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Cyc (Psych) is calling in cyc (sick) to the forum today.

I have the predictable result of painting my bedroom over the weekend.

48 hours after any repetitive work, I get these, for lack of a better word, migraines....but they are not migraines....it some gigantic spasm of my head, face,neck, shoulder, upper back,chest and arm, usually one sided..They tend to make me grumpy, so the best thing to do is shut the blinds, take my 'medicine' and as I do in this neck of the woods, get under 3 quilts, 6 pillows and a yellow dog. (It has to be the yellow one, the other two don't work). Oh and get a bucket near the bed.

We just made the news on the weather channel for breaking the all time record for snow for our area......77 inches and counting....if you live in the mountains or in Buffalo NY, this isn't a big deal, you get that much....it is a bit much for us....altho, not unheard of.

In the last 15 years our winters have been relatively mild, which made this disease tolerable..... I thought perhaps global warming had set in to stay and that this area would take on the climate of Arkansas or Kansas in my lifetime....I guess not. I was even contemplating relocating to Greenland....you know, where it is getting 'green'. Forget it....I think the new ice age has set in due to the Altantic Conveyer belt failing.

At least we did not break the record for cold yet....please God do not let this be the year we do that too.

I do not live in International Falls, nor in MN in general, they are my neighbors....gophers and badgers have a nice friendly rivalry....thought I would share this with you guys as they are not having a particularly easy time of things either.

It gives those of you who are fortunate enough to live south of a line thru Chicago an idea how exponentially worse it gets with each 50 mile north increment....I don't know why it works that way. In the mountains it seems to be every 1,000 feet up you get to a whole new climate range..... Now I would not do well with earthquakes, nor week after week of over 100 degree temps either, so no region has the corner on crummy climate...everybody seems to suffer at one time of the year or another.

Anyway, the walls are starting to talk to me now, so I am headed back to my cavern....I always recover to see a new day.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/...s/cold_weather

Have a good day....I gotta go find my yellow dog and bucket. Quick.