{"id":2348,"date":"2008-12-24T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T07:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2008-12-25T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T19:36:48","slug":"the-snow-is-almost-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"The snow is almost melting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my back is so tired it sometimes hurts. It wasn&#8217;t because of the workout, as <del>hideous<\/del>strenuous as it was, but more likely because of the shoveling of the wet, soggy snow. As an Oregonian I know that the rain will melt the snow, but as a chemist and engineer I also know that the maximal heat transfer will occur when the rain is passing over the snow and not just pooled around it. It&#8217;s not so much that we&#8217;re running out of food and that I have to drive anywhere, but mainly that I&#8217;m going stir crazy and I thought it made more sense to be outside moving the snow around than watching yet more movies. I did, however, finish watching all the episodes of <b>Firefly<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s Xmas Eve and I&#8217;m watching one of my three (unless there are more) seasonal movies. <b>Love, Actually<\/b> tonight and maybe <b>Comfort and Joy<\/b>. Tomorrow I have <b>A Christmas Carol<\/b>. I was asked when I open presents, and really the only presents I buy are for my sister, brother-in-law, and my mom. I went in with my mom and brother-in-law on my sister&#8217;s present and she got to open it after the arctic winds came in a couple of weeks ago. I still haven&#8217;t gotten my brother-in-law anything because he hasn&#8217;t told me what he wants. Actually my sister said she emailed me, and told me she&#8217;d email me again, but so far NOTHING. And, in return, I didn&#8217;t get the cossack outfit I need.<\/p>\n<p>In any case Happy Holidays, and I can only hope for happiness and world peace. I&#8217;ll be watching movies. That is, if I can still see.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/suntory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/suntory-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"suntory\" title=\"suntory\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2349\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my back is so tired it sometimes hurts. It wasn&#8217;t because of the workout, as hideousstrenuous as it was, but more likely because of the shoveling of the wet, soggy snow. As an Oregonian I know that the rain will melt the snow, but as a chemist and engineer I also know that the maximal heat transfer will occur when the rain is passing over the snow and not just pooled around it. It&#8217;s not so much that we&#8217;re running out of food and that I have to drive anywhere, but mainly that I&#8217;m going stir crazy and I thought it made more sense to be outside moving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The snow is almost melting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}