A pair of 1999s

When Vermont was a weekend, rather than longer-term, visit for us, spring was interesting. We'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was the same. Then, the next weekend, we'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was in the sixties and sunny. Then, the weekend after that, we'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was in the low seventies. And so forth.

My favorite Boston trick is the one whereby there's a weekend in March that's sunny and in the seventies. Everyone's outside in shorts and t-shirts, full of smiles and hope. And then, three days later, there's a Nor'easter. Followed by another one. And another. Followed by three months of lingering crap.

There used to be some sort of Red Sox metaphor involved, I think.
 
The last year of my stay in Southern New England (aka Connecticut), it snowed the first day of final exams and was 100 degrees the day of my last exam. Spring couldn't really hang you up the most because it never seemed to come there.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
The last year of my stay in Southern New England (aka Connecticut), it snowed the first day of final exams and was 100 degrees the day of my last exam. Spring couldn't really hang you up the most because it never seemed to come there.
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New Haven has its own weirdnesses as this story demonstrates. But I don't think it really counts as New England. Cartographically, maybe, but not phenomenologically.
 
originally posted by Thor:
When Vermont was a weekend, rather than longer-term, visit for us, spring was interesting. We'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was the same. Then, the next weekend, we'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was in the sixties and sunny. Then, the weekend after that, we'd leave the 50 degree rain and drive north, where it was in the low seventies. And so forth.
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The most obvious trick is for it to be 80 and sunny south of Vermont & 45 and raining in Vermont on golf day...in late May.
 
originally posted by Dan McQ:

In welcome and celebration, Taxachusetts will start taxing wine purchases that very day.
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Sounds like good timing indeed. I guess I should spend down all my money before arriving!

But to explore the other side of the argument, if wine purchases were previously exempt from sales tax in Massachusetts doesn't this seem less like an example of 'excessive' taxation and more as coming into line with norms from other states?
 
originally posted by Dan McQ:
originally posted by Rahsaan:

From August 1 I'll be living in Cambridge, MA.
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In welcome and celebration, Taxachusetts will start taxing wine purchases that very day.
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How is the obligatory purchase of health insurance in MA working so far?
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by maureen:
originally posted by Lou Kessler: The weather is sure as hell better year round than the DC area.

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surely you jest -
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You took the words out of my mouth. There are a lot of great things about Boston. New England weather isn't one of them, unless one has an enthusiasm for bitter cold, heat as bad as DC and wild shifts in weather in the course of minutes.
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Maybe I just was unlucky but I do remember the heat & humidity in DC being so bad you had to scrape the mildew off your ass with a knife.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:

Maybe I just was unlucky but I do remember the heat & humidity in DC being so bad you had to scrape the mildew off your ass with a knife.
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I recently ran across Richard Thompson's (the cartoonist, not the guitarist) take on that. It's from his "Poor Richard's Almanac"; he also draws the wonderfully weird comic strip "Cul de Sac".
 
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