Perpetual Thursday (PT) is a log of Patrick J. Simmons' thoughts, ideas, opinions, commentary, doings, and so so forth. In short, rambling, ranting, nonsense, and bunk.
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Depending on where you live, the you may or may not have warm, sunny summers and snowy winters. You could have warm winters or snowy summers, depending on your relative location to the equator, among other things. However, in the beautiful state Indiana, summers are generally warm and winters generally cold. By cold I mean, cold enough for snow. Snow is a good thing. Not only is it very pretty, but it allows for many winter activities, such as building snowmen, having snowball fights, sledding, skiing, and snow tubing.
This winter is my third working at Perfect North Slopes. I don't work in the skiing area (though I do ski); I work in the snow tubing area. (Snow tubing is like sledding, just in an inner tube - the tubes at Perfect's have hard, plastic bottoms and felt covers on top for added comfort and speed, as well as a smother ride.) Thing thing is, though, for skiing, or snow tubing, or even snow boarding, you generally need snow. Now Perfect's has a system to blow man-made snow onto the hills, but it still needs to be cold enough for the snow not to melt (in effect, blowing water onto the hills).
This winter, though, has been unseasonably warm. We've had afternoon's in the mid-50's (Fahrenheit, about 12 degrees Celsius). It is completely insane. Here is a current weather report for Lawrenceburg, Indiana, home of Perfect North:
Note: This is a constantly updating weather report, so it could be colder (and I hope it is) sooner. When I posted this, though, it was 43 degrees Fahrenheit (7 Celsius).
Fortunately, Perfect's seems to be holding on. Which means that I've worked 9-to-5 shifts three days last week, 9-to-4 shifts every day the week before and yesterday, and will hopefully work then tomorrow and Friday (today I was feeling sick), as well as a 4:30 to 1:00 night shift Saturday, provided the weather holds.
Now for the joke: at the Tubing Park there is a big clock that displays the current time and temperature. However, the attached thermometer has been getting some rather odd readings, as it is apparently not set up correctly. By 'odd' I mean 'slightly high'. By 'slightly' I mean 'very'. True, it is rather warm for this time of year, but 530 degrees Fahrenheit?
And now, the punch line: Maybe there really is global warming!
Now is an appropriate time to laugh.
Well, I know it was long and kind of pointless, but there it is, the state of my working life and the weather round' here. Until my next post, in which I will probably have something much more interesting to say, may all your Thursdays be Perpetual.
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