I'm in exciting Omaha for two days. Got in yesterday, couldn't get to sleep early because of the time change and because the stupid hotel doors are super loud when people go in and out. The downtown seems cute, but there was supposed to be 3-4" of snow today (it seems to have stopped now so I don't know if that was reached) and school was canceled (I just checked though and supposedly the people I'm meeting will be there...). I was surprised at that--3" of snow cancels school?? In Nebraska? I expected more heartiness from them! Maybe just because it was happening all morning through the commute?

Mmm, steaks. Sorry, that and Mutual of Omaha are my Omaha associations.

My head is still tender from hitting the sun visor yesterday (I am kind of outraged that the injury (mild as it actually is) seems so disproportionate to the event. It's not like I smacked my head into a lead pipe). It really only hurts when I poke at it, but I have this compulsion to keep poking at it to see if it still hurts.

Maybe she wants video, Jesse?

Oh god, I didn't even think of that. Yikes.

This was a slightly startling juxtaposition:

... fiberglass goats?

I hate it when that happens.

DC did a couple of these - one year it was pandas, another it was donkeys and elephants. Some of them are still around - once they were all painted, they were auctioned off for some cause; they're in yards around town, many of them worse for the wear.

Juliebird, could you take one of the fiberglass goats and use it to mould pieces of the chicken wire around? then use a different wire to hold the pieces together. It would probably be a bit sturdier than trying to do it freehand.

And, for your amusement, last summer a local nursery had a "compost appreciation day".

I just changed a "whom" to "who" in a Google doc. I'm pretty sure no one will notice, but I am giddy with righteous grammar correction.

I appreciate compost!

Some of them are still around - once they were all painted, they were auctioned off for some cause; they're in yards around town, many of them worse for the wear.

We had pigs, and it's amusing to drive down a residential street and see a giant fiberglass pained pig on someone's porch. A lot of businesses bought them, too, and put them in their lobbies.

I just changed a "whom" to "who" in a Google doc. I'm pretty sure no one will notice, but I am giddy with righteous grammar correction.

I hear angels singing.

I appreciate compost!

Me, too! It's awesome! And since we started composting food waste, our trash output is pretty small and (most importantly) doesn't stink up the kitchen. We loved vacationing in California, because of the compost containers in the rental places we stayed. The owner of the cottage in Mendocino was tickled that we were so excited about her compost bin.

We are dorks.

::compost nerd high five::

Oh, the arthritis is bad today. If you're going to storm, just do it already! I need my hands! And my shoulder. And my hip.

Meara, if you're near Kitchen Table I recommend it. [link]

I feel like my neck and my skull are engaged in a blood feud.