Corvoada dream and freezing rain commute

[ionelv]

Last night, I dreamt that someone was cheerily reading to us a new policy that ”asked” that we perform our patriotic duty and we must now work the fields for a limited time every year (look up corvoada). The policy was presented as a positive change for all and was met with muted reactions (as some could not read between the lines or were too afraid to ask). I now have flashbacks to 80s Romania and flash-forwards to 2020s USA.

This morning, my morning commute was half hour longer than usual: -7C outside, freezing rain, almost bald windshield wipers and a bad car heater that takes almost one hour to blow non-cold air. I stopped 3 times to scrape ice off my windshield and I had to drive with my head out twice due to ice buildup before I could stop to deice.