OOOH What an open sentence. I always thought that streaking a ski jump would be wild.

I think I will stay indoors today - we're having SNOW STORMS over here! Have you had any snow yet? Okay, I know that's a boring 'I will...'. !!!

We seldom get snow that actually stays on the ground. February 1996 is the last major storm that I remember.

I Have always wanted to see a storm hit here like they get at Truckee, CA. 1.5M overnight, and cold enough that it sticks.

I don't like snow storms. I don't like the winter so much at all. It gets too cold and grey, and I can't get used to wearing coats - they're so heavy and uncomfortable - so I just wear a sweater and a scarf, but consequently I freeze my ar$e off every winter.

I grew up with winter, with the temperature at the bottom of the scale -30 C, so, I'm somewhat used to it. You can get by without a coat, just layer your clothes.

I don't even want to THINK about temperatures that low! And I never layer my clothes - it's too damned uncomfortable; like a strait jacket or something. I'd rather freeze to bits than feel like that.

To layer clothes properly, you need loose fitting stretchy clothes for the outside layers. Riette, If it feels like a strait jacket, the outer clothing is one size too small.

No, it's not that. I never wear tight clothes; I always buy a size or two too big, and end up looking like a real frump, but I don't care. The very idea of tight fitting clothes or lots of clothes suffocates me. At least if I freeze, I can still move without things tickling and scratching my skin.

No, Riette, you got that wrong. If you freeze, you don't move

I do! To the nearest warmest object! Or I do everything twice as fast as normally to keep warm. And everyone thinks I'm barking mad!

I was just teasing, Riette. But seriously, have you ever been so cold that you started to lose range of motion in your joints?

No. You have?

Oh yes, Riette. Many times. I used to target shoot in conditions like that. I'd just warm up my hand and shoot again.

That cannot have been fun. Shooting is very difficult when it's cold.

I know that Riette. and you are right, It was very painful. But, it was a supreme challenge.

But was it worth while?

Yes, Riette!!! Anytime I push the envelope, It's worth wile. Finding out again that I can redefine my own limits is worthwile.

Yes, that I can understand, and am able to admire.

THank you Riette, Not many people would have understood that. I kmew you would.

I think I understood you pretty well from the beginning, Tim. You speak a language that makes perfect sense to me.

Yes you did, Riette, Probably because we both speak the same language.

Russian!

peredavaitye mnye!!! Riette!

What does THAT mean?

Riette, I'll have to tell you that verbally.

OH! And what do you think you'll be doing next?

If I said it to you in person, Riette, it would depend on your response.

...log off tonight. Sweet dreams, world!

...eat lunch and get out of this conference before I become another topic (one is quite enough!)

... blow my stuffy nose again.

...finish eating before posting next time. (Sorry about your stuffy nose, Stace!)

...take some hydrocodone and let my brain fuzz down into sleep...

...ah...g'night Nan...!...me too...