Frigid

We’re having a cold snap here in Calgary. As I write, it’s -28 and supposed to drop to -31 overnight. The temperature dropped on the weekend and it will stay below -20 until next weekend, according to the forecast. It’s cold enough that we’ve gotten a Extreme Cold warning from Environment Canada and Nakiska is actually closed today and tomorrow. I sure wouldn’t want to be a lift operator at -30, that’s for sure.

I suppose it’s a good time for it: on Friday evening I was under the weather, and that continued through Saturday. It was just a headache and tiredness and I rested and by Sunday noon I was feeling better. I guess I fought it off, whatever it was. So far no one else in the family has been affected.

Miranda’s first exam is tomorrow. She has four exams: two this week and two next week. She only has to go to the school for the exams themselves, and the third week of exams she doesn’t have any, so she gets a week off. Lucky girl! I hope she does well on her tests.

I’ve uploaded a new header picture for the site! Ian took this panorama just before the New Year when he was out shopping with Tammy and Miranda at the Beacon Hill shopping centre. It’s looking east towards the airport from just behind the Best Buy. 📷 He also successfully installed his first Minecraft mod yesterday: Mr. Crayfish’s Furniture Mod. He’s been bugging me for years to install mods for him, and I guess he finally got frustrated enough with me to figure it out for himself. Parenting win! 😆

Other than that, things are pretty quiet around here. I’m a bit low about Neil Peart dying a week ago (it was only made public on Friday on my way home). Not that I am the world’s biggest Rush fan, but still. Losing him to cancer makes me sad, especially knowing what the guy went through in life. RIP Neil. 🥁