It's Arctic Blast 2008 . . .

...at least that is what Fox News has been saying for the past week. Regularly scheduled programs have been canceled so that we can have 24 hour news coverage of the weather. Portland has been hit with a cold spell. It actually dropped to the low 20's. It's been snowing off and on all week. What are we to do??

School has been canceled for the week and people have been strongly urged to stay home from work. Unfortunately, I have one of those jobs where I must show up for work on snowy days. They are big business in healthcare. In x-ray, wrists and tailbones are the hot-ticket items. Because, even though there is not much snow, there is a sheet of ice underneath everything that has made it quite slick.

However, when I'm feeling like the cold weather sucks, I just look up the temperature in Salmon, ID and I feel much better.