Status of me and weather and basketball

Dec 02, 2006 11:31

By the way, we here got basically nil snow in the huge midwestern snow storm of 2006. In the south part of town--where I live--we maybe got about 1/4 of an inch, just enough to nicely coat the ice from Wednesday. It started snowing lightly in the north part of town around noon on Thursday and stopped within an hour, leaving basically no trace. My parents, eight miles west of town had no snow, so I went out to their house and then went up their gravel/ice lane too fast and slid sideways into their parking area (and luckily not into the woods or the other way into dad's truck. *g* Still, the county roads were in nearly clear condition, which is always the case, while the city streets--even those that are FEDERAL HIGHWAYS sucked.

It's been so cold at night that a lot of the ice has evaporated, so...whatever to the storm. We got very lucky. Fifteen miles south got six inches; thirty miles east got eight and then it just kept getting worse through Missouri.

This is actually pretty typical for Kansas. We have the stupidest weather and we almost always have a bad storm at least three weeks before the official beginning of Winter, and I can't tell you how many Januarys have had days in the 70s.

Enough weather.

I'm out at my parents and mom and I are making sausage rolls for their big party next weekend while KU-Depaul is on. I have digital cable now so even if I was home I'd get the game but it's only being shown on ESPNNU, which here is only on digital cable or satellite dishes and I bet hundreds if not thousands of people are super pissed about this. Every KU basketball game has been televised on either local network channels or, if only on ESPN or something, also shown on a network channel so those five people who don't have cable can still see it since the mid-1980s! I bet the bars will be doing a booming business.

When I get home I have the fun job of paying bills, cleaning my kitchen, doing laundry and hopefully writing Christmas cards while watching last week's soap operas. My life is so exciting.

I need to start the holiday ficlets, too, since I'm already a day behind. This is completely typical of me. Not too late to sign up. Go here.

Back to documents. World War II has never been so boring when one has thirty six boxes of government documents to wade through.
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