Thanks. I'm almost that old
Boy O boy is it cold! It's already -7 F here in the 'burbs of Mpls. My buddy is up north this weekend, near Bemidji, and it's already -15 F there, going to -32 F tonight. That's just a bit cool for me. Unless of course I'm in a fish house on the lake.

Crikey!! I froze my butt off today. The high temp today was a balmy of 2 degrees above zero Fahrenheit. Had to be much colder where you are Sarge.
Just pored myself a dram of Glenlivet French Oak Reserve 15 year to warm the bones. Going down to -12 F tonight..... A warming trend is in sight though. 35 ABOVE!!! zero F for a high on Sunday. For now,
"A WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 9 AM THURSDAY MORNING
FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.
WIND CHILL READINGS DURING THIS PERIOD WILL BE BETWEEN 25 BELOW
AND 35 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND WIND WILL
COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST
BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU
VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. KEEP EXTRA
BLANKETS AND CLOTHING IN YOUR CAR IF YOUR ARE TRAVELING."
Global warming...I wish!!

It's -10 F with a 10 to 20 MPH wind with higher gusts. That's a wind chill of -30 or colder.
This is cold that just hurts when you walk outdoors.
For a college elective my boy is taking a snow boarding class. Yup, he is on the slopes as we speak. He's NUTS!!!!

He did OK. The instructor has a good head on his shoulders and gave the students plenty of warm-up time, thank goodness.
Looks like were going to warm up in the 20's by Friday. Long range forecast shows a week or two of teens to 20s for highs.

Got in some new Lenovo PCs at work. M57 Thinkcentre's 2.2 Ghz core 2 duo.
They rip through a DDDT work unit in about 49 minutes.
The group of us have been trying to talk the company into partnering up with WCG. We are going to propose it soon. Got all the partnership info from the fine folks that work here. If that happens MN Crunchers will take a hit in the daily points and such since most of our PCs will have to run on the company's team. But they will be a force reckoned with if it goes through.

If you can talk the company into the partnership, more power to you. The important thing is the work gets done. Those appear to be sweet little machines you have in your upgrade.

Cheers