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[changeling]

It's going to be forty degrees today. 4-0. Stupid. And I'm not working today, so I'm home in an unairconditioned house.

Good thing Greenline's finally arrived. Now I can go into the State Library without worrying that our groceries will be spoiling on our porch.

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[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL - at first I was thinking, wow that's cold! Then I remembered. Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Wow, that IS hot!

So not only do we have the huge time difference, and the opposite seasons, but a different measurement of heat. Sometimes it feels like you're on a totally different planet from us, communicating through the miracle of interplanetary radio waves or something. ;)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Although doesn't most of the world use Celsius and metric measurements these days? ;)

The two planets are apparently coming into alignment, or something, though. Switching places, maybe. It seems that lately we're getting your summer weather in our winter, and vice versa. Remember the Christmas before last? I was almost blown off our (summer) road by a rainstorm. The next day saw us bundled up on a couch. Over at Cauldron Farm they were walking around in t-shirts!


I hate hot weather. I don't enjoy anything much above 28. At least my tolerance is up since I lost weight.

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, most of the world uses metric, but the U.S. stubbornly sticks to our own system. I don't know why.

Yeah, that's about my limit too with high temperatures. Though I do better with heat than I used to, for whatever reasons.

Rambling measurements. Or measurement ramblings.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I believe the argument is that it would cost too much to get everything re-tooled to metric.

I like metric better than Imperial measures, generally. We use a base-10 number system, so I don't have to remember that it's twelve thises to that, three thats to something-elses ...

Inches and feet are good casual measures, though. It's easy to say that you were about a foot away ("I was about thirty centimetres away" doesn't have the same prosic feel). Feet and inches are a bugger for sewing, though. I find it bizarre that no-one bothered to invent a smaller common measure than the inch, so you have measurements like 2 5/8". That's just silly. And I resent that I have to try and use a foreign language on my sewing patterns so that I can have the measurements in metric. :P

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

FORTY. Admit it, you live a quarter of a mile from the surface of the sun, you maniac.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Shut up.

(For fuck's sake, Melbourne only used to get one or two upper thirty days a year. WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR CLIMATE?? AND IN MARCH?)