[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Scott Knitter]

You bet! A standard cocktail to smuggle into football games back then.
Would never get away with that today. Would never stomach that again,
either! <blecch>

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:51 AM Juli Tarsney <juli at tarsney.net> wrote:

> Rum and Tab - really?
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:27 AM Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi from Chiberia! Here cometh the Polar Vortex. <ominous chord>
> >
> > I did trudge the two blocks to our nearest supermarket last night to get
> > some potentially essential provisions: a frozen pizza, mac & cheese,
> > pancake syrup, sliced gouda, and high-fiber cereal. And a freshly made
> > Bosnian cheese-filled pastry thing (like a spinach pie only without the
> > spinach, I guess). Obviously I did not run my shopping list past a
> > nutritionist. But I feel prepared not to leave the house until at least
> > Thursday. Cats have enough food, wet and dry.
> >
> > Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the historic record-low wind chill day. The
> lowest
> > I can remember experiencing is -56 while a student at Michigan State U in
> > East Lansing. There was something so essential I had to brave the wind to
> > walk a block to the Mini-Mart convenience shop. Can't remember what;
> > perhaps generic chicken franks? Rum? Cans of Tab? Anyway, that level of
> > wind chill defies all thicknesses of sweaters and multiple shirts and
> > undershirts. Not to mention the exposed bits of my face. But I did have
> to
> > expose my eyes to see where I was going, at least periodically.
> >
> > Won't be venturing out in that tomorrow. I pray for any who have no
> option:
> > no place to go, or heaven forbid a fire or something that requires
> > evacuation. But the city is doing a great deal to make warm places
> > available: every police station, 66 field houses in city parks, off-duty
> > CTA buses, libraries, our neighborhood's wonderful indoor park/gym (The
> > Broadway Armory), and I'm sure more will open up as needs arise. Some of
> > the kinder bus drivers are amenable in such weather to bend the rules a
> bit
> > and pick people up who wave them down, even if they're not strictly
> > standing at an officially marked bus stop. Actually, I hope they all do
> > this. (Normally, even in torrential rain, a driver will point to the
> stop a
> > block ahead and make the person run to it if they want to board, or wait
> > for the next bus...a few do have more mercy than that, but some draw the
> > line sharply either because they're a-holes or because of safety concerns
> > with nonstandard boarding points.)
> >
> > Anyway, lots of school closures (the Chicago Public Schools are waiting
> > until tomorrow to close...I'm sure they'll get angry responses from
> parents
> > about being open today). Current conditions: 1 degree Fahrenheit; wind
> > chill is minus 16F (what it feels like in the wind).
> >
> > Thank you, Mike, for thinking of us Scotts here in
> > soon-to-be-historically-cold Chicagoland!
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:09 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > >>>It's 3:30 am here, so you might already be in the thick of what's
> > being
> > > predicted for Chicago "tomorrow".  -51 degrees !!!<<<
> > >
> > > I must have misheard.  But still, damn cold!
> > >
> > > M J (Mike) Logsdon.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA