Freezing in Minnesota!

Penguins don't live in Minneapolis. But if they did, they would be happy today. It's frigid cold cold.

As I type, the air temperature is -6 degrees. That's Fahrenheit, so for all you Celsius people that's -21.

The forecasted high for the day, if we're lucky, is -3 Fahrenheit, which is -19.4 Celsius.

But that's not the worst of it. The wind is even chillier, blowing at -25 Fahrenheit, which is -31 Celsius.

Crazy, right? But the cold isn't all bad.

It's one of the things that bonds Minnesotans together. It gives us a shared experience and thus, in part, helps to forge our identity.

Even though we complain about the cold, meet a Minnesotan anywhere in the world, and they are likely, at some point, to either be boastful or nostalgic about the Big Chill.

But for today, I am neither of those things. Instead, what I am is holed up inside refusing to leave my house.