Well, today was supposed to be a hugely productive day, which was largely derailed by an absolutely killer and pointless anxiety attack that I finally managed to get the better of about an hour ago. So now I feel less like I'm harboring a chestburster, but much more like I want to collapse in an exhausted heap--but I have not written nearly as much ( Read more... )

The storm is over and the sun came out. Everything is melting, only to freeze again soon. More snow in the forecast. I'll be very surprised if we don't break the record this winter. We're less than seven inches from it now. And that's all since the last week of January ( Read more... )

Just for your reference, this is what we have on the ground for snow currently, before the major dump from Snowzilla tonight and tomorrow.

The GRD is 27" at the shoulder and weighs 94 pounds. For comparison's sake.

I apologize for the blurriness. It's dark out there!


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By now, it's pretty plain that the Weather Channel's plan to market and merchandise winter storms get people to "take winter storms seriously by naming them" is an abject failure, in large part due to the unintentional hi-larity of the names they have chosen. (Okay, I was fond of "Gandalf." Next year: Erebor!)

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This is the most dramatic weather breaking I remember ( Read more... )

Today, I survived the unholy embrace of the DMV, and it only took two trips to get my car registered and my license transferred. (I was sent back scavenging for some missing paperwork. N.B., if you ever have to register a car in Massachusetts, they want some arcane form from your insurance company: normal proof of insurance just will not do. And it ( Read more... )

According to my mother, there are still nearly half a million people without power--she wasn't sure if that was in Southern New England, or the whole region. It's getting hard to tell the nor'easter damage from the hurricane damage from the tornado damage around here--just how long has that tree been down ( Read more... )

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The whole world is melting. It's kind of nice.

Took the day more or less off: there was yoga and then breakfast with the batwrangler, before we sent her home, and then a dogwalk, because it was blissful 49 degrees and bucketing down rain ("A nice day!" no fewer than three people said to me today, in all sincerity. And it is. Warm rain melts snow.), and then ( Read more... )