I shoveled the parking pad and brushed the foot high snow off my car. When I was out there my neighbor came out and started shoveling her steps and then was talking about shoveling her car out so I offered to do it for her. I had done her front walk along with mine this morning and our other neighbor did her front walk and steps. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer the same week Bob got his cancer diagnosis in 2010 a couple of days before that year's double blizzards. She's hung in there, and is working still, but her son told me that her kidneys have stopped functioning recently. I wasn't going to let her shovel her car out! We talked about that week in 2010 and how weird it was. She was marveling at how good she felt that week compared to how she feels now. I was like "but you're still hanging in there, shoveling snow." That's something.

Interesting installations.

Baby amur leopards! And one of them is melanistic. So cute and fluffy.

That one pic where one of them is snarling reminds me of a Weeping Angel.

An adorable widdle spotted Weeping Angel.

My boss just "invited" me to some (probably actually really interesting) meetings from 4-5:30. Yeah, no. I have to force myself to get my shit together to be on vacation! And not be here until 7!

Thanks to a combination of the baby leopard link, and it being That Kind of Day, I just bought myself a two-toed Sloth phone cover. [link]

oops

Heard over the wall: "His status says 'She's got a beautiful mind, if you know what I mean.'"

"Wow," said the other, "That's serial killer type of thinking there."

I am home. Hurray. And it is not snowing in either New Orleans or Houston, for which I am profoundly grateful.

I'm at a Denny's in Kentucky. I'm planning on spending the night somewhere near Nashville.

It was almost 50 here! I could leave the car without a jacket!

Don't worry, it is forecast to snow (at least in Cincinnati) again tomorrow.