Rain with possible t-storms tonight, changing to snow tomorrow. Snow likely 5 of the next 6 days. No clue as to how much, although Tuesday could prove a real winner. I am so blasted sick of this that I could scream.

At least the weekend thaw was long enough to melt the ice in the gutters. Rooftop is pretty clear. Basement is dry, though probably not for long.

Funny how having to write a certain amount each day drives one to do other things. Four loads of laundry this morning, along with the removal of about ten boxes of stuff out of the basement. Some of the newspaper wrappings were dated 1985--this was stuff my Dad had taken out of my grandmother's house after she died. One thing I found that I couldnt bring myself to toss was a small box containing a device called a "Salad Maid Vegetable Chopper." Looks like a meat grinder, but with food processor-type blades. The date in the instruction manual is 1955.

It's been two weeks since I got the wireless working, and I'm wondering how I did without it this long. The only problem is that the connection between the external hard drive and the base station keeps getting dropped. I'm wondering if this happens because the drive goes on Standby, or whether the USB connection is so slow that things get dicey and then break down. I wonder if I should switch to a firewire connection.

Why is it after midnight already?

Amidst all the website tweaks--new links and thumbnail covers of SFBC editions and such--is a new essay about The Boyz, the Mickster in particular.