22 Below

It was only -13°F this morning at my house, but it was a balmy -22° at my co-worker’s house in Sunriver this morning. The SROA weather station had the low at its office at -19°F overnight (it’s gotten up to -5°F at my office — here comes the heat wave!). La Pine and Sunriver-area schools were cancelled and there were power outages in some areas. Thank goodness I don’t rely on electric heat in my home.

In other words, it’s frackin’ cold out. You whiners in Portland who are complaining about the cold up there (it’s currently 24°F up there), you got nothing on us.

There’s no sense in leaving the house if you don’t have to. This will help to keep you indoors today.

• There’s a Woot Off on the main woot, kids woot and wine woot for all your holiday shopping needs.
• Somebody with far too much time on their hands has achieved (nearly) everything in World of Warcraft.
• This would explain a lot about Tetris.
• Parenting is making me dumb.
• Only linking to this SFGate story because it mentions a friend of mine and his wife who I went to high school with.
• Banning cookies is a really bad idea.
• Political correctness has gone too far.
• Why Your IT Sucks.
• Comcast Acquires Majority of NBC Universal, launches Data Usage Meter in Portland (their cap of 250GB is still quite a bit higher than the 100GB BendBroadband offers).
• Millions of tax dollars are going to dead farmers.
• Twilight Fans get Punked.

Stay warm!