The stupid LJ goat is *green*...
Mar. 17th, 2003 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whitereflection...and other stupid things done to 'celebrate' a 'holiday'. Wonder if all those getting plastered and eating green crud and speaking in a bad Irish accent know that St. Patrick was an English slave in Ireland who tended sheep (and had no clothes). Who then escaped back to England, became a priest, and returned to Ireland as a missionary of sorts--and who baptized, what, 2000? Something like that? (Hey, I may be agnosticish, and I may not want to be going to services, but I listen to what Michael has to say). Amazing what you'll find if you look beyond the green beer and 'driving snakes out of Ireland' stories.
Anyway, just felt like tacking on pointless observations about weather to my spamming posts of earlier today. Let's see...less than two weeks ago, we had a major snowstorm. Just over a week ago, it was really fscking cold, and there was snow and ice everywhere.
Then, in a matter of days, we go straight from 'January' to 'April'--and temps go up to the 70s, and it's sunny and balmy. Today, it's still in the upper 60s, I think, and we're supposed to have thunderstorms. From a blizzard to thunderstorms in under 14 days. Wowsers. (A person may or may not believe in global warming, or such things, but geez, the way things swing back and forth so wildly, the way things get more and more extreme heat/cold/severe storm-wise, and the way this becomes more pronounced with each passing year--seems that *something* is fscked up with our climate.)
Anyway, shutting up for real this time.
(And yeah, I'm a small bit Irish, through my maternal grandfather, but I'm much more German and Czech. No holidays for those, tho.)
Anyway, just felt like tacking on pointless observations about weather to my spamming posts of earlier today. Let's see...less than two weeks ago, we had a major snowstorm. Just over a week ago, it was really fscking cold, and there was snow and ice everywhere.
Then, in a matter of days, we go straight from 'January' to 'April'--and temps go up to the 70s, and it's sunny and balmy. Today, it's still in the upper 60s, I think, and we're supposed to have thunderstorms. From a blizzard to thunderstorms in under 14 days. Wowsers. (A person may or may not believe in global warming, or such things, but geez, the way things swing back and forth so wildly, the way things get more and more extreme heat/cold/severe storm-wise, and the way this becomes more pronounced with each passing year--seems that *something* is fscked up with our climate.)
Anyway, shutting up for real this time.
(And yeah, I'm a small bit Irish, through my maternal grandfather, but I'm much more German and Czech. No holidays for those, tho.)
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Date: 2003-03-17 01:51 pm (UTC)It usually has a slower tansition from winter into Spring... Not just Storm Storm... Spring & no Snow, almost.
And as far as I know... This 'unusual' cold for the winter, is what the temp actually should be, instead of the really mild ones we've been having recently.
Anyways, Happy Celtic Pride Day. I like that better, since... Well... Non-Irish people get to have fun also. ^^
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Date: 2003-03-18 06:26 am (UTC)But coldwise, that I was glad for--we're *supposed* to be cold and getting winter storms. That we weren't was always worrying me--especially since we weren't getting enough precipitation to prepare us for summer. We've been in a drought for a while now. I know a lot of people here were complaining when it did finally get wintery, but I'd much rather it be normal than comfy all the time. I have enough global warming concerns as it is. ^^;
Hope it was a happy Celtic Pride Day! ^__^ The bit of English and Scottish in me from my paternal grandfather's side likes that. Heh.
*hugs*
--Di