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[shootingstar]

Near freezing temperatures and persistent rain for several hours, is harder (for me) to deal with....vs. no rain and much colder temperatures ie. -20 degrees C.

[ny biker]

Near freezing temperatures and persistent rain for several hours, is harder (for me) to deal with....vs. no rain and much colder temperatures ie. -20 degrees C.

Both of those situations is hard for me to deal with!.

[Crankin]

The rain wouldn't be a situation for me... because I would never go out and ride in the rain, if I could avoid it! That said, I have ridden in torrential thunderstorms (my Finger Lakes tour) and other, lighter rain, and there is no part of it I can tolerate. Even if it's warmer out, riding in the rain just opens up the chance for bad things happening.

[ny biker]

I can handle light rain, if necessary, but it makes me cranky. Of course I don't like wind either. I prefer perfect conditions.

[Crankin]

Meh, we just had a power outage that lasted almost 2 hours. I had just started roasting some broccoli, and was about to start making salmon burgers. DH is at a late meeting, so was looking forward to relaxing with a glass of wine and dinner, alone. I know it's a first world problem, so I ate some of the half cooked broccoli, and when I couldn't wait any longer, I made a hummus, tomato, and avocado wrap. Was just about to get into bed and read by the light of a flashlight, when it went back on. Thankfully, it was 72 degrees today, but the temperature is going down and it's windy. That's probably why the power went out. Well, it happens so rarely, I shouldn't complain.

[emily_in_nc]

I feel your pain, Crankin. I am not a fan of the power going out. In the place we stayed here in Playa last winter, that happened with some frequency. For some reason it was often just our half block. I think there must have been some flaky piece of equipment. I hated it. We have only had it out for a couple of minutes since we got back down here (and are in a different unit) this time.

More first world problems here, though: today we had no hot water and half our cable stations were out. So, I had to text our building maintenance guy (who only speaks Spanish) twice on the water situation. I had google translate going on my laptop and was texting him in the other hand on my phone (not easy b/c it's a dumb phone). He did fix it, but it was inconvenient b/c it took hours, and we had laundry in the machine half-filled with water when we figured out that we had no hot water, so it kinda delayed that a bit!

The cable problem, I was able to do an online chat for and even requested and got English speakers two out of three times, but NONE of them helped with the problem! I finally got an answer from a local expat forum; it required putting in a "secret" code to reset the box back to factory defaults, and all the channels came back. So, trying to straighten that out took several hours.

It's always something!

[Pax]

We're going to our first Halloween costume party in years tonight. We decided to dress up as tourists, seemed appropriate as we are FL newbies.