What was 2008 about?

Is it too early to look back at 2008 and try to figure out what it was all about? Nah, let's take a look at the first text posts of each month and see if it adds up to something. ( Read more... )

2008: the year in Picture Posts

January.

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Noticing the year 12/08/08: Snow and cold (not at the same time)

Yesterday we had a perfect first snow. Why was it perfect? It came the first week of December (not October) on a day I wasn't working, it was light and fluffy and picturesque, and it was gone by the afternoon. It was replaced with bitter cold. I've promised not to complain about the weather. Is calling 14 degrees f "bitter" a complaint? I think it's a reasonable objective description. Unless the soles of your feet are covered with thick white fur, 14 degrees is just plain bitter, baby.

Suffice it to say, this is New England, and on Wednesday it will be 60 degrees and pouring rain.

I posted to damnportlanders earlier, explaining that it got this cold "several times per winter" in Boston (I was saying that people say that it gets cold in Portland, and asking if it got THAT cold). Alexis took major umbrage at the word "several."
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