Excessively cold

Air temperature -16 F, clear sky, wind near calm under waning crescent moon. Storm still on track for Saturday, with over a foot of snow and blizzard conditions due to wind. Reminding myself I won't have to tend a second house through that.

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I remind myself that a lot of Russians don't regard Ukraine as a country at all. It is a part of Russia that just doesn't pay its taxes.

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I can't boycott a service I don't use . . .

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Flakes falling from sky. Not many, and I haven't checked whether they are H2O or CO2 . . .