Got to get up early, so I'm going to bed early – wonder if I'll sleep?
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at 9:57PM 
I'm going to bed right after I make this post. For me, it is still early - at this moment 9:40 PM. But my plane leaves Anchorage at 6:10 AM, which means I need to leave here by 4 AM. And I need to take a shower before I go. So I'm going to bed. I probably will spend a lot of time lying awake, wondering why I bothered to even go to bed early. But I'm going to try anyway. I'm very tired, so maybe. I just hope Jim behaves himself and doesn't raise a ruckus tonight. He's usually pretty good at night and even helps me sleep, but every now and then, he raises a ruckus.
It was a rainy day today, and tonight is a rainy night. I could encounter my first subfreezing temperatures tomorrow. When last I checked, the temperature in Barrow was 32° F, or 0°C. The humidity was 89%. It snowed in Deadhorse today. When people try to belittle the cold of Alaska, they always like to say, "well your cold is a dry cold." Yes, our cold is a dry cold --- when it's bitter cold, because bitter cold air cannot hold moisture - but bitter cold is... bitter cold. But when it is just modestly cold, then it can be pretty darn humid, too.
We get it both ways.
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It was 99 in CO yesterday. Set a record. It is to be 90 today..."Cool down"! We have new snow on Loveland Pass and in 38 days they will start making snow on the ski slope. Hate these high temps, but dread the thought of winter coming. We too have dry air, but cold is cold. It gets in the 100's in AZ, but it's a "dry heat"! Hot is hot, but humidity makes it miserable. Normally by the end of July we are brown everywhere. It is still very green here. It has been very humid here this summer, is spite of all the fires. We have terrible mud slides now when it rains from all the fire damage. Maybe the climate deniers would like to come and help clean up the mud and shovel the many feet of snow this winter. Huge snowfalls! Don't forget to pack some warm clothes! Hope Jim didn't raise a ruckus last last night!