Today makes the, like, 854th day of below freezing temperatures, and it's starting to get old.  The news people say it'll get up into the mid to upper 30s today, but they're all liars.

stinky_monky and I are taking the week off, and it's been a good vacation so far (despite the cold).  We spent Saturday lounging except for a wander around the Short North to ( Read more... )

Yesterday it snowed all freaking day, but none of it sticked for very long.  It was a nice way to ease into winter and the holiday season ( Read more... )

It has been 46 hours since the Great Blackout began, and humanity is on the brink.  Refrigerated foodstuffs are dying by the millions, and well-stocked freezers are not expected to last the night.  Credit card machines are down and inventories are getting low at area restaurants (even at McDonald's, which everybody has begun to look to as the ( Read more... )

I made it back to Columbus Saturday night just in time to hear that the OSU football team crapped out again on the national stage.  Good thing we are only playing against other crappy Big Ten teams for the rest of the season ( Read more... )

We're snowed in today.  The biggest storm in years is here, and the whole city is shut down.  Thankfully, it started on a Friday and now we have the whole weekend to relax, watch it snow, and dig ourselves out.  As long as the power lasts, we'll be fine.  Somehow we ended up with a surplus of food, so I've been cooking off and on all day, between ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time in weeks (months?  It's so hard to tell after a while), there was no snow on the ground.  At all.  The temperature was in the low 50s, so I was able to open the windows and air the place out a bit.  Tomorrow will supposedly be in the 60s, so it might be time to break out the Hawaiian shirts.  And a big ol' rainstorm is on ( Read more... )

Well, possibly the worst part of our trip to California is over: an hour ago we dropped Oreo off at the vet hospital that will be boarding him.  It's the first time we've left him anywhere since we got him a year ago.  Not fun at all.  Kinda like dropping off a baby at the babysitter's for the first time, I imagine ( Read more... )

Hell just froze over.  I just printed out the final draft of my paper on the California Air Resources Board and will drop it off in about half an hour.  That 40-page Sword of Damocles is no longer hanging over my head.  I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the makers of Excedrin and Diet Dr. Pepper for helping me get through the last two days ( Read more... )

After the frozen hell that was February, spring is here.  Well, it'll be here for a few days, anyway, and then it'll probably start snowing again.  Right now it is sunny and 79 degrees.  I'm actually sweating a little (especially since OSU thinks it's still winter and the heaters are still blowing).  It looks like a massive shipment of footballs, ( Read more... )

Courtesy of The Onion:

Leo (July 23 - Aug 22):  Like moths to a flame, so too will moths be drawn to your flame-engulfed corpse this Thursday.

Which kinda sucks because I'm having a really good day so far.  It's the last day of the quarter (finals start on Monday), I finished grading those damnable papers last night, it's Friday, and it's supposed to ( Read more... )