you know you live in Colorado when...

[ilanarama]

...you wake up to a snowstorm, and in the middle of the afternoon go for a run in t-shirt and shorts.

Comments

[wychwood]

Hahaha :) Are you sure that is not just because you are a CRAZY person?

(It's been really sunny here, and still quite cold - but my office is madly overheated and the sun shines in all afternoon, so I spend most of the day in pseudo-August, and then come out to sort-of-March *g*. It confuses my body!)

(PS: I didn't friend you before, because I thought you were crossposting everything, but then I realised you weren't! So.)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Well, it's entirely possible I am a crazy person. :-) But Colorado is exceptionally arid, and 40 degrees in low humidity with the sun shining feels quite warm. I don't know how it is in England, but when I lived in Maryland - much closer to the coast, and much more humid - 40 degrees felt horribly cold and damp. When I lived there, it didn't feel "warm" in the winter unless it was at least 65, which was rare.

And I don't really crosspost, unless I have some really cool photos I want to make sure everyone sees! Actually, I'm struggling with the whole identity question right now. Where do I post about food? Where about politics? (Hell, I'm thinking about starting a new politics-only blog.) I am confused and splintery.

[wychwood]

I don't mind where you post, so long as I can read it all! *g*

More seriously, it's going to depend on your audience; are your fannish readers interested in your food posts? I know I usually am, with anyone's food-talk. And is this journal your "RL" journal or your "outdoors" journal for most of your readers, because that's going to affect things, too.

POLLS ARE THE ANSWER :)

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the food talk has been going in the other journal. This actually was my first lj, and the people I friended here were mostly from the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre, where I hung out in the 90s. So not really the outdoorsy crowd, but that's what I posted here because that's what I had to post :-) Then there is the locked/filtered stuff on the other journal, for people who know my real name and I feel relatively close to, and some people from here who have me friended there, too, because that's where I post most frequently.

It's a dilemma! It's a conundrum! It's a mystery to me!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Hey, aren't you on goodreads? I just joined. How do I find you? (Or you can find me - I joined under my fannish email. *sigh* again with the partitioning.)

[wychwood]

I'm actually not on goodreads, despite trinityofone's best arm-twisting tactics *g*. I don't feel like I have time for *another* site, and I get more recs from LJ than I can keep up with! It does sound like fun, though.

[wychwood]

And we're generally fairly humid (eg right now: 93% humidity and -5C, er, 23F?), so yeah, 40F would be not terribly comfortable - especially with any sort of breeze. I suspect that almost anywhere in the UK would be humid compared to Colorado, simply because we're surrounded by water. Even where I live, pretty much in the middle, we're only about seventy miles from the sea. And there's not really hills high enough to create a really serious rainshadow effect.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh,that brings back some memories... back in the day, I recall when it got above 35 or so was when the jackets (as opposed to the *coats* donchaknow) went on. It never occurred to me that it was the low humidity that made it feel warmer. I always figured it was the high altitude just getting me that much closer to the sun :-)

Eric Wampler

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that we are closer to the sun in winter than in the summer and don't feel any warmer, you know there are other things at play!

Humidity makes you feel hotter in the summer and colder in the winter. Boo humidity. Although it also makes my hair prettier and I don't have to compulsively moisturize. Hmm.

(Right now it is snowing. So humidity ~ 100%. :-)