It's Thursday, January 29th and we are in the middle of dealing with the effects of a winter storm that has been beating us up since Monday night. Yesterday I managed to convince myself I'd like it if I'd go out and clean off my car. It took me over an hour to get the ice off of all but one window before running out of steam....and, this was with help from being able to get inside and turning on the heater and defroster, too. The passenger side tires are iced in up the sides of the tire a couple of inches or more....Scott assures me that it will break free with no problem...sure looks like it will be a problem. Speaking of Scott...he had to throw down ashes behind his tires to be able to get out of the driveway this morning. I asked him if he'd thought to take a pail of ashes with him in case he got stuck somewhere else, but he poopooed the idea. A part of me...the evil part...is snickering inside hoping....the more sane part sure hopes he'll be alright without them.

Many of my friends are without power. I've not noticed mine flickering today, but it did a bunch of times earlier this week. I've offered use of our home, but so far not been taken up on the offer....of course, they'd have to deal with my street...which is trecherous. No salt truck or scaper has been down this one....and, of course...scraping might just cause it to be slicker until things can melt some.

We're also still on baby watch....today Kelly had an appointment to discuss possibilities with her doctor. I'm trying to not call down there every five minutes....thinking them phoning here would be less intrusive...but...dunno....it's hard!!

OK...that's all for now....not getting anything of note accomplished other than computering...so...think I'll force myself to go do something for about 15minutes or so....bye...