... it's cold ( Read more... )

... okay, maybe just a little bit ( Read more... )

I think it's done snowing; looks like a couple of inches of accumulation. The plows are already clearing the parking lot, so I may have no excuse not to go to the gym tomorrow morning, dagnabit.

Also, I uploaded "Cry Havoc" to FF.net two hours ago and already over twenty people have read it. I have stories in other fandoms that twenty people ( Read more... )

Natural disaster #3: minor flooding. Not as bad as what came with Irene, but still pretty annoying. (I hope kanja177 isn't stuck on a train somewhere -- things started getting bad up by her yesterday.)

Got my fireandice2011 prompts. I signed up partly because I've written some stuff I really liked for this contest in the past, but mostly to give my muse a reason to ( Read more... )

First an earthquake; now this. It's enough to make one question the fallaciousness of the Gambler's Fallacy.

My immediate neck of the woods escaped serious damage -- I think most of the marginal trees and tree limbs came down in last year's windstorm (though my friend C lost power when a 100-year-old tree toppled onto electrical lines in his ( Read more... )

All the weather about which my westerly flist has been (rightly) complaining landed here over the past few days: heat and humidity that buckled highways, broken last night by a hailstorm. Which OF COURSE took place while I was away from home at a rehearsal and couldn't leap to the rescue of the tomato plant I am carefully nurturing on the balcony ( Read more... )

On the Dress of a Traveler Ascending from the Subway

Thought you were hardcore,
Bald guy in shirtsleeves, till you
Put on that ski cap

This frosty bright March morning.
      (Brr! Wish I'd thought to wear mine!)

Total snow accumulation (official): 6.2 inches.

Total snow accumulation (unofficial): ankle depth.

Snow type: Fluffy.

Plow type: Bulldozer. (Kid you not. I heard the scraaaape-scraaaape-scraaaape begin around four in the morning and checked. Maybe they ran out of regular plows ( Read more... )

... or, Why I Need to Find the Dustpan and Brush Now, or, Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow, But Not on My Porch, Please ( Read more... )

Local official snow total: 15". (Somewhat more at the airport ( Read more... )