Thanks, Nilly. Yes, I'm finally home. My Mother is still with her sister and will be spending an extra day there due to the weather which is good -- now that the hub-bub has died down its really sinking in for them that their Mother is gone. I keep alternating between being sad about my Grandmother and then remembering that Mimi is gone too. (Oh, "Mimi" is short for Miriam. My Grandmother and her siblings were David, Paul, John, Ruth, Miriam and Esther).

The reason it is "more rare" as opposed to "rarer" is that English is random and weird.

Sad to not be able to see Jessica's pictures.

I would love to post some more, but I have to run.

Have great rest-of-the-weekend, everybody!

well, most adjectives can be parsed that way: fast, faster, fastest. Rare can be, too: rare, rarer, rarest.

I think maybe I just prefer "more rare" because "rarer" sounds weird. Like "rar"

It might just be the midwest accent thing, though.

Y'all cannot post so much on a Sunday. It makes me think it's Monday, and then I panic. Also, I need an extra day of weekend.

Oops -- I was missing a number in that URL. It's fixed now. (And for the anti-scroll crowd, DEATHSNOW 2006 photos are here.)

Deathsnow is kinda pretty. It's just cold here. Last week we had temps from 65-75 now it's 30-45. I hate not being able to put up either my winter or summer clothes. Pick a damn season already!

Also check out DH's photos from last night. The ones he took with the night-vision setting are pretty cool.

OK, I have completed the easiest thing on my to-do list. And The Outsiders is on TV! Now to really dig into the census stuff I was avoiding last night. I have to write a proposal for a case study that's not due til later, but I think I have to do most of the research to write the proposal. Oy.

I'm at work. I had to walk a whole two blocks in the snow to the subway. Sheesh. I probably had the easiest time of anybody getting here.

...And they just brought the power online.