I Love Spring; I Hate Spring

Why does this beautiful weather have to come at the craziest time of the academic year?

So much sunshine outside. So much work to keep me inside.

It's Great to Live in Texas When ...

... you click on CNN.com headlines such as "March roars in with deadly storms," and the dateline is Columbus, Ohio, where I used to live.

There's a nice photograph of policemen on horses directing traffic in the snow.

Wow.

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UPDATE: 2:08 p.m. Here's a fresh photo of a foot of snow from Dublin, Ohio, courtesy of brand strategist and should-be Ph.D. student Tim Laubacher. Thanks, Tim!

It's January 5, People

... and the high temperature in Lubbock was 70.5 degrees, according to my backyard thermostat.

Sweet.

Late November Weather on the Desert

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- Happiness is riding your bicycle in the mountains on the day before Thanksgiving while wearing a short-sleeved shirt.

Riding with your dad makes it even more fun.

Ah, the Warm Heat of October

I'm sitting here watching ESPN. Reporter Tim Kurkjian just reported live from Boston's Fenway Park.

He was wearing a leather jacket on top of his suit coat.

What? It's 87 darned degrees here.

I headed to Weather.com. It's 56 degrees in Boston with a 21 mph wind.

Ah, fall.

Lubbock, Texas, Gets Pretty Cool Clouds

Weather Hits Just Keep on Comin'

Lightning map courtesy of Vaisala Lightning Explorer.

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We have exactly three days left to finish this experiment. We need every possible participant.

And the weather keeps killing me.

Above is the current lightning activity in the United States. Note how the entire *$&%ing country is lightning-free.

Except for West Texas. We've got plenty of lightning.

We obviously cannot have participants connected to the physiology equipment during thunderstorms. So we have to let them run through the experiment without the physiological data, which is what I really need.

Ugh.

Seriously? A Tornado? Today?

Ever since Friday the 13th, my life has been a freakshow.

• We got stuck at Burlington, Vt., Denny's with no taxi.
• Real Vermont maple syrup is terrible compared to Mrs. Buttersworth.
• I witnessed a hit-and-run car accident and police chase.
• The fire alarm went off at my hotel at 3 a.m.
• I was denied a tour of Ben & Jerry's, one of my goals in life.
• Seriously, I went all the way to Vermont in part to see the darned ice cream place, and the factory was closed, and I got one tiny scoop in a cup because I was yelled at and told the tour buses were leaving without us.
• The same thing happened at the Vermont cheese place 10 minutes later.
• We flew out of Vermont and dodged a major snowstorm by 15 minutes.
• Somehow I made instant friends with every eccentric person that I walked by at three airports.

And now I return to a physiology study that must be run by the end of the semester. And we cannot collect physiological data in a storm. The 1 p.m. subject no-showed. Lucky thing. I looked outside about a half hour later, and it looked like nightfall.

There was a tornado warning. Hail was coming down like crazy. We had to go to the basement.

So much for 20% chance of isolated thunderstorms, eh?

I am afraid to get out of bed tomorrow.

Off to Vermont

It will be sunny and in the upper 70s this weekend in Lubbock.

Instead I'll be in the snow of Vermont for the American Academy of Advertising meeting.

Let the good times roll.

Spring in Lubbock Is Nice

When your back yard has this on March 10, how can you complain?

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It was in the upper 70s in Lubbock today. In early March! We spent the day having a cookout in the back yard.

This will never, ever get old.

Spring Weather Never Gets Old

It was 74 degrees today in Lubbock.

First week of February.

Ahhhh.