How do you deal with winter?

How do I deal with Winter? how about a 2000° hobby??

I ski with my kids.

I run winter rally-x's.

I do winter TSD rallies.

I tune up the snow blower!

93celicaGT2 wrote:

16vCorey wrote: The time change kills me. It goes from being dark when I get to work to being dark when I get off work. In a month or so it will be dark when I go to work AND leave. I hate the time change. At least give me one hour or light after work!!! Is that too much to ask for?!?!?

It's worse here because we're right on the line for central time, too...

I'm on the other side of the line, in central time. It gets dark at 5:00 here. That's absurd.

There's plenty to be done on my turbo FC to get it road-worthy and track-worthy. I don't mind working in the snow and cold as long as I can see a foot in front of me and the wind isn't gnawing my face off. I might even rallycross it if I can get a new skid plate installed.

Other than that, it's mainly playing video games and paintball and working on wiring projects.

Brew beer. Ski. Practice rallying techniques in empty parking lots (snow on the ground required).

Drewsifer wrote: My plan for this winter? Slowly rebuild the Miata so next spring/summer I'll be able to do all the autox and HDPE I can afford and find time for.

+1

and I think I might try out a bit of empty parkinglot sideways hoonage in the Miata, or see what Sparky feels like when sideways it's always lovely to have both a middle school with a sizable parkinglot and a shopping mall each about 5/8 mile from your house. I'm nearly convinced that shopping mall contains a hidden race track, I just haven't found a good time to investigate that theory. it even has a very tamed version of the Corkscrew, and if I try hard enough with clear road ahead of me, a small jump, ala the old Nurburgring Nordschleife course

Make the most of empty parking lots.

Laugh at cars with twice as many drive wheels in ditches.

Spend lots of time on car forums and ebay, waching Top Gear, etc.

Ice Time Trials

Drive through 4' snow drifts at speed

This year I'll be attempting some car stuff. Bit of bodywork and some polishing...

Eat a lot of pie, watch a lot of hockey, cruise the country roads on the few sunny days, hike, work in the garage until I freeze, then wait until Spring to thaw.

JeepinMatt wrote: Eat a lot of pie,

I'm making 3 (well, kinda 4) pies this week. Hopefully I'll remember to take pictures during the process and post a build thread.

mistanfo wrote:

Wally wrote: Shamelessly hotlinked pics of beenie and homemade bus scarf

Love my GRM Beanie! It's getting stretched out though, I've worn it too much. And Wally, may I recommend the Zippo catalytic hand warmers? Should be significantly cheaper than the disposables in the long run.

Thanks, I never saw them before. We should find out in a few weeks how they work

I've never heard of them, but will look for them too. I have Reynaud's (circulation problem in fingers) so cold weather is hell unless I can keep my hands warm.

My winter beater (mazda 323) does just fine through the worst of our Canadian winters with four good snow tires.

< = Look here I'm a ski patroller on the weekends.

That photo was staged with magnetic material to get the patrol crosses on my perfectly colored TR3. The TR3 only gets to play in the snow around the house because we don't use salt locally during the annual dusting.

Jack

NGTD wrote: I ski with my kids. I run winter rally-x's. I do winter TSD rallies. I tune up the snow blower!

That all sounded horribly depressing, until you got to tuning up the snow blower. So... Whaddaya got under the hood of that thing?

I hide and try not to kill myself. Or my coworkers. And I take these: http://www.naturalhealthyconcepts.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=glycogenics&Store_Code=nhc&search=glycogenics&offset=0&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high= I need to get the berzerkeley out of this state...

Curse that it's below 50 degrees in the morning for the next 4-5 months, even in OK.

It was 37 this morning.

Not mine:

PS3, movies, project car needing love... lots and lots of love...."alone time" with the wife....

I set record times with oil changes at 20 degrees laying on frozen ground. This is the time of year I should just pay someone to do it, but that goes against my mentality.

Trying to hurt myself on a snowboard keeps me active, as do snow shoes and skis. I actually enjoy being out in the snow, and since we get 200" a year here, it helps.

Of course snowy parking lots are usually good for burning up a quarter tank of gas as well

cwh wrote: Port St. Lucie...

I try to get warm with a visit to my mom/stepfather in Stuart. But most of the time I try to get into the GREAT WHITE ROOM:

Snow? I don't grok this "snow" thing you speak of.

+1 for living in the South!

Skateboard (at indoor skatepark)

Cook a lot

House projects/housekeeping

Road trips (well, those are year-round)

Get in shape for the spring (getting a mag trainer for my bike this Christmas)

Read

Blizzaks. Blizzaks make me smile. In college (in WI) i got through by poking fun at the students from florida, warm countries, etc... who complained when it was 30 degrees. This is especially fun when it is -30

In reply to Rufledt:

Nothing is fun at -30.

chknhwk wrote: In reply to Rufledt: Nothing is fun at -30.

False. Go into a hospital 9 months after a snowstorm/cold streak.

Last year I installed this:

With the furnace still on to keep the basement warm, it puts our living space all between 70-90F depending on how hard I'm running it. The room it's in can hit a hundred if the fans aren't running to circulate the heat around the house. Going outside when it's five below feels AWESOME after spending your morning in a house so hot and dry that it feels like Arizona. :)