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You see I'm an "I want it now, gas guzzler driving American" who's sick of all this crap. I/we, all of us major metropolitan area dwellers, have to drive straight through a most liberal college town to get to the lake. Why? Because construction of the four lane gas guzzler expressway slated to by-pass the college town was stopped. There was some "wetlands" out there and some little frog may have become unable to hop over the highway without being SMASHED. This college and another local university claimed this area for "research". In the mean time we have to drive through town and a miriad of stoplights sitting behind 1983 Volvos puffing blue smoke and sporting bumper stickers like "Kansas...as bigoted as you think".

And you now what? Since this highway project was stopped (20 years ago) research has proven that this wetland was not natural at all. It was "naturally" created in the 50's due to runoff from the expansion of the city, i.e. parking lots and storm sewers!!! So now what? Ignore the facts. The poor little frogs have claimed it for a habitat.

So what does this have to do with the weather being unseasonably warm last year and unseasonably cool this year? Not a damn thing. Do I know why? Yup, weather runs in cycles. And I'm pissed because I was "cheated" out of three or four weeks of sailing. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Wah, wah, wah! There!