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The batteries, you should know heats speeds up chemical reactions. I was the hero at my family reunion by popping my cousin's camera battery in the toaster oven for a couple seconds. Far out. Schumann "Fairy Tales"? Your post reminds me of why I loved Boston in winter as a child and why I am glad I live in a warmer clime as as adult. I suppose, however, that there is something to be said for practicing while looking out on snow-covered landscape. Oooh, snow! (My California is showing, isn't it?)

Loved this:

>Another observation: They don't appear to be closing my daughter's school today. Bummer! ("Bummer" is not used very much anymore, is it? I'm dating myself. Now everything is "sweet!" The undergrad I'm supervising says, when I tell her to back up these files and burn a CD: "sweet!" My daughter would think a snow day is "sweet!" When, after waiting 25 minutes, not one but two busses finally showed up, people said, "sweet!")

What about "sick!"? I, too, am of the "Bummer" generation and still say it a lot, but I'm all ears to my son's exclamations. And for "sick!" to mean "great/cool/wicked" is just too weird for me. Ah well. It's fun to listen to and track these silly slang words. What would we do without our kids? (Well, for starters, we'd get more violin practice time...)

Ah, I suspected as much. My camera sometimes has a fit during my hikes, claiming to be dead to the world, but I see now that I need to keep it warmer.

I'll just pack a toaster next time.