When I moved to South Bend, Indiana from Austin in the middle of August, I couldn’t have been happier with the weather consequences. Escaping the brutal heat of an Austin summer for the cool nights and warm, sunny days of bucolic “Michiana” was pleasant, to say the least. But in the back of my mind, I knew that the joys of mild temperatures wouldn’t last.
My Indiana honeymoon of weather is now officially over, and much sooner than I expected. It snowed last night. A light dusting to be sure, but still on the ground when I awoke this morning. And it’s not even the middle of October! The novelty of it wore off about 30 seconds into the dog walk, and I remembered why I have been enduring 16 years of Texas summers without complaint (well, not much complaint anyway). At least my apartment has a garage – scraping the windshield with a credit card would have been too much for this Texan to bare.
We finally got a cold front here in Austin. What a dud. It was supposed to be mid to low 50s. I think it made it down to 60. High in upper 70s. Really a nice day to have lunch outside (which a few of us did), but I was hoping for a bit of a chill.
Thanks for making me feel better, Trey.
Watch subject. Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? What is he doing to us, and what is he doing to the world?
What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.