19 degrees today. That’s the high. The low was 6.

As of October of last year, I now own the nicest car I’ve ever owned in my life and it’s getting immediately bludgeoned by this weather. Salt shooting up into the underbody. Freeze-thaw effect of ice wedging into gaps. Snow sludge tracked and squished into my floor mats.

Actually, up to this point (last couple of weeks) it’s been a fairly mild winter around here. Certainly no fourteen day stretches without sun like we had last year.