- [x] Set timer for 20 minutes - [x] Start writing How can your hands be so hot but your feet so cold? When the air outside is minus, and the wood stove is cranking, your feet freeze to the floor while your hands collect so much heat your head is sweating. You dehydrate from the dryness, but are wearing your heaviest socks. Warm air rises, or cold falls, or drafty floors suck the heat right out of you. Soon, though, he would be tucked into his bag, letting the cold take control, hoping the stove will retain enough heat to keep him from waking up, at least for a few hours. How did anyone live through a New England winter in the 1700's? It's almost impossible to imagine. But, they were trying to do it themselves, in the old style. He felt incredibly strong, from the felling and chopping, to the loading and carrying, doing wood felt like a continuous action required continuous energy, which helped him be just as strong as he'd ever been. But, they couldn't do it without the modernization. This was the first real winter they had experienced for a while. Things had gotten so bad, that action had occurred. In this case, action was a multigigajoule hydrogen bomb set off in a mountain to send a volcano worth of ash into the sky, to provide a reflection for the sun, to cool the planet regardless of the CO2 and Nitrogen levels. And, it had worked. Science, goddammit, still works, weather you believe in it or not. Of course, Iceland and Canada had been pissed, Norway was pissed. All of the exposed industrial and mining opportunities that warming had given them, had now gone away. But, this was the price of return to "winter."