently with a high of -14 today. it is supposed to be 50 degrees on Sunday but she will be going elsewhere before then to get away from the heat.

Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.

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Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.
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Just get yourself one of these and don't worry about the flooding.

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Quote: Dieter

Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.
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Just get yourself one of these and don't worry about the flooding.


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Given the regularity that my day is reminiscent of The Immigrant Song, an open top seems... "suboptimal".

Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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I always preffered having the first tee time so I could get my four hour round in and still have almost the whole day ahead of me.

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?
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This course was just par 3’s. Didn’t keep a real score but probably around 36. 4 pars. 5 ‘others’. I did have a 28 (which should have been a 29 if I didn’t take a Mulligan). A few days ago. Best 9 ever here. My variance in golf is
H. U. G. E.

A balmy 54 as I eat breakfast, going up to 74. Tucson has the best winters of any place I've lived since Puerto Rico in the late 80s.
It's little wonder it is one of the snowbird capitals of America.
Rodeo week starts on Thursday, with a massive parade through downtown.
In a city desperate for affordable housing, the Rodeo Arena sits on fifty acres of prime real estate and is used about a dozen days a year. Two entire square blocks sit vacant except for the week they provide parking for the arena.

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?
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This course was just par 3’s. Didn’t keep a real score but probably around 36. 4 pars. 5 ‘others’. I did have a 28 (which should have been a 29 if I didn’t take a Mulligan). A few days ago. Best 9 ever here. My variance in golf is
H. U. G. E.
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That is exactly how I played Par 3 courses. Just keep track of Pars and birdies.

Very cold this period, but it's good