Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler OT - Winter Woes

When did you live in LA? The air quality here is far from terrific, but it's certainly better than it used to be. It also depends greatly on where in LA you are. Riverside and the Valley get bad. The westside is generally pretty good.

Those games were months ago Ray. The Pats had a long win streak going that had to end eventually, and the Eagles run defense then was no where near what it is now. As for more recent play (see last week) the Pats and Eagles are both looking pretty good right now, while the Stillers are lucky to still be playing. Is the Jet's kicker on their payroll, by any chance?

Whatever way it turns out, there is still some good football left for the season. Wonder if the Jets kicker is on the roster next year?

This time of year the air quality is usually very good all across soCal. In the summer, when cool temperatures at the higher elevations trap smog against the mountains (called an "inversion layer" here), the smog can be pretty bad. But it's beautiful now. 80* the past couple days, the mountains all covered in snow, clear blue skies. Very nice.

BTW, spiff, poor air quality in the inland areas is due to all the pollution you coastal people create. We breathe your emissions. Of course, the flip side is all of our treated sewage is released into rivers that fill your aquifers.

btw, the air quality in Pittsburgh is, I think, top five worst in the country even though we've de-industrialized.

I will be at the Steelers/Pats game and given that I will be outside for 10+ hours sub 20 weather, my layers of clothing will include:

1. long underwear, top and bottom
2. wicking sock liner
3. wool socks
4. jeans
5. fleece pants over jeans
6. wicking jogging top under long underwear
7. turtleneck (steelers of course)
8. fleece jacket
9. heavy jacket
10. gloves
11. fleece hat
12. those little feet warmer packets
13. one terrible towel
14. another terrible towel

I believe I have planned appropriately. I'm overdressing because I know alcohol cools body temperature. ;-)

you forgot the Koozie, for your beer.. i would hate for it to freeze in your hand!!

BTW- how did you score tix to that game? you must know someone who knows someone... when the cowboys were making their playoff runs in the early/mid 90's, it was all but impossible to get tix. i mean, people were trading their kids on the black-market for tix.. JK..

bigjohn

I am about to provide some very important input to Riffman here. Please refrain from laughing as this may seem like something along the lines of crawling around on the floor to determine the spot for the best sub placement. It sounds odd, but absolutely works.

Having grown up in Pittsburgh and having spent more than a fair amount of time watching Steelers football in Three Rivers (now the Bills in Buffalo occasionally) during th ewinter, I cam e across the absolute BEST cold weather solution ever manifested by mankind. Those of you who have sat in cold football stadiums have lost feeling in your feet within 1-2 minutes of sitting down. Doesn't matter how many pairs of socks you have on - your puppies are gonna freeze. And you are miserable for the rest of the game. I no longer have that problem. I have a simple two word solution for keeping your feet warm - PAPER BAGS. Laugh if you will, but putting your feet in those grocery-sized paper bags keeps them warm. Period. If you have season tickets, after you do this once, the progression will go like this the first time you do this. Odd looks, snickers, a few remarks, a couple of interested questions. People listen. Next game, a few experiment. By the end of the season, there is an army of (really warm) paper-bagged feet sitting around you in the stadium. If the weather looks to be foul/snowy/wet, I learned to take an extra pair of bags in case the originals disintegrate in the first half. Also, a roll of masking tape is required so you can fold the top of the bag over and tape it down. This just works.

Let the heckling begin here.

By the way - I had a similar 'get dressed" list. Paper Bags was listed as #1. Younse can get them, in quantity, at any Jint Iggle. Go Stilers.

arent the paper bags supposed to go over your heads?



heckling begun...

now, do you mean just put the papaer sack over the outside of your already bundled up feet? over the boots and all?just wanna make sure..

bigjohn

you forgot the really big shoe horn to pry your a$$ into the seat.

I believe him.
Old people just know these kind of things.