This is the view from my car this morning as I shoveled the heavy, gods-forsaken white evil from my poor little car.
I am pretty tired of this shit.
What makes it extra-special funny it that I spent half a decade or so in Los Angeles, a city where snow is only used to discuss drugs or as an epithet for a person afflicted with a too-dry scalp or eczema. After years of perfectly warm weather, where the worst weather you could hope for in the winter was a little extra wind and two days of rain, I realized that I missed the midwest and its seasonal changes. I wholeheartedly missed the fall with its glorious changing colors and delicious smells. I remembered fondly the fun of building snowmen and tobogganing of winter.
“What the hell was wrong with me?” I think now.
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Church of Hell
The sand in the swimtrunks of life.
Snow – it’s not just for politics anymore.
February 26th, 2008
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What the hell, Ohio?
March 5th, 2008
This morning sucked. First, it looks like my state was suckered into voting for the wanna-be Bush Jr., McCain ass-sucking, Republican-in-Dem clothing Hillary. I didn’t vote. I have no great excuse other than my registration, which was turned in on time, apparently wasn’t entered into the system and I didn’t want to drive with two children in bad weather halfway around the state to cast a ballot in a county in which I no longer live to nominate someone who won’t be elected because he’s not on the right payrolls. After the enormous amount of fraud that happened in the last few elections here, I’ve lost any respect for and faith in our electoral system. So I didn’t vote.
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Let it snow…
March 8th, 2008
Well, the weather outside is frightful since it’s been snowing pretty badly for about 24 hours straight. Being on the lake, we have nothing to block it so the parking lot is pretty bad with the drifts completely blocking in cars. We were watching some people trying to tow out cars that were stuck and blocking any plows from getting through (and making it impossible for anyone to move their cars) when we saw the following:
I was wanting the Benny Hill music to play but I don’t have any video editing software installed. They were trying to tow a PT Cruiser and couldn’t get it moving, so they added a second truck to help tow the first truck which was towing the PT Cruiser. Amazingly, it worked!