Always busy, and here I promised I’d do more posting! So here’s a mashup^† of everything I’ve got going on.

• Winter has arrived with a vengeance — and by “vengeance” I mean that the schools were closed for no good reason. I guess the roads were a bit treacherous — and by “treacherous” I mean that there was snow on them.

• I’m sure this “winter storm” would be much worse if Wifey and I hadn’t spent a couple hours winterizing our porch. It used to be a three-season porch and now, at least temporarily, it’s a zero-season porch.

• I feel so proud to be an American today — if I’m not mistaken, we’re now the only developed nation that hasn’t ratified Kyoto. Read all about it here and swell with pride your own self!

• My parents were in town yesterday and took me and Wifey out to brunch. I’ve been avoiding buffets like the plague, but we’re talking about on of the best restaurants in the area. I’ve always been a sucker for sausages and I had zero of them. I had none of the carved meats, except for the little bit of roast beast Wifey put on my plate. I skipped the desert table and I hadn’t had any of the pastries, so I had a croissant, which was super fabulous. And overall, I felt I did pretty well reigning in my gotta-get-your-moneys-worth tendencies.

• Oh yeah, here’s another winter tip for all of you cold-climated people with basements. I was thinking about putting up some plywood and insulation over that big gaping hole in my basement — the steps up to the bulkhead. So there we were at The Home Depot and I sauntered over to the insulation department, thinking I might find just the thing. And I did, it’s a 4×8 piece of form board, a couple inches thick, and just the right size for the bulkhead opening. I wedged it in place and I swear you can feel the difference. So there you go.

• Youngest Daughter just called me here at the office and asked me to print some photos off of my laptop for a project she’s doing at school. I looked through my iPhoto library and all of the pictures of me are very before-esque, shall we say. So I fired up PhotoBooth, the Mac’s little picture taking program, and I took a picture of myself. Now would somebody please tell me… WHO THE HECK IS THE HANDSOME DEVIL IN THAT PICTURE?? :)

^†I know, it’s not really a mashup but I really hate that word — I hate all things that are both trendy and completely devoid of meaningfulness, and I just want to try and hasten its demise. I figure it’s got a limited number of uses before it just crumbles under its own weight. :)

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