I talked to my parents yesterday in Southern Illinois( by St. Louis) and they said it got up to 70deg.  Then in one hour the temp dropped 40deg and they got tornadoes, hail, sleet, then snow all in one hour.  Can you say crazy??  Up here it made it up to 42 yesterday and then all $%%^ hit the fan.  Can't really tell it even snowed because the 50mph winds blew it all away.
     Hey Lawrence, how are you liking this fine weather we're having??

Well, I wanted to go out for lunch about 30 min ago and my truck wouldn't start.  Dam starter shot the $%%$ on me and now i'm stuck at work.  Last week the antifreeze froze up in the heater core of my wifes car.  Turns out southern Illinois V dub dealers don't mix the antifreeze for negative temps.  I checked it and it was only good for +5 deg.  At first I didn't know why it was overheating and I changed the thermostat out in the driveway with -4 deg temps (not wind-chill).  It wasn't the thermostat, and then I figured the water pump so I changed the timing belt and a few other things while I was elbow deep in the engine bay trying to change the water pump.  This time I moved into the garage, but it was still below freezing in there with no heat.  I had to drink my beer fast not because I was worried about it getting warm, but to keep it from freezing.;-)  Nothing like breaking me into Wisconsin life the right way huh?

4:30 and still have sun sunshine! come on break up!

Man I can't believe it's staying that warm in Texas.  Hey Waynekoe, are those some C-17'S in the background of your picture.  Are you Iron working on a base?

Man, you guys don't know what cold is.  Where I grew up, it was so cold, if the thermometer had been just a little bit longer, we would all have been dead.  I remember on school mornings, I would get up, put on my skates, and go to the bathroom.  When I turned the shower on, it would hail.  I'd hurry to get dressed, grab my flannel notebook, and head out the door.  I had to kick a hole in the air just to get outside.  If it was foggy, the fog would freeze and I had to tunnel my way to school.  At school, all the kids were telling these outrageous and incredible lies, hoping their pants would actually catch on fire.  Nobody threw spitballs because someone could have been killed.  On the way home from school, it would sometimes take me two hours to walk one block, because my shadow kept freezing to the sidewalk.  I tried to pick it up so I could keep on going, but it shattered.  One day I thought I had a rock rattling around in my boot, but when I stopped and took it off, it was just one of my toes.  I used to go out of my way and walk by the park on the way home just to watch the squirrels throwing themselves at an electric fence.  Snowflakes would freeze in the air.  Sometimes the squirrels would jump from a tree onto the snowflakes, and then leap onto the electric fence.  When I'd get bored with the smell of fried squirrel fur, I'd start walking again.  Once I saw a hitchhiker holding up a picture of his thumb.  When I'd get to our driveway, I'd grab the mail out of the box on the way in, but it would always break before I got to the house with it.  We couldn't read our newspaper until it thawed out.  The publishers started making up the news and printing the papers a day early so we could read them on time.  Sometimes they were right.  When I finally walked through the door, I couldn't speak.  My words just froze in mid-air.  I had to gather up all the sentences, take them to the fireplace, and thaw them out before anyone could hear me.  Mom always had chores waiting for me when I got home.  She'd tell me to take out the garbage, but it didn't want to go.  I'd get mad at it and make an ugly face, and it really did stay that way.  I guess mom was right after all.  At dinner time, she used to put frozen pizza in the oven.  25 minutes later we ate frozen pizza.  Sometimes, flames would freeze in the fireplace.  Mom would break them off, grind them up, and we'd use them for seasoning on our frozen pizza.  For dessert, we had Jello crunch.  I could eat all the ice cream I wanted to eat, as fast as I wanted to eat it, and still not get brain freeze.  If I got sick, mom would give me either a block of chicken soup or a Nyquil popsicle before bed.  If I peed my jammies, Dad would have to chisel them off me.  When it was bedtime, I got to stay up late because I always had to wait for the pee in my jammies to thaw out from the night before.  I remember I used to go to sleep by candlelight, but one night the flame on the candle froze, so I threw it out the window.  When it thawed out in the spring, it burnt the barn down.  Aahh.  The memories of my childhood.