Warming.

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It is above zero, has to be.  Has been for a day or two.  There is still plenty of snow down.  But paths have turned into puddle-ridden ways.  All good.  I will say this has been a solid winter.  Plenty of snow, when it snowed... a bit colder than usual with fewer breaks, if not the coldest or snowiest, probably a more severe mix?  I mean, in severely cold or snowy winters we get more of whichever, but not more of both.  This winter we got more of that mix if not as extreme as either extreme.

Unusual?  Only in that every year is different.  If I saw five winters the same, then I would have some wonder.  Or if every year was worse, to the point of infrastructure breaking, or becoming like Florida, then I'd worry.  Iowa, here, everywhere I have lived, while summers don't change all that much, winters really do differ.  I remember horrible, easy, and middling winters my whole life.  I personally think some of the coldest winters were in the 1970's.  They have revised temperatures is all.  They are so busy trying to make the readings suggest what they want, they can't read real temperatures anymore.  Head up ass syndrome.  Sodomites of an extreme sort.

The cold got to me.  It broke me.  Some of it is just environmental seepage, some of it is a weakness to it.  That is getting worse each year.  Actually that makes me far more empathetic to my elders.  I know, if it hits me this way...  Then again, if they can still work...  If it weren't for what is disability I...  I wouldn't make it.  Do you know what the streets are like?  Probably not.  But for someone who can't control sleep, goes nearly comatose occasionally.  High heat, the cold, fast changes in the weather, exertion of various levels, too much, or too little food, and any combination can cause near catatonia.  Even if I could escape humans, animals would get into me.  Feed on me.  It isn't a safe world out of doors.

The warming is helping.  It would take more, for longer.  But I feel a bit better.  Ducks first thing.  A timer for the cats tending and a shower.  Then back to some work today?  Hopefully.  I almost feel alive and awake.  But I thought that when I got confused about the appointments.  No real clues, probably, but I feel better.  Kidneys and liver are only in mild pain as well.  Not sure if they, or I, am numb though.