{"id":32125,"date":"2024-12-17T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=32125"},"modified":"2024-12-17T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:25:40","slug":"dec-17-minus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2024\/12\/17\/dec-17-minus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 17 Minus"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, once something freezes, it’s solid. That’s the key to the arctic – they didn’t fear the cold, they made use of it.<\/p>\n

Wade Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the fire room minus 2, outside minus 30. <\/p>\n

Best surprise ever 2 gallons of melted water in the big steel bowl. Not knocked over. I let out a big yahoo and ran for the water funnel and 20l water bottle. Everybody got fresh snow water. I will get a hot breakfast and coffee in a while.<\/p>\n

Postal strike is over by government mandate. Amazon is processing payments from orders from last month. I do not have a way to pick them up when they arrive.<\/p>\n

Like I said yesterday, since the union was forced back to work, I cam’t see the workers working at full speed. I don’t expect to see those parcels soon.<\/p>\n

Npw for the tough part. The snow bowl was empty. The snow was outside in -30 air. It was sunny, two my solar panels were covered in snow. I had to go out.<\/p>\n

I am back in no I didn’t take a picture. My hands hurt in seconds, lung on the first breath. I wasn’t out more than 5 minutes. It felt like forever.<\/p>\n

Cooking water for coffee, leaned way back in my chair, feet up. That is because the room below my floor is cold. I can feel it right through my cha booties. My name for my insulated slippers.<\/p>\n

First pour is done. Coffee was in my near future. I was going to make dehydrated hash browns from 14 years ago but remembered I had the package of instant mash potato pwder withe best before dat of sep 2010 last night.<\/p>\n

So oats it was I discoveed that rolled oats work out ok if you put boiling water on top. Add a little crystalized honey, chia seeds and cacao nibs and you have breakfast.<\/p>\n

A meal fit for a king. Maybe not but it wasn’t bad.<\/p>\n

My coffee is almost done, I gotta go. Have a safe day. So say we all.
\n