Saturday noonish: Waiting out a winter wonderland . . .

1. This morning, I jokingly said to alethea_eastrid: "Maybe we should just leave the car and the truck snowed in, because it's just gonna snow again tomorrow." After about 15 minutes, I realized this was not really a rhetorical question. It may be a plan. I have to go look. It is, by the way, still snowing.

It's apparently going to recharge and start back up tomorrow morning at 4 or so. It's another one of those "You can't see it, but it's gonna happen" storms. The road looks good though. We live on the eastern-most main north-south thoroughfare in New York -- Route 22. There is a prison on the road and a couple of sheriff and state police stations. (For those familiar with the Northway (I-87), this road parallels it about 15 or so miles east. About a mile down the road, you hit Route 29, which is a major east-west route that leads to the Northway. It is fairly well-maintained, too.

2. And again, I repeat, the people at Special Olympics New York were brilliant for scheduling the Polar Plunge *last* weekend. I do not think they have one scheduled for today.

3. Do you read "Two Lumps?" If you have cats, you should. It gets a little strange sometimes, and I could not figure out today's until Alethea started cackling.

Edit: That's "Eight Maids 'A Milking."

She pointed out that they have been doing "The 12 Days of Christmas" and today is the eighth day:



4. I got lucky this morning and managed to score a pair of Dropkick Murphy tickets for evilnicola, who didn't have computer access this morning. The St. Patrick's Night show and the Friday night show were sold out, but I hit on the Saturday matinee.

5. OK, a great beer commercial!

6. joedecker, who is my early warning system on major GLBT issues, linked to engayge_america, which provided excellent information about the "Campbell Soup Boycott."

I liked Joe's idea about buying Campbell Soup and giving it to food pantries and soup kitchens.

Anyway, so I call the number for Campbell Soup, and the voice says: "If this is a medical emergency, press 1, for all other calls, press 2."

I wonder if they get a lot of medical emegrency calls.

Anyway, there's no way to leave a message, so I will call back Monday in support.

7. Becauserhodri was asking about his beer, I present today's Latin lesson:

You have a beer.

Cervisiam habes.

I have no beer.

Cervisiae careo.

What kind of friend are you?

Qualis amicus es?

Saturday afternoon: And a blanket of white . . .

1. Yes, still snowing. Make that 28 or so hours at this point.

Light, fluffy snow. The car and the truck are in the village municipal lot, and while I did dig them out a bit, they really just needed to have the eight or so inches of snow brushed off.

As I said, the main roads are taken care of, but they are still snowy and a bit slick. We had a couple ambulances go by the house, and one came back with lights and siren going.

2. Snow means cooking. This morning, alethea_eastrid got coffee (chocolate-raspberry from Green Mountain) and "Cheesy Eggs" with onions and garlic for breakfast. She made some Trader Joe's Chocolate Chip cookies, then I baked the swordfish in olive oil, garlic and lemon. I ate two pieces, and she's going to make curried fish and vegetables with the rest. Edit: She just handed me hot chocolate.

Next up, mussels, steamed in black pepper, lemon and beer (and maybe something else).

3. The forecast, well maybe a little more accumulation overnight, and then there's Sunday's fprecast from www.noaa.gov:

Sunday: Snow. High near 28. Wind chill values as low as -8. East wind between 9 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches possible.

4. I will likely be on AIM and Yahoo the rest of the day and evening. Info is on my user page. I may take a break to conquer proto-England in the name of Thor.

5. lumineaux: Alethea has had the Boar's Head Carol running through her head all day. I tried to distract her with Manah-manah, but it didn't work.

6. And many thanks to rennie_frog for my felted slipper/shoes which are not just for the SCA and are as warm as heck.


7. I leave you with a couple of pictures from just outside my front door this afternoon.