Off to Norway

[kristoff]

Be sure to share with us the weather. & nature.

Good lox (smoked salmon) I believe

Please share your menus.

Moi

Don't know about Norwegian weed.

Lows in the 50s, Highs most days mid 70s. People wearing jackets everywhere -- they think I am crazy because I just wear a T-shirt. It finally rained last nite in Bergen. Lasted about 20 miniutes. No big deal I only had to duck into a hallway in Bryggen for a few minutes. Had a beer and then back to the hotel. It was great.

[kristoff]

In about an hour or so I am heading to the airport. Have to stop at the RoyalBlue office and get a refund of taxes on the stuff I am taking back to the US with me. Then off to Iceland, layover for about an hour, then off to Minnesota. It will be good to get back to Central Daylight Time. Central time and Norway time both show on the phone, which can sometimes be confusing after a quick look. The telemarketer calls didn't stop - of course, if I didn't recognize the number, I did not answer -- saved about 25 cents a minute telling them to F off.

[Valery_V (imported)]

Lows in the 50s, Highs most days mid 70s. People wearing jackets everywhere -- they think I am crazy because I just wear a T-shirt. It finally rained last nite in Bergen. Lasted about 20 miniutes. No big deal I only had to duck into a hallway in Bryggen for a few minutes. Had a beer and then back to the hotel. It was great.

Not hot at all. Pretty cool to flaunt in a t-shirt .

[Paolo]

Here's a repost of an old one from 2009, with apologies to Jesus for the "fire" comment. THAT one aged like milk:

'Tis the season for the brave and the cold.

A temperature scale graduated for people in the Great White North:

Temperatures are in Fahrenheit.

This might make you laugh and feel better!

+50

# New York tenants turn on the heat

# Minnesotans plant gardens

+40

# Californians shiver uncontrollably

# Minnesotans sunbathe

# The Red Nun cavorts in a 2-piece bikini

+35

# Italian cars don't start

+32

# Distilled water freezes

+30

# You can see your breath

# You plan a vacation in Florida

# Politicians begin to worry about the homeless

# Minnesotans eat ice cream

# The Red Nun has extra hot fudge

+25

# Boston water freezes

# Californians weep pitiably

# Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you

# Jesus' (A) wife gets very irritable

+20

# Cleveland water freezes

# San Franciscans start thinking favorably of LA

# Green Bay Packers fans put on T-shirts

+15

# You plan a vacation in CANCUN!!!!!

# Minnesotans go swimming

# (Mind that red 2-piece!)

+10

# Too cold to snow

# You need jumper cables to get the car going

# The Red Nun's habit turns into cardboard and breaks

0

# New York landlords turn on the heat

# Jesus' wife flees the state for Tahiti

-5

# You can hear your breath

# You plan a vacation to Hawaii

# Entire population of the South dies

-10

# American cars don't start

# Too cold to skate

# Jesus' wife sets the house on fire for heat

-15

# You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo

# Miamians cease to exist

# Minnesotans lick flagpoles (this can go a few ways!)

-20

# Cat insists on sleeping in your pajamas with you

# People in Lacrosse think about taking down screens

-25

# Too cold to kiss

# You need jumper cables to get the driver going

# Japanese cars don't start

# Jesus' wife books passage to planet Mercury

# Minnesota Twins head for spring training

-30

# You plan a two-week hot bath

# Minnesotans shovel snow off roof (after putting swimsuits up)

# Half of the lower Midwest dies

# Talula dances nude on I-94

# Riverwind goes into hibernation

# Gem notices that it's wintertime

-38

# Mercury freezes

# Too cold to think

# Minnesotans button top button

# The Nun turns on the heat

-40

# Californians disappear

# Florida glaciates

# Car insists on sleeping in your bed with you

# Minnesotans put on sweaters

-50

# Congressional hot air freezes

# Alaskans close the bathroom window

# Green Bay Packers practice indoors

# Everyone south of the lower border of MN dies

-60

# Walruses abandon Aleutians

# Minnesotans put gloves away, take out mittens

# Boy Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

# Altar boys deliver "holy ice"

-70

# Minneapolis residents replace diving boards with hockey nets

# Ridgeway snowmobilers organize trans-river race to Buffalo

-80

# Polar bears abandon Baffin Island

# Girl Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

# Native Alaskan kids are still out swimming

-90

# Lawyers chase ambulances for no more than 10 miles

# Wisconsinites migrate to Minnesota thinking it MUST be warmer

# Wisconsinites get a big surprise

-100

# Santa Claus abandons North Pole

# Minnesotans pull down ear flaps

-173

# Ethyl alcohol freezes

# The Nun's communion whiskey freezes (she's pissed!)

-445

# Superconductivity

-452

# Helium becomes a liquid

-454

# Hell freezes over

-456

# Illinois drivers drop below 85 MPH on I-90 (must be MN escapees?)

-458

# Incumbent politician renounces a campaign contribution

-460 (Absolute Zero)

# All atomic motion ceases

# Minnesotans agree as to how it's getting a "mite nippy"

# Native Alaskans look at Minnesotans and just shake their heads

[Losethem (imported)]

When I was going to school in Wyoming, I can remember sleeping in my dorm room, with the window open, when it was -20F outside. We're talking cold enough that when you took a morning shower, and didn't dry your hair completely, it would freeze if you went outside.

I'd have the windows open mostly because the school installed radiators at the windows which had two settings, volcano and absolute zero. You barely opened the water valve, you were roasting. Turn it off, and you turned into an ice cube.

I think that dorm has been torn down or is soon to be, now.

[Paolo]

The school where I went from 7th to 11th grade was the same way. The radiators had those exact two settings, and no one wanted to sit anywhere near them, in case Old Faithful went off! No AC either, and teachers would bring their own fans from home to make things tolerable in May and August. We usually got out the last week of May, and went back during the last week of August.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

It used to be if you wanted to be hotter than hell go to Canada in the winter and if you wanted to be colder than hell go to Arizona in the summer. HVAC has gotten much better.