Mmmm, Chocolate Roulette of Death.

I'm scampering around my workspace trying to finish shit up because JZ, Emmett and I are driving up to Lake Tahoe tonight - where we will be vacating through Wednesday.

No computers up there so we'll be offline.

Since this is a three-day weekend in the middle of winter and there's been a ton of new snow, the drive up to Tahoe is going to be bumper to bumper. So we're trying to leave early so we can join that hellish drive earlier.

We may get pulled over to do chains on our tires in the mountains.

Wish us not getting trapped in the Donner Pass.

Do you not have chains, Hec? Because it would be worth stopping at the auto parts store. It's raining here in Berkeley, so I imagine they're getting something north of us.

Do you not have chains, Hec?

I don't think we do. We'll probably just buy them as we get into the mountains.

Any time someone mentions Ice, Ice Baby, it makes me think a guy I know who likes to perform it at karaoke and a bunch of his friends will get up and be his backup dancers. It's absolutely hilarious to watch.

We'll probably just buy them as we get into the mountains.

They get a lot more expensive as you get into the mountains, so you might want to consider a more local place. A LOT.

I hope you have a good trip, Hec.

We might get some snow in my area this weekend, too. Well, for values of weekend that equal Monday. But since I have Monday off, I figure that counts.

I saw the strangest karaoke of "Summer Nights." Four or five girls who were really into it, plus two or three less-than-interested boys who'd been dragged up there by the girls.

Sounded like the original, played in stereo, with one speaker turned off.

Have a good time, Hecubus.

Yay, Lake Tahoe. Have fun, Hec.

It is threatening madly to snow here. In fact, I can see the snow coming down over there, but it still hasn't made it actually here. However, I have a fire going and a fresh load of wood both on the porch and in the house, so I say, bring it, sucker!

Oh, except that our buddy is traveling in today. Hmm. Oh, well.

Also, I have discovered that reading COMM before reading Natter is a healthy practice, thus allowing me not to have the disconcerting conversational segue from ice dancers to, erm, graphite reinforcements.

In related news, today we discovered one of our pencils was missing its lead altogether. While normally that would make me go, huh, today it is making me feel altogether queasy, what with the channel for distribution of fluids aspect of the conversation above.

Hm.

Also? Snowy.

I just ran across someone griping about Fox being so quick to cancel quality programming like Tru Calling, Fastlane, and Reunion. Hilarious that I can find common cause for discontent with someone whose tastes are so opposed to mine.