> "and had to walk to school in the dark and walk home after school in the > dark"
And I expect it was uphill both ways and you lived in a shoe box? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo === > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 14:26:13 +0000 > From: jch...@ussco.com > Subject: Re: Boston - what a place > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Shannon > > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:04 AM > > > > > When I was in Boston in August and walked up to Fenway, it was bloody > > > hot. I mean seriously hot. And > > the footy was just played in sub-zero. > > > > I live outside of Boston and am used to it (and the "sub-zero" would have > > been wind chill, not > > temperature). When we lived in Minnesota in the mid-1990s my mother visited > > twice. The first time it > > was -15F and the second time +95F. That's a 110 degree difference. She > > couldn't believe it. > > Dad got assigned to Ladd AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska in the early 1950s. We > arrived Fairbanks on July 4, 1953, and the temp was over +90F. Six months > later, in January 1954 (don't remember exact date) it was -62F. I was in > second grade and had to walk to school in the dark and walk home after school > in the dark on that (and many another, similar) day. :-) > > -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN