Of Snow Snot and Geysers

Yes, it's still cold. -15 fahrenheit and holding! Earlier this morning, it was -19 with wind chill. Wind has blown away all the clouds, so it's amazingly sunny (and warm-looking, from inside a building).

Here's how cold it is.... Remember some posts back I showed you a geyser/black hole/water fountain? In case you didn't remember, here it is, about a week ago:
Here it was two days ago:
If you're wondering why the photo is so light, you can blame my leaky nose, watering in sympathetic response to the arctic air blowing ever so roughly in my face, up my nose, and into my sinus cavities.

Aaaand, this afternoon:
The ice is slowly creeping in, the fountain now resembles a giant white pimple with free-flowing white pus.


Tonight, Pepper and I are heading to an STC meeting, so hopefully, there'll be some interesting pix of the Pufferbelly and Kent State.

Newsflash: Roomie is rapidly becoming disconcerting. Last night, while chomping noisily on dinner, part two (from a recipe unceremoniously and clumsily ripped off from one of my dinners), he started listening to music on his notebook, using a pair of headphones. Which would have been fine, because I've sorta gotten used to smelling his weird cooking. What made it super-bad was:

• the extremely loud music
• the extremely loud music that I could hear from his headphones, while he had it on
• the extremely goosebump-raising-in-a-bad-way shoulder-rolling-dancing-while-sitting-on-a-chair movement
• the whispered bad yodel-singing he did while listening and gyrating to said music (which, taken out of context, could easily be the soundtrack for a horror movie featuring demonic whispers)
• I was trying to concentrate on watching an episode of CSI: Las Vegas
• He actually asked me what was going on in that episode, in the last 3 minutes.
  

Gee, Thanks.