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The snow comes up!
Jan. 12th, 2012 08:45 pmJust like the grass does! --Lucy Van Pelt, in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Watching today's slow and gradual accumulation, I could see how one might get that impression. We are up to about four inches since nine this morning, and they say it is still accumulating though it's hard to be sure in the dark.
Getting cold now, down into the teens (F) so we have the woodstove going. I made eggplant parmesan for dinner (a perennial favorite here) and a salad with red lettuce, tomato, avocado, and D'Anjou pear slices with blue cheese crumbles. Vegetarian at its richest and most luxurious. Sometimes I make eggplant into Romanoff, as in traditional noodles Romanoff with all the beef and sour cream. That's about equally decadent.
Upgraded the maps and firmware in Gary's Garmin GPS yesterday. I still don't see why their upgrade process has to take four solid hours. I was on a T-1 line with a fast machine and lots of RAM (though they require you to be running Windows, which undoubtely doesn't help matters when it comes to speed.) Anyway, he needed the update badly (was running on 2009 maps) and I promised it as a Christmas gift. Got him the "lifetime" update subscription, so it should cost anything but time when the next revision comes along.
Our mailbox was beheaded by a snow plow around noon, but this has happened so much that now we have a breakaway box that can be reassembled after it is murdered in this manner. A zombie, I suppose, but fortunately it doesn't frighten the mail carriers.
I should do something useful and responsible this evening, but probably won't. I already feel bed pulling at me.
Watching today's slow and gradual accumulation, I could see how one might get that impression. We are up to about four inches since nine this morning, and they say it is still accumulating though it's hard to be sure in the dark.
Getting cold now, down into the teens (F) so we have the woodstove going. I made eggplant parmesan for dinner (a perennial favorite here) and a salad with red lettuce, tomato, avocado, and D'Anjou pear slices with blue cheese crumbles. Vegetarian at its richest and most luxurious. Sometimes I make eggplant into Romanoff, as in traditional noodles Romanoff with all the beef and sour cream. That's about equally decadent.
Upgraded the maps and firmware in Gary's Garmin GPS yesterday. I still don't see why their upgrade process has to take four solid hours. I was on a T-1 line with a fast machine and lots of RAM (though they require you to be running Windows, which undoubtely doesn't help matters when it comes to speed.) Anyway, he needed the update badly (was running on 2009 maps) and I promised it as a Christmas gift. Got him the "lifetime" update subscription, so it should cost anything but time when the next revision comes along.
Our mailbox was beheaded by a snow plow around noon, but this has happened so much that now we have a breakaway box that can be reassembled after it is murdered in this manner. A zombie, I suppose, but fortunately it doesn't frighten the mail carriers.
I should do something useful and responsible this evening, but probably won't. I already feel bed pulling at me.
