'Bushwhacked'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Last time I had a galette des Rois was when I drove from the Eastern Shore to the French bakery in Fells Point to get one for an Epiphany/Taking-down-the-tree game night.
Oh man I REALLY miss that place!
As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week. For real. I've been psychologically traumatized (esp coming as it did in conjunction with them finding Bob's tumor).
As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week. For real. I've been psychologically traumatized (esp coming as it did in conjunction with them finding Bob's tumor).
Yeah, I believe that. Sorry, you guys!
And here it's in the high 70s. For differing values of "perfect" and "winter."
Heh.
As for perfect winter weather, I don't think I'll look at snow the same way again after last week.
Growing up in Wisconsin during a decade of heavy snow, I think it'd take five feet of snow to make me look at snow differently....
I will say, I think Boston is still traumatized by the Blizzard of 78, and it's been 30 years! Like, I'm pretty sure that's why they closed schools here last week when we didn't end up getting any snow. And that was "only" 27 inches, but no one was prepared, was the problem. [link]
Amy, I'm quite happy with my Asus netbook. I dragged it around Greece last fall with no problem, and now it's going to my Wednesday ground school class for note taking. I wouldn't want to do intensive Photoshop work on it, but for my light-use purposes (notes and web, mostly) it's fine.
After living up here in the Land of Lake Effect Snow, I'm so immune to snow by now, it's weird. I actually feel weirdly guilty that the Mid-Atlantic is getting hit so hard and we've gotten very little in the last month, simply because it's all budgeted for up here, so it's always plowed and salted right away. People know how to live with snow up here.
My perspectives on both snow and disability were altered by that huge storm in Minneapolis we got on Halloween '91. We got 30" of snow in 24 hours. I was on crutches, so I had difficulty getting around for the next few weeks - where sidewalks were not cleared, I'd have to walk sideways on the footpaths through the snow. I don't know what people in wheelchairs do when sidewalks are not cleared of thick snow.
I don't know what people in wheelchairs do when sidewalks are not cleared of thick snow.
I've been thinking about that here a lot.
Damn.
JPMorgan Bombing: Bomb Explodes At Bank Offices In Athens
(AP) Police in the Greek capital say a bomb has exploded at the offices of American financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co., causing no injuries.
Good thing there were no injuries.
The government of Greece was hiding the extent of their financial borrowing. Now they're screwed, and possibly the European Union with them