Pretty snow.

One morning, as my mom and us kids were leaving to go to school (my mom was a teacher's aid) (my dad was out of town at a convention) we saw an ambulance with flashing lights parked at our farm. Turned out the hired hand's wife called it, as the hired hand was unconscious after being kicked by a cow. Although later we surmised our hired hand's alcoholism had something to do with it. Kids on a school bus had seen the ambulance, so everybody was asking me about it.

Several years later, I was the only one home and had to watch out for the hired had, as he was wasted. He nearly wrecked some expensive farm machinery. Later, he fell into a gutter that was full of manure and couldn't get out. At that point I didn't know he was an alcoholic, and I had never seen anyone that drunk before, so the whole thing was distressing to me.

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Here's the view out of my window this morning: [link]

Heh - it looks like all the air conditioners are coverd by air conditioner cozies.

I have to go to work. And after that I'll go to work somewhere else. But there is (almost) no snow here. It snowed yesterday, but not enough to stick to the roads.

I have put together a survival pack for the day which includes Gatorade, water bottle, Puffs Plus and cough drops. I should make sure I have some ibuprofen to go and then shower. I'd really like to be done with this cold. I've been a mouth breather since tuesday.

Apparently I am skipping church. This is what happens when I lose track of the time. Oh, well.

Today, I shall make some palakh paneer, I think.

It's snowing and windy out like CRAZY.

Ate oatmeal while watching the local weather people on the TV. It's my favorite snow day activity.

Now I have to do school work. Boo!

Since everyone else is doing it, here's the current scene from my front window:

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The wind changed 180° overnight. It was from the southwest last night, which is why the driver's side of my truck is all snowed up, but now it's coming straight out of the northeast.

I'm making oatmeal too!

I bought this Silver Palette Oatmeal at the Giant Target with the Grocery store because it claimed to have more texture. I was somewhat disappointed to see that they are still rolled oats -- but it looks like it does have more texture than most rolled oats.

View from my bedroom window.

My boom story involves the townhouse shaking from side to side. I ran out of the house in the general direction it sounded like it'd come from. When I reached the intersection with the main road, the windows of the stores were blown out, but I couldn't really tell which direction to go in.

Which was good, since I went back home and waited for more news, missing seeing this by just over a block.

22.8" in Central Park. This is the 2nd largest snowstorm in NYC history.