Mother Freakin' Nature Let's preface this with saying that I live in the South-Eastern United States and this in no way compares to the mid-west, North, Canada, etc. Let's also keep in mind that this time last week, once a person stepped foot from the comfort of their home, office, restaurant, etc., the temperature was in the high 60's - low 70's.

I felt the chill in the air even before I opened the door to leave for work this morning. Luckily there was no ice on the windshield of the car. Had there been, it would have involved an ice scraper and the defrost. This would only take about an extra 10 minutes, but would have led to my inevitable duel with the corporate timeclock.

My automobile is equipped with a digital readout that registers the temperature outside of the car. Well, when I got in the car this morning, there was no readout. In iridescent green, the only thing that I saw where there should have been a number somewhere in the 40-50 range, was the word "ice".

"Ice". It was so cold this morning that the computer inside my vehicle did not register temperature. Apparently Ford did not count on it getting below 20 and the computer was not programmed with a proper response. As I already stated, there was no ice, but my car felt like telling me that there was indeed "ice".

Once I actually got moving, the readout changed to 20. One thing that I have noticed about the temperature readout in my car is that it is consistently about 5-7 degrees higher than what the actual temperature tends to be. So that means it was actually 15 degrees.

There's a reason I live in the south. A reason I moved from the North. A reason I won't be moving back to the North. I'm not a big fan of weather that can be described as "chilly", "frigid", or as of today "ice".

This is more of a shock based on my earlier statement that this time LAST WEEK, it was in the 70's!

Screw it. I'm moving to Mexico.  ¶ 8:30 AM