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   Bob La Londe to Jim Wilkins   
   Re: Speaking Of Welding - The Job, Big A   
   19 Feb 25 17:18:27   
   
   From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 2/19/2025 4:24 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vp5b4q$2d5v7$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> I've heard people say you can dress for cold, but you can't dress for   
   >> heat. Well, that's kind true, but...   
   >   
   >> The thing I never learned to manage was hot and humid.   
   >   
   > -------------------------------   
   > I've found soft and flexible warm clothing, mostly at Walmart. I'm   
   > wearing a sweat top that doubles for pajamas for its hood, a quilted   
   > shirt and a pile lined hoodie, plus lined pants. In this I'm comfortable   
   > at 60F napping and 55F moving around a little. My mother's olde New   
   > England side of the family tolerated cold, she'd leave the thermostat at   
   > 60F until my father got up. My sister doesn't mind it much either. I   
   > think we have a little Viking ancestry from the Norman Conquest.   
   >   
   > Despite our northerly latitude NH sometimes gets Gulf of Amexica heat   
   > and humidity, daytime highs pushing 100F and 75+ lows at night, the dew   
   > point. Florida hurricanes often reach us and Hurricane Katrina passed   
   > over us as a rain storm. I can eventually get used to it, even Atlanta   
   > summer climate when visiting my father's family. In the Air Corps my   
   > father was a company commander, my mother's brother his top sergeant.   
   >   
   > I was downtown in Concord NH the day the bank thermometer showed 104F,   
   > our record.   
   >   
      
   Okay, now we are all now officially old.  We're sitting around talking   
   about the weather.   
      
      
      
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