{"id":1064,"date":"2008-12-05T22:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T03:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:22:46","slug":"killer-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Killer Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I don’t like about this Indiana climate is its misappropriation of water. I guess Lake Michigan must have had a slight humidifying effect, because the air is so dry in my room. It might have something to do with the phenomenon I observe every morning: the lower pane of the window accumulating moisture that Zach and I have collectively transpired overnight. <\/p>\n

And with the advent of sub 255° outside air, we now have frost. Not just scrap-off-with-a-fingernail frost, it’s centimeter-thick The-Day-After-Tomorrow killer frost that I tried to chip at with a quarter before giving up and going to class.<\/p>\n

frosty window<\/p>\n

Of course the aluminum of the window frame would have a low specific heat. Any chem major could have deduced that.<\/p>\n

Now, I’ve never been a big water drinker (which probably explains the subcutaneous ischemia in my hands) but from now on, I have to keep a water bottle close at hand when I sleep. Otherwise, I’ll find myself woken up by dehydration with nothing I can do about it. <\/p>\n

hanging bottle<\/p>\n

The little shelf on my bedloft for the alarm clock has no room for a top heavy bottle of water. So I improvised. I bought one of the high-capacity Purdue bottles and hung it from the frame with a lanyard and some of those wrist bands that Target gave us in case we ever felt like being corporate whores. Whenever I wake up, I can just pull the lanyard up and take a swig. Of course, I have to watch out for the straw coiled up inside that always pops out and hits me in the eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing I don’t like about this Indiana climate is its misappropriation of water. I guess Lake Michigan must have had a slight humidifying effect, because the air is so dry in my room. It might have something to do with the phenomenon I observe every morning: the lower pane of the window accumulating moisture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommy.lardbucket.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}