Deep freeze

For Shrek, he would have been hibernating at the bottom of the lake by now if he was in the wild...

Tonight is probably the coldest night in this winter, -14 F at 9:30 p.m. With wind chill factor, it's more like -25 to -40 F, equivalent to -35 C or so. Well, I choose to live here, so I deal with the cold. I don't complain much about it because I have embraced it since I came here for college almost twenty years ago.

But what chills me tonight is actually the breaking news on Avista, the company that owns my newspaper Star Tribune, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Well, to our readers, it's breaking news, but to us, we have this in mind for a few months already. Still, it doesn't make it easier for everybody who is still working diligently to make the deadline every night.

I wish I could be like Shrek for a moment, just stop doing nothing and hibernate for a little while. No need to find food. No urge to mate. No worry of anything.

Photo credit: David Joles, my co-worker who shot the photo that ran on our newspaper today.