- Signed: Matthew Hartman
- Filed under dating , photography , relationships , weather .
Hey folks,
I haven't written in here in a while, so I figured I'd drop a note. Things have been pretty busy at work the last few days. We had a fairly potent system push through the upper-midwest this week, resulting in all different precipitation types and some heavy snows, as well. Especially over Iowa and Wisconsin, where some reports have up to a foot of snow.
I've been working day shifts most of the week and since I'm a night-owl, I've been going to bed late and getting up early for work. This hasn't done much good to my health lately, as I haven't been feeling very energetic or motivated lately. And the weather hasn't helped.
We're finally experiencing winter up here in the Northern Plains... I guess we should have expected this - coming off the warmest January on record here in Grand Forks and many other locations across the country. An arctic front finally dropped through the region Tuesday, simply dropping our temperatures like a rock. We dipped to as low at -19 Wednesday morning and hit -21 this morning (Thursday morning). Tonight, we'll likely see temperatures even colder with clear skies and deep snow-pack. We'll probably see temperatures between 20 and 30 degrees below zero. In fact, as of right now (2:13am), it's -22 at the NWS office here in town. Wind Chill Warnings are in effect until 6pm this evening, for possible values of -40 to -60 degrees. That's just down-right hellish...
My car had an extremely hard time starting tonight when leaving for work. It struggled... I had to hold the key for several seconds before it turned over, but at least, it did... And even after letting it warm up for nearly 40 minutes, the heat still wasn't as warm as it typically is by that point.
God, I hate the cold! Someone please explain to me why I moved up here, again... It reached well into the 50's and 60's back home in Indiana on Thursday. And they saw a bit of severe weather, as well. Oh, what I wouldn't give for just one 50-60 degree day up here - or a good thunderstorm! ;)
Other goings on... Not much else has been happening up this way. Amanda and I are still seeing each other off and on. While I'm still having personal issues of how far I want to take this relationship, I think I can say that I'm beginning to like her. I finally met her two daughters, Noel and Anna... and they seem like they're good kids. Amanda and I went out for Valentines Day to Fargo, to check out a restaurant we found over the weekend. It was more formal than I expected... they wanted reservations - something I didn't think about until the last second - and when ordering wine for the both of us, they brought out the whole bottle and a bucket of ice. That's something new for me... I hadn't ever been to a restaurant where they did that. But we had a good time and ate some good food. I spent a little more money than I really wanted to, but seeing to it that I haven't had a reason to celebrate Valentines Day in years - I felt it was justified and deserved, to me and her...
And while I haven't been taking as many pictures with the new camera, I still have some new ones to post in the Gallery. It's been too cold to go out and take pictures lately, so that's the main reason why...
Anyhow, this entry is getting a bit long, so I'm gonna hop off here for now.
Hope everything is going well for everyone!
I haven't written in here in a while, so I figured I'd drop a note. Things have been pretty busy at work the last few days. We had a fairly potent system push through the upper-midwest this week, resulting in all different precipitation types and some heavy snows, as well. Especially over Iowa and Wisconsin, where some reports have up to a foot of snow.
I've been working day shifts most of the week and since I'm a night-owl, I've been going to bed late and getting up early for work. This hasn't done much good to my health lately, as I haven't been feeling very energetic or motivated lately. And the weather hasn't helped.
We're finally experiencing winter up here in the Northern Plains... I guess we should have expected this - coming off the warmest January on record here in Grand Forks and many other locations across the country. An arctic front finally dropped through the region Tuesday, simply dropping our temperatures like a rock. We dipped to as low at -19 Wednesday morning and hit -21 this morning (Thursday morning). Tonight, we'll likely see temperatures even colder with clear skies and deep snow-pack. We'll probably see temperatures between 20 and 30 degrees below zero. In fact, as of right now (2:13am), it's -22 at the NWS office here in town. Wind Chill Warnings are in effect until 6pm this evening, for possible values of -40 to -60 degrees. That's just down-right hellish...
My car had an extremely hard time starting tonight when leaving for work. It struggled... I had to hold the key for several seconds before it turned over, but at least, it did... And even after letting it warm up for nearly 40 minutes, the heat still wasn't as warm as it typically is by that point.
God, I hate the cold! Someone please explain to me why I moved up here, again... It reached well into the 50's and 60's back home in Indiana on Thursday. And they saw a bit of severe weather, as well. Oh, what I wouldn't give for just one 50-60 degree day up here - or a good thunderstorm! ;)
Other goings on... Not much else has been happening up this way. Amanda and I are still seeing each other off and on. While I'm still having personal issues of how far I want to take this relationship, I think I can say that I'm beginning to like her. I finally met her two daughters, Noel and Anna... and they seem like they're good kids. Amanda and I went out for Valentines Day to Fargo, to check out a restaurant we found over the weekend. It was more formal than I expected... they wanted reservations - something I didn't think about until the last second - and when ordering wine for the both of us, they brought out the whole bottle and a bucket of ice. That's something new for me... I hadn't ever been to a restaurant where they did that. But we had a good time and ate some good food. I spent a little more money than I really wanted to, but seeing to it that I haven't had a reason to celebrate Valentines Day in years - I felt it was justified and deserved, to me and her...
And while I haven't been taking as many pictures with the new camera, I still have some new ones to post in the Gallery. It's been too cold to go out and take pictures lately, so that's the main reason why...
Anyhow, this entry is getting a bit long, so I'm gonna hop off here for now.
Hope everything is going well for everyone!
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