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We still have snow - it started melting just a tad bit but most of it's still there - and ultimately we got just shy of three inches (Mom went out and measured!), which is spectacular for our part of the Portland-Metro Area.
And of course we are staying home where it's safe, rather than getting run into by the idiots who refuse to put chains on their cars. Dudes! It has *nothing* to do with whether or not you're trying to get up an incline! It's about *traction*! The local news stations have had quite a bit of interesting film of idiots trying to drive in the Portland area - one piece, in which an SUV starts sliding but runs into a curb with its tires and then does this bumper-cars thing where it bounces off the curb with three of its four tires, was Dad's particular favorite; he counted KATU showing it seven times in 1.5 hrs. I am partial to a segment in which a tow truck driver, picking up the pieces after a collision, shouts at the camera, "IDIOTS (or was it MORONS), STAY HOME!!!" I am inclined to agree with him.
One of the big stories is, of course, the incident in Vancouver where a teenager boy was sledding and got run over by a van when he slid into the street. Very sad, yes, particularly for the van's driver, but I have little sympathy for the Darwin Award candidate. Rule one of going sledding is DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SLED NEAR THE ROAD AND ESPECIALLY DO NOT SLED INTO THE ROAD. The reporters kept saying things about wearing a helmet while sledding in connection to this story, and the three of us - Mom, Dad and I - are constantly in a moment of WTF? as they say this. Because wearing a helmet is so obviously NOT THE ISSUE AT HAND.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to enjoy the snow, though I had really really wanted to, because I have come down with a cold and it's a bad one. Dad had it last week, so all I can say is that I'm surprised it took this long to incubate, and man, what bad timing. I've gotten some lovely pictures of our yard and the cats and such, and Mom and I have watched the birds go after the seed she threw for them, so it's not as if I haven't gotten any entertainment out of the situation. And I'm finally wearing down the first charging of my ipod battery. I listened to the BTVS "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack, the BTVS: The Album, and Dido's "No Angel" while I finished up part 12 of "Reunion" and started work on Part 13. Part 13 is another Lois POV. While I definitely do ship "Clois", as they say in SV fandom, "Reunion" will only have references to the future Clois situation, in case any one's worried about that; part 13 will have some Cloisy inclinations, but repeat after me: Reunion!Clark and Reunion!Lois are seriously stressed out. It won't mean anything, not really. It's all about stress. I know I have a lot of Clex'ers on my flist, and that some of the best SV fic is Clexy in nature. (Clex!fic is my dirty little SV secret.)
Speaking of SV, I got Dad to watch "Hydro" with me yesterday - by "watch", I mean "the best parts version", which means everything that was required to understand The Moments Of Squee-itude and not a single moment of the Lex-And-Lana soap opera of badness - and he actually enjoyed a SV episode for once. (He has Issues with John Schneider, so in the past whenever Pa Kent showed up it would be "Oh, him again" and much kvetching.) He seems to adore Chloe, and thought she was absolutely excellent in "Hydro", which I agree with. I might manage to get him to watch "Justice" with Mom and I. His inner fanboy is making itself known. (Not that its existence was ever in question; I was practically raised on Star Trek - and the other day when we were watching "Mirror, Mirrow" and Mom and I started MST3King it, he had a tantrum. It was entertaining.)
And of course we are staying home where it's safe, rather than getting run into by the idiots who refuse to put chains on their cars. Dudes! It has *nothing* to do with whether or not you're trying to get up an incline! It's about *traction*! The local news stations have had quite a bit of interesting film of idiots trying to drive in the Portland area - one piece, in which an SUV starts sliding but runs into a curb with its tires and then does this bumper-cars thing where it bounces off the curb with three of its four tires, was Dad's particular favorite; he counted KATU showing it seven times in 1.5 hrs. I am partial to a segment in which a tow truck driver, picking up the pieces after a collision, shouts at the camera, "IDIOTS (or was it MORONS), STAY HOME!!!" I am inclined to agree with him.
One of the big stories is, of course, the incident in Vancouver where a teenager boy was sledding and got run over by a van when he slid into the street. Very sad, yes, particularly for the van's driver, but I have little sympathy for the Darwin Award candidate. Rule one of going sledding is DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SLED NEAR THE ROAD AND ESPECIALLY DO NOT SLED INTO THE ROAD. The reporters kept saying things about wearing a helmet while sledding in connection to this story, and the three of us - Mom, Dad and I - are constantly in a moment of WTF? as they say this. Because wearing a helmet is so obviously NOT THE ISSUE AT HAND.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to enjoy the snow, though I had really really wanted to, because I have come down with a cold and it's a bad one. Dad had it last week, so all I can say is that I'm surprised it took this long to incubate, and man, what bad timing. I've gotten some lovely pictures of our yard and the cats and such, and Mom and I have watched the birds go after the seed she threw for them, so it's not as if I haven't gotten any entertainment out of the situation. And I'm finally wearing down the first charging of my ipod battery. I listened to the BTVS "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack, the BTVS: The Album, and Dido's "No Angel" while I finished up part 12 of "Reunion" and started work on Part 13. Part 13 is another Lois POV. While I definitely do ship "Clois", as they say in SV fandom, "Reunion" will only have references to the future Clois situation, in case any one's worried about that; part 13 will have some Cloisy inclinations, but repeat after me: Reunion!Clark and Reunion!Lois are seriously stressed out. It won't mean anything, not really. It's all about stress. I know I have a lot of Clex'ers on my flist, and that some of the best SV fic is Clexy in nature. (Clex!fic is my dirty little SV secret.)
Speaking of SV, I got Dad to watch "Hydro" with me yesterday - by "watch", I mean "the best parts version", which means everything that was required to understand The Moments Of Squee-itude and not a single moment of the Lex-And-Lana soap opera of badness - and he actually enjoyed a SV episode for once. (He has Issues with John Schneider, so in the past whenever Pa Kent showed up it would be "Oh, him again" and much kvetching.) He seems to adore Chloe, and thought she was absolutely excellent in "Hydro", which I agree with. I might manage to get him to watch "Justice" with Mom and I. His inner fanboy is making itself known. (Not that its existence was ever in question; I was practically raised on Star Trek - and the other day when we were watching "Mirror, Mirrow" and Mom and I started MST3King it, he had a tantrum. It was entertaining.)