First day of Winter... but it's felt like winter for some time now. The winter solstice, today, means it's the shortest daylight time of the year, and the longest night. Now the daylight hours get longer.But today wasn't too bad so I went for a walk up the Bizz. The storm a couple of days ago dropped the snow but it wasn't deep enough to hinder walking. By looking at the close up snow picture you can see that the snow was not melting much today. I think it got into the mid 30's in the heat of the day. I saw a guy up there on cross country skis, which reminded me that I was going to try to get into that sport. The lack of snow so far this year hasn't been much of a reminder.
Not that I'm complaining, mind you. At least now the weather is more "seasonable" since today is the first day of winter.
Now I have a plan to head back to the desert next month. I think I'm going to go down to Vegas and see my old friend Paul and hopefully get to visit Michelle too. Paul is the closest thing I have to a geek friend. He took me to Fry's when I visited him in 2005 and we were kind of like 2 kids in a candy store. This time I actually need a few things and even though I could easily buy them online, I want to see what they have, how much it costs, be able to pick it up and look at it... you know. Anyway, after that I want to spend a few touristy days in Death Valley and also my favorite... Saline. Oh yeah!
