More Snow

I get to look out my window at work and see the snow fall. It's purty. They're saying 3-5 more inches, I'm thinking it'll be on the low side of that. The streets are going to continue to be messy, which will curtail my commuting by bike. I just don't feel like riding in the dark on slippery streets alongside drivers who have forgotten how to drive on snow. Since I'm not able to ride outside much lately, I've set the trainer up in the basement. Bleh. No matter how cold it is down there, I end up drenched in sweat after a few minutes of spinning, and I'm not spinning that hard. I hooked up a crappy little odometer and figured I did about 9 miles in half an hour. I'm doing it on the fixed gear, so there's no real rest, just pedalling for however long I can do it without going crazy.

The Christmas decorations are going up in the Stocking household. There has been constant nagging by the younger two to get this done. On Sunday morning, while I was trying to enjoy my coffee and the paper, there was a tremendous scraping noise coming from the basement. It was 'Nika dragging the big plastic bins of Christmas crap across the floor to the stairs. Kinda like the dog smacking his food dish around when we are late feeding him. Soooo, Sunday the decorations started going up, sans tree, since neither TOYH or I felt like driving around in the aftermath of the snowstorm. After today's snow, we're not going out tree-buying tonight either. There was the usual cursing by TOYH because half the lights she has strung on the fake garlands were "burned out." Then they'd pop on. Then they're off. Last year we just had a half-lit garland. Apparently this holiday obscenity will not be repeated this year, and a whole new string of lights has be applied to the garland. Christmas is saved! The girls put up strings of lights in their rooms. KyKy tried to explain to me that her lights were intermittent, and then there were sparks, and then the lights would come on. Turns out one of those little mini-bulbs broke and there were exposed wires arcing. I know because I touched them and got a shock. I told her to keep her lights unplugged until we replace the bulb.

In the past 5 minutes TOYH called from her trek home from Costco and Jon called me from picking up his son at school to tell me that the roads are terrible. I guess I'm going to leave now and sit in stuck traffic all the way home. Woohoo.