ok. i think i've got something worked out.

let's get ready...

i went to check for travel issues and learned that the tunnel is closing tonight. ugh.

do i want to go anyways?

i've cleared out the rest of the month, and it's down to a few iffy shows over the last weekend. so, i can afford to blow the night. that said, the cad/usd has also gone up, meaning it's going to cost me almost $60 to buy $40 cdn.

there's no travel warnings at the border.

there's nothing obvious to do after the show and the bus out isn't until 6:00. it's at least not forecast to be cold. so, if i just stay at the venue until 2:00, i could get a coffee for 2:30 and be out for 5:15ish. i'd still rather find something else.

but, i suspect places are actually going to be wanting to close early tonight, as the hysteria keeps people at home. 

hrmmn.

let me shower and see.

i am a short 5' 8". so, it's closer to 5' 7".

my father was a hair taller than me, and my mother is a hair shorter than me. my full sister is a good inch taller than me - she's a convincing 5' 9". and, i have an aunt that is 5' 11".

we know that height is primarily a function of nutrition and diet during childhood, and it is not clear whether the differences we see in gender across most cultures (although not all cultures.) are due primarily to genetic sexual dimorphism or to cultural differences in how men and women are nourished in childhood. in rural india, where poverty is endemic across both genders, the average height of men and women are both around 5' 4". on the other hand, the average height of women has been increasing dramatically over the last century inside of oecd nations, where gender equality is on the rise. women in northern europe are taller than men in much of the world, nowadays.

5' 8" would be relatively short for a woman in scandinavia, which is where my mother's ancestors are from, and which is the part of my ancestry that i most readily identify with, culturally. while it is a little taller than the global average for women, it is also shorter than the global average for men. i would be considered very short for a male in northern europe.

so, i don't consider myself particularly tall.

i meet women that are taller than me all of the time.