The importance of a stupid hat to my morale

       Nobody I know likes being cold, wet, and miserable. For sure, I don't!

            So I have fallen back on my own Marine experience and try to protect  myself, and all the others I work with, from the adverse weather where I presently live.

            In the winter where I live, it is often raining, snowing, and otherwise cold for those who have to be outside, like when doing security work at 0400 in the morning. Now that it is the springtime, I still don't like being  cold, wet, and miserable. Yep the nights still get chilly, and I still get cold, wet, and miserable. And I still don't like it.

             Even once I went through a pouring rain storm at South Toro Kay at Gitmo, and while it was outside warm (like about 80 F), once soaking wet I got really chilled, and it affected me, and I did not like it.

            By the way, I presently live at 36 degrees north latitude on the Cumberland Plateau in east Tennessee. I've been colder and more miserable elsewhere, too. And I guess mother nature and my personality have been me beat down over time. There was a time I would fight it, like prove how tough I was to myself. Most of us can do this, too.

            Hence I have decided these days to get a high tech Gortex hat to help shed the rain during miserable times. Work is work, but no need to be cold, wet, and miserable if I can avoid it. The idea is kind of like getting a "two for".

            That is how important something like a stupid hat is to me where I now live.