Effin' cold

[thisnewday]

It's really effin' cold in central New York this morning. I discovered this when jumped out of bed, unbolted the front door, then stumbled barefoot across the front porch to open that door to let my daughter in at 4 AM.

She was out there because she spent the night at her boyfriend's house and had to be dropped off because he had to report for snow crew this morning and she wouldn't have a ride to work from his place. Which means that I have to be up again at 6:30 to take her to work and then again at 7:30 to pick my wife up from her overnight shift at the hospital.

So, you see, it all makes sense. Except the part where the clumps of snow and ice, left by yesterday's traffic across the front porch, felt like hot coals...