I am legend

It seems stupid to warn you about spoilers since this movie has been out so long but there you are.

So I got suckered into watching I am legend today on HBO. I know, I know I just turned it on and there it was and I just had to watch.

I knew the dog was gonna die. I knew it going in. Still I watched. Stupid? yes.

Did it in fact unfold that way? yes. Was I sad? yes.

Am I sporting a new haristyle? yes I am... Was it intetional... nope.

There you have it from my world.

In the driving slush

We've never had this volume of snow in the PNW for as long as I've been here (about 14 years) and usually when the roads get to slush and away from ice all is good.

Not this time. I find even in my little suv I'm having clearance problems and the ruts that have been dug in just rule your car. Life must be like this for a slot car. You can speed up. You can slow down. Steering... not so much. I prefer hard pack snow and ice to the slush troughs passing for roads in my neighborhood.

It's just icky too. It's not pretty clean snow. It's just gross.

There have been a couple of times when I've thought I'm gonna lose it and end up in the ditch, but so far so good. Also I always take my shovel and boots with me just in case I have to dig myself out of something. I imaging when it snows like this around here, body shop owners expecting many fender benders are all, "cha-ching!"

A very special holiday moment

It's when you find it. It matches exactly what they want. It might even be better than they asked for. I don't know what it is in your world that you're hunting for but there is that feeling when you find it and you compare it to the list and it matches exactly and it's the last one. The very last one the mega store has. The package is perfect no dings, dents, or scratches and it is exactly what they want. Sure the line is long and the parking lot is full and you had to walk up hill in the snow to get it and here it is the last one and that warm feeling inside when you have it in your hands. The exact gift you were looking for and it was the last one. The last one.

The feeling inside is ever so special when you smile and think quietly to yourself, "Fuck all y'all! I got it and you DIDN'T"

Snow day!

Boo yeah it's blizzardy white out. Random children trying to sled in the street. Kids ok here's the thing: "our street? flat. 2 blocks over now that's a fucking hill. go to it."

Just stay the fuck off my lawn! OK no not really. Play on my lawn children just don't sue me when you break your collar bone.

Weeks worth of training

Well it was more than a weeks worth. It was manager training where they sequestered us away in a hotel for a week and we worked some nights until midnight. I can't really begin to explain it and if I told you some of the funniest things that happend it wouldn't be funny at all.

I did learn to respect the banana.

If I told you

If I told you I was going off the radar for a week. You'd notice.

I'm guessing by my recent post history if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't notice.

So I'm not telling you. Go back about your business. Go on.

Portions

Maybe it's maturity or maybe it's having a digital scale in the house, but today I skipped Dixie's bar-b-q in favor of a vegge burrito.

Really it wasn't either. I was just too lazy to lift the fucking thing. The portions they serve are so large you can't even pick up the sandwich. You have to eat it with a (yes... compostable) fork.

Even the vegge burrito was too big and I threw about a quarter of it out, but it was significantly cheaper than dixies and I'm not sure I could have been party to tossing that much delicious bbq...