Odd Winter

This has been a really unusual winter. It snowed a bit in early December (which we all, being Clevelanders, took as an evil portent). But then it slipped into the 40's before Christmas...and basically stayed there through the end of January.

Amazing. Wonderful and relieving and amazing.

Here's the typical Cleveland response, though:

I heard a guy on the radio complaining about the lack of snow. He was saying "It's January; It's winter. It's supposed to snow in Cleveland in the winter!"

We're all so downtrodden and used to being the underunderunderdogs that when something good happens, we dig to find the coal within the diamond, the worm in the apple, the tin foil in the meatball sandwich. Er sump'n.

Well. Not me. I loved having a winter break, and really, it's too late for this winter to be ruined. Even if it snows every single day until the ides of March, it'll still end up being an overall pleasantly mild(ish) winter.

The skiers are complaining, but who cares? They're skiers. They go really fast in really cold air on purpose. How bright could they be?