Update, 9:24AM: Well, I just got back inside after shoveling for most of the past hour and a half. When I came in, there were icicles in my beard all the way to my ears, in my hair, moustache, and eyebrows. My coat, it’s soggy from the sweat that didn’t freeze on my head. Eww.
Sadly, I wasn’t thinking ahead, and had the digital camera in my (outside) coat pocket the whole time. For some reason it seemed to think its battery was dead, so no picture. Oh well. The temp actually fell while I was shovelling, too, from one-below to four-below.
Sheesh. If you ignore all the hoopla about some has-been pop-star baring some skin, there doesn’t seem to be much news to comment on today. Yeah, there’s some politics happening, but I haven’t been very interested in that, either. So here comes the miscellany…
- U digs out from under winter’s wrath. Most of the sidewalks in residential areas still aren’t shovelled. I’ll be heading out this morning to shovel one last time (for this storm). Of course now that it’s done snowing, it’s being cold instead. Not bone-chillingly cold like last week, but back below zero, even without the wind-chill. Oh well, at least I’ll have an opportunity to work up a sweat that will freeze.
- With Valentine’s Day a little more than a week away, maybe it’s time to buy an imaginary girlfriend on eBay. Seems like there are worse ways to blow $20. But when I double-check the link this morning, I find that the couple hundred listings that were there last week are gone, and I can only find one match. Oh well. So much for that idea. [boing boing]
- Couples Watch Mating Animals To Get In The Mooo-d has another idea for Valentine’s Day. Go to the San Diego Zoo and spent $100 to watch animals getting it on. Somehow I don’t think that plan’s going to work for me. [fark!]
- Steph can’t believe I missed the Coolest FireWire Hub Evah. Frankly, neither can I. Instead I bought a boring FireWire hub which I haven’t even bothered connecting, since I haven’t needed the things I was planning to plug into it enough to bother unpacking them yet. [steph]
- Secretary of state urges college students to replace aging election judges since 80 percent of judges are more than 60 years old. It pays $6 an hour, and a new plan would allow the wages to go straight to a non-profit of your choice.