First world whining: The pop machine in the break room has one row of diet Coke, but the machine isn't currently recognizing that row. I was not the only person staring at that inaccessible row of liquid crack with an expression deep betrayal and bereftness.

Also, my new sreaming BluRay player is refusing to see my wifi network. Like W.C. Fields, I am forced to survive on DVDs and streaming TV on my computer.

ION, my mid-winter heating bill is a third of what it was in the house. As I hoped, the drop in utilities has matched the increase in rent, so my budget is still in good shape.

I'll see what I can do, Hec, but I'm not sure I have the means.

Dear person whining that we can't still be in a drought with all this rain - shut up. You are making my Nazi-punching fist tingle a little.

Getting a haircut, same cut, and a little layer of pink on one side. Pics when done.

You guys, I went out to shovel the steps and driveway because the snow was letting up, and then I did that and now it's snowing harder again. It's ok if I just don't leave the house again this week, right?

I feel like I should do a mid-storm shovel of the sidewalk, but I really can't want to.

No leaving the house if you have to shovel more than once a day.

In yikes! weather news apparently some poor soul went over the bridge on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel when his truck got picked up by the high winds. I love the expanse, but I always refused to drive over it at night or in any kind of weather because it is super scary.

Sounds right to me, who has never lived anywhere that required snow to be shoveled.

Good lord, Laura! Wow.

I do a mid-storm shovel if it's going to change to rain or freezing rain later, because that makes the snow heavier.

Omg that would be so scary, Laura!

Mid storm shovel is silly. Don't do it. Stay inside with your cat.