{"id":210,"date":"2012-01-11T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dealersinhope.wordpress.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-02-19T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:42:52","slug":"cold-as-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Cold as Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a light and somewhat funny topic\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I lived the first half of my life in Montreal and the second in Quebec City, but each year it becomes more difficult to just think about winter.<br \/>\nOk, I\u2019ll say things as they really are: <span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u201c<em><strong>I HATE WINTER!!!<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong>WHY I HATE WINTER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vision-tpl.com\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dscn1751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-224\" alt=\"DSCN1751\" src=\"http:\/\/vision-tpl.com\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dscn1751-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dscn1751-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dscn1751.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I hate seeing nature dying in October, when all the plants and flowers start to look great with a decent size, they freeze and die.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like when my boogers freeze immediately when I step outside. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nI hate that my car become so filthy after just 10 minutes on the road that I can\u2019t even open the doors without getting my fingers all dirty.<br \/>\nI hate having to put a coat, boots, and a hat, just to go outside for 10 seconds to get something.<br \/>\nI hate shoveling and snow blowing and become all sweaty inside my accoutrement but can\u2019t even open my coat to vent the boiler without catching a terrible cold.<br \/>\nI also hate the snow plow man because he seems to waits for me to finish cleaning my driveway, get inside, have all my sweaty clothes off and as soon as I\u2019m in the shower I hear his truck filling back my driveway with dirty heavy packed snow.<br \/>\nI hate having all my house windows closed for months.<br \/>\nI could go on almost indefinitely, but I\u2019ll stop the list here, I think you got the point.<\/p>\n<p>No, it\u2019s not all beautiful scenery with white landscape unless you live in a really remote and rural place. As soon as you have more than a dozen cars passing in your street, the road becomes a nasty grey to almost brown-black slushy frozen ugly mud.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong>BATTLE OF COLD vs HOT<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThere is also a perpetual battle between the winter lovers and haters.<br \/>\nWhat I have to struggle with every winter are winter lovers\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019m always trying to make them understand why I can\u2019t love winter by doing some winter activities.<br \/>\nOften they throw at me this kind of suggestion:<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> <em>\u201cIf you would do some winter sports or activities, winter would be more fun.\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> <em> My answer is simple: \u201dHow can I like doing winter activities when I hate this season in the beginning?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I do believe that by doing several activities, in the long term it could reduce my hatred for cold, humidity and snow.<br \/>\nMy problem is that I don\u2019t want to like it!<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not like I have no choice to live here.<br \/>\nI have 2 clear choices; I learn to like winter or I go where there no winter. I\u2019ll take option B.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s now my ultimate goal in life. Building a business I can operate anywhere on the globe and find a nice and warm place to live.<br \/>\nThen I\u2019ll return to Canada for couple of weeks to visit my family and friends until I am no longer able to bear the depressing weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong>QUEBEC CLIMATE<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a running joke here to say that some year we\u2019re lucky to have 2 weeks of summer; the rest of the summer is often windy, rainy and cool.<br \/>\nOne of the characteristic here is the constant humidity; we rarely have real comfortable or dry climate.<br \/>\nIn summer hot days, there\u2019s no wind and more than 80% humidity. As soon as the humidity drops in summer, it becomes chilly.<br \/>\nAutumn and spring are in general very humid, cool and windy.<br \/>\nWinter is also really humid, it seems to pierce through our clothes and body, when we have dry days, it gets so cold we can\u2019t let any skin not hidden. It often reaches -5F.<br \/>\nWe frequently have 20 degrees variation in 24 hours. No surprise why everybody get sick.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><strong>DISEASES SEASON<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWinter is the season of diseases.<br \/>\nAs soon as we reach December, more than half the people are sick with cold and flu.<br \/>\nIn public places, all we can ear is coughing.<br \/>\nThe sudden changes in temperatures are the main cause. Then, it spread like wildfire because every public places, work places and houses are so hermetically sealed that it becomes germ nests.<br \/>\nThere are also many persons who suffer from allergies due to inadequately ventilated buildings.<\/p>\n<p>So what would you choose if you were me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vision-tpl.com\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/choice-e1361328114721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-215\" alt=\"choice\" src=\"http:\/\/vision-tpl.com\/dealersinhope\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/choice-e1361328114721.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"><em><br \/>\nBtw&#8230; It&#8217;s 5 degrees\u00a0Fahrenheit\u00a0right now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong>Thanks for reading, Patric J. 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Ok, I\u2019ll say things as they really are: \u201cI HATE WINTER!!!\u201d WHY I HATE WINTER I hate seeing nature dying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,20,65,79,88,95,106,110],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-2","tag-choice","tag-cold","tag-montreal","tag-quebec","tag-snow","tag-summer","tag-warm","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3c0Pc-3o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}