At 10:29 09-03-01 -0300, you wrote:
>JDG wrote:
> >
> > Nit-picking...... you can probably find a job near "home",
> > just not a job that you want.
> >
>I have a job so close to home, that it takes me 30 minutes
>[of which most is spent waiting for the elevator and
>the subway car, and walking to the subway station] to get
>there. About two weeks ago, there was a problem in the
>subway, and I walked home, and arrived there 40 minutes later.
>
>Needless to say that I was so tired [probably the Texans
>know what it means to walk 40 minutes in a 40-degree weather]
>that I had to eat 1/4 of a 2-liters icecream :-)
>
>Alberto Monteiro
Except that when it is 40 degrees in Texas, people would be wearing
sweaters or jackets and would be looking forward to eating hot chili rather
than ice cream.
OTOH, if it were _minus_ 40 degrees, it wouldn't matter which temperature
scale you were using . . .
-- Ronn! :)
