Yup, It’s Winter and All
First snow Wednesday – big flakes mixed with rain and blowing almost horizontally. Time to pay the piper for the previous couple weeks of abnormally warm weather. It was quite perfect for quite a while. Hoping for something dry and better than bone-chilling this weekend as I need to change the oil in Becky’s car. Also need to decide about the van. Poor thing sitting out there with dead battery, almost flat tire, rusting away in the driveway. Thing is, once in a while it’s nice to have, like last spring when we rented the tiller for the garden.
At least one spammer has been throwing comments garbage at the blog, so comments are turned off on most older articles.
Yesterday Norton Internet Security decided its firewall would no longer allow smtp (email) to/from my laptop. That took five or six hours to deal with. There’s no manual configuration for firewall settings other than rules that the user has added. Of course, I never added any rules to block email. Finally found a little page on their website with a 54kb download to restore default settings, which took care of it around 2:00 a.m. last night. Good ol’ Norton.
Okay, I’m off to the neurologist for nerve conductivity testing. This is like acupuncture but larger needles, through which electricity is fired and measured, at umpteen body locations. A lot like putting an ohmeter on a circuit. I’ll surely be in quite a zen-like state later today.
Kathie says:
YAY snow! I’m so excited to play in the snow and enjoy the quiet whiteness! I only get to see snow when I’m skiing/snowboarding, and it’s always loud and dirty. Not that I want to move to sub-zero climates, but it is nice to visit and have a white winter vacation. See you in a couple weeks!
John says:
Well, y’know, we can’t guarantee snow. And, if there is snow, it can make a trip to/from airport downright life threatening, or downright exciting, depending on one’s frame of mind. Stupid cold is closer to a sure thing. Which, along with snow, tends to encourage cozy indoor togetherness like bored, I mean board, games; but also baking cookies and pies and making candy and such. Jeez, I can’t believe this is just around the corner, timewise!
Kathie says:
Bring on the Stupid Cold! I’ll have my laptop and my Exactica! Can’t wait to see you guys again.