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So the weather here in Cedar Park is no bueno at the moment.

Gina has rounded up all the animals, the two rabbits (Nortbert and Zoe), the bird (Jasper) and the pups (Buddy, Emma, Curly and Basil). To be honest, the guest bathroom is feeling a bit like Noah’s ark. We heard some nasty sounding hail about 10 minutes ago. We had a quick dip in the power for a second, not enough for everything to actually go dark.

The radar is showing that there is likely a funnel cloud up there in the general area, hence the fact that we have hunkered down in the bathroom (being the interior room with no windows). I am going to contact a roofer after this and see if the roof has been damaged.

The radio just made an announcement about the storm, from the sound of the announcement the storm is south of us now. I just checked the Weather Underground and it looks like the storm is pretty much south of us right now.

We are going to hang out for at least another 20 minutes and then see venture out, see if there is any damage. All the animals are taking the little field trip here fairly well, with the exception of Basil who is always a little tweaked.

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… vs wisely.

I chose poorly this morning.

I wore shorts to work instead of a longer legged garment (ie jeans or pants). I have been normally checking the weather every morning before making my wardrobe selection, I skipped that part of my routine this morning. And as the wife pointed out to me, I had gone outside earlier this morning and returned to the house saying loudly “Wow, it is cold out there. And did you see the ice on the deck?”

Ummm, yeah so I should have put 2+2 together and gotten that it was going to be cold ALL day. However, in my meager defense the weather here this past week has been that it starts way COLD and during the day gets WARM (or at least one day it was like 80, which means it was HOT, for winter).

All in all, I am reminded of the fact that I used to wear shorts to Sexton (high school), partially to be weird, the other part because the school was heated with radiators which meant that it was usually too HOT to be comfortable in jeans.

This time around, I made a poor choice. In part thinking that it would be warmer during today, based upon the widget on my desktop it is 37 degrees (Farenheit) outside. Also, I cannot remember if the office that Jeremy and I share is too hot during the winter times. In part, our office is way too COLD in the summer. I was assuming they would kick the heat into overdrive during the winter. Thus far, not so much.

Lunch is over and time for a meeting.

Laterz

Update: On the way into work today, I was thinking about my blog post from yesterday, as I wore pants. And it struck my why all day the “I choose poorly” didn’t look quite right. I am going to blame it on being in a hurry, but it struck me on the way into work, I apparently “wrote poorly” yesterday too.

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