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It is getting quite cold around here, these last few days. I always like to hold out as long as possible on turning on the heat in the winter, and it goes in stages. First I turn on the heater, but only in the evenings when we’re home, and before we go to bed, and then only to a low temperature. Then, as the mercury drops outside, the heater use time period starts to expand. It wasn’t until this week that we finally gave up and left it on during the night. There are only so many extra blankets (and cats) you can pile onto the bed before it just gets ridiculous.
And the cold has come along with its good buddy fog, hanging damply over the entire city and making driving anywhere just that much more exciting, since visibility is about half what it normally is. And things aren’t helped by the fact that when driving through town, it’s that much harder to see pedestrians, or worse, bicyclists, most of whom don’t believe in using lights and so have this tendency to appear out of the fog and take even the most alert driver by surprise. I have to admit that it makes me almost a little glad that Richard came home from Seattle with a bit of a chest cold so has been driving to work instead of biking.