Welcome Back

Nothing says "welcome back!" quite like a flooded apartment.

Apparently pipe broke upstairs in the wall nearest my bed. Most of the apartment floor was soaked and they tore up the carpet. On top of that, the kitchen circuit went out, so everything in the fridge was bad.

I had fish in the freezer. The strange thing is that it's not in the freezer. I'm not sure what happened to it.

Well, hello. I gave practically no warning that Christmas vacation meant not blogging. Somehow, I just didn't find time.

Tying in to the last post, I said something was wrong on Tuesday the 20th. I'm not sure when it started snowing, and I am equally unsure of whether or not it truly stopped. The piles around the yard are now quite deep and as high as the tractor bucket. There's a lack of places to put the snow.

The wind was pretty strong at times and created this:

Notice the trails that those snow balls made behind the larger ones.

There were clear skies a few days, and I got to listen to people whine about 5 to 10 below.

Just one more way that Fairbanks says, "welcome back!" The sign read 40 below at 5pm and 41 below at 6pm yesterday. I read this morning that it was 45 below in Nenana. When I drove through Anderson, the heat was being sucked from my car. It was blowing hot air out of the vents, but the interior temperature was falling. I don't want to know how cold it was there.

While I was in Anchorage, I completed a few applications, and worked a little. Well, maybe not a little. I think I worked more than I did in October, November, and December combined.

Only now am I getting a relaxing break. (That's only because its too cold to go outside and do anything)

Stay tuned for how the last semester comes and goes...

View from one of my office windows