I hate to be a broken record...

Seriously, will this winter ever end? I honestly don't remember a winter like this since I've lived in Nebraska, which has been 28 of my 33 years. Usually in the winter I get bummed at seeing the yellow, dead grass all winter - this winter that has happened. I haven't seen even the yellow grass since November! We've been buried, buried! underneath this crap for too long, and it's worn on me. Usually about this time of the year it's warming up, heck over a year ago (Feb 10th, to be exact) I was basking in a glorious 61 freaking degrees! Now it's cold! And I'm grumpy! With lots of exclamation!

Heck, looking at the weather outlook is depressing. Yesterday my brother commented that we haven't been over 45 degrees in two months and I laughed. Then I hit up weatherunderground, and.. he's right! The last day we had above 45 was December 1, when it was about 60 degrees... wow. It's not so much the temperature that's a problem (okay, it is..), but the snow and ice that just refuse to go away. I hate ice, and I hate riding a heavy mountain bike with heavy studded tires almost as much - but as it looks, I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. Maybe not until May at the rate we're going.

Not to beat a point to death, but this winter has been tough. It's been the brutal end to a brutal year. I'm ready to be done with 2009 completely, the year, the winter, all of it. I'm ready for 2010 to be decent, not great, just decent. Right now I'd take decent, I'd take 50 degrees, and I'd take the LHT on a long lost ride somewhere to reset my brain. That'd be all-right, as they say.