“Formula 0”

its formula 0 and I couldn’t be happier. Its 3:30 in the morning and I woke up after 4 hours of sleep – good sleep – dreaming about my ambitions for the School Board and how things are coming together. Hahaha hahahahahahaha

OMG. I can’t believe how great my Samsung cell phone is. At the end of the last paragraph are all the “hahas”. They really are ha ha’s because after reading that first paragraph back with its mistranslation of “below zero” as “formula 0” I started laughing. At least the phone got that right.

I knew I would have to get one of these phones about a year and a half ago when my son talked into his Android to Google something. Right now I’m dictating into mine in lieu of typing on my computer which is currently keeping me at arm’s length updating itself. While I waited I headed to the kitchen to brew some coffee and mix yogurt honey and fruit together. My patio thermometer registered 3 degrees below zero. It dropped another degree to 4 below before I had finished my pre-breakfast. That pleased me because the Duluth is about to set another weather record.

We already broke the record for the number of consecutive below zero days. I think its now 22 days. Now we are about to break another cold weather record that was set the year Claudia and I moved to Duluth from the winter of 1974-75. That year we had something like 52 or 59 days that went below zero. A couple days ago we were three days short of that record. Now we are two short of it with lots of winter still ahead of us.

My primary measure of a cold Duluth winter is having Lake Superior freeze over. That’s happened a couple times. 15 years ago or so I walked about a mile away from the shoreline over the ice following a skittish Fox that wasn’t too keen on my tracking him.

That first year in Duluth got off to a cold start. Claudia and I spent the night in a tent that August in Jay Cook Park before scouting out a new home. The next morning its canvas was covered with frost.

This post wasn’t going to be about the weather until I read that “formula 0” and got my hahahahahas translated. BTW, th hahas in the last sentence are fake laughs. I guess a smartphone is only so smart.

As I explained this post came about while I waited for my computer to update itself. It has been extensively edited since its first posting because it was a bit of a muddle. I’m keeping it because I like the anecdote about the weather. Now that the computer is available again I’m on the the post that filled my head upon getting out of bed.

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