Replying to a message of Roger Nelson to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> Right now it's somewhere below zero, I haven't looked - and
 BA>> I think my outside thermometer is frozen anyway; it didn't
 BA>> register below +10F yesterday (Tuesday) and the recorded
 BA>> high temperature yesterday was +5F.

 RN> The thermometer on my digital clock shows 70F.  When I began
 RN> this missive, it was 69.5F.  I am only really comfortable
 RN> in this room when the the temp is precisely 74.5F.

That inside or outside temps?  Inside temp here is 65F.

FWIW this past week not counting this (Saturday) morning we've
tied two record lows and set a new one.  This morning's low is
supposed to be on the order of -25F but didn't feel like it when
I was outside a short while ago; the old record low for this date
is -14F, so if it did get down to -25F that's another new record.

According to KMA, the winter of 1936 set record low temperatures
on five consecutive days that remained record lows for over sixty years.

 RN> I should live in Hawaii, but can't afford to.

Too humid.  I've been through there at least five times, never did stay
more than a couple of hours though.

 RN>  I've had to
 RN> deny moving to Canada at the behest of my friends there
 RN> because I couldn't take the subzero temps.

It's not so much the cold - apparently it's colder here than in many places
in Canada and Alaska, it's the wind (which has for the most part been nearly
nonexistent this week - although it did pick up enough to move a lot of snow
around on Thursday).

 RN> I hope you are wrong about Medicare Part D.  I can buy my
 RN> Rx's cheaper from various places and the monthly payment to
 RN> Medicare for Rx coverage would far exceed my out-of-pocket
 RN> costs at the present time.

I have no doubt about that.  Right now Tricare (or the Air Force) is
paying for my eight prescriptions.  I'll probably go broke real quick
if I have to start paying even part of that (Plavix alone is $475.00
for 90 pills, that's over $150/month for that alone).

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