Wet Christmas

It's a little odd to be this wet and chilly here. The nighttime temperatures are actually higher than normal with all the cloud cover. I had about an inch of rain the night before last, certainly the most rain in one 24 hour period all year. Being so damp in the house I brought out a sweater for the first time in a few years. The week before and after Christmas is usually the coldest time of the year here. But this year it's just chilly. Travel in the western half of the country is going to be a giant mess tomorrow with snow or heavy rain expected everywhere.

The damp chill reminds me of Vancouver in June a few years ago. As I've told several people I originally wanted to go to graduate school in the Northwest: Seattle or possibly Vancouver. But I switched to studying to studying Russian and the schools in that area didn't turn out to be as attractive as ones farther east. I don't know how I would have done then with the weather. But now I'd have a hard time now dealing with it being damp much of the time.