The cold, the ravishing, and other things.

According to the KOIN TV website, the low today was twenty three degrees. Twenty three. That must have been early in the morning when I rode down what I call frostbite hill and felt the kind of cold that stings the skin like a spanking.

Now, cue up the music...

Tell me when will you be mine.
Ba dadum-dum. Ba dadum-dum.
Tell me Quando Quando Quandoooo.

While the weather outside is frightful, the smile from the lady cyclist at Powel's books was delightful. We seemed to smile for at each other for a long time. I think it was a deer in the headlight kind of thing for me, and I really think she was being nice because she wanted my primo parking spot on the railing. She looked cute and cozy in her cold weather wrappings.

Cue up the sound of a truck not starting...

My truck battery is about ten years old. The truck sits around and I know the charge on the battery has slightly diminished. Add to that the cold, and the fact that I haven't given the old Ford a tune up in, oh gee, about a year, and you can see it's reluctance to get going. Well, I'm a hard core cyclist anyway, so phooey on it. But I did take the battery out of the truck, carried it down into the basement, and put it on the charger. Just in case.

And finally...

Cue up a big drum roll...

Today's BIG word!

Today's BIG word is brought to you by Christopher Paolini, writer of Eragon. I've never heard of this one: Mephitic. It means foul smelling or poisonous.

"In Christopher Paolini's second book, there is a chapter where turgid clouds are preceded by mephitic vapors."

"When I was a teenager my room had a mephitic air about it, and my mother told me to wash my linens."

Did you see that? I used it twice! That's all for now, goodnight, and don't forget to see junior's movie, Eragon!

Dim the lights...

Cue exit music...

When will you say yes to me

Tell me quando quando quando

You mean happiness to me

Oh my lover tell me when