Awoke to find that the 1-2" of snow they had predicted for my area had turned into 5-6". Actually, I knew that last night, but I was hoping that the predicted roaring winds would blow some of it away.

I look out the window, and see that the tree branches don't seem to be moving much. Maybe it's because they're weighted down with So Much Unpredicted Snow.

I know what I'll be doing this morning. Shovel, here I come. After coffee and hot cereal.

In other news, awoke to find Mickey licking his leg. He has a strange little growth just under his left rear hock that consists of pad tissue. Well, for some reason, he decided to lick that raw. It's now bandaged. At least it's not his foot this time, but still.

Today is my last day of vacation. I want so much to take the rest of the week off, but after distributing days around Ninc Conference, Wiscon, and Worldcon, I found that I didn't have all that many left. So I need to nurse them, drat it. It was nice to be home. Got a few repair things done--installed a light under one of the kitchen cabinets, and a couple of door stops behind a couple of doors. Stripped wallpaper and hung up decorative molds (cooking vessels, not, like, *mold*). Made things look a little better around here. Still haven't attacked the filing/paper shoveling, but I did buy a nice file folder for 2008 stuff.

I also spent altogether too much time shoveling snow. The weatherguy on last night's news said that after this cold snap, we may be in for a warming trend for the rest of the winter, with less precip in the form of snow. Live in hope.

Must make coffee.