We survived! Woohoo!

We still have power and everything. We have one tree in the back yard that has a significant reduction in the number of branches, but none came near to the house.

Whew!

October 29, 2011:

Heavy wet snow, two brown outs so far tonight. The wind howling through the trees out back. Obnoxious people doing a lot of yelling at what sounds like a storm party somewhere nearby. Paranoia at every bump as we wait for the pre-Halloween storm to take away our electricity (I just read a Facebook post from our mayor stating that as of 9:00pm tonight, about 80 minutes ago, there were 270,000 Massachusetts residents without power). All of this piled on top of the weather keeping us from going to see my friend Jeff’s new band play in Lowell tonight.

What I’m trying to say is, this storm just sucks ass.

Although, I did get to visit my folks today as I went to their house to pull a 3,000 pound air conditioner out of their window, and Jen and I got to visit Larry and Nawal and their son, who was very shy at first but then very sociable, because Larry needed help with a car issue, and Jen cooked a fantastic chicken piccata dish for dinner, and I played around with asp.net a little before my beautiful bride and I sacked out on the couch with a movie.

So I guess what I mean to say is that the storm totally blows, but everything else today has been pretty great.

The cellar is dry. Please stay that way.

I’m celebrating this week. Why? Because Jen’s business trip to Europe that at one point was scheduled for this week was postponed to next year.

That’s why.

I try not to use foul language when I post things here, but Jen just told me that they upped the snow fall predictions for our area tonight. We are now expecting 6-10 inches of snow.

Mother nature can lick my sack.

The bitch.

Just a random, unplanned Friday night visit to Lowell.

I watched some of game six of the World Series last night.  Just a couple of innings.  Then I switched to radio and listened to a couple more innings.  It was terrible.  Both teams were playing like little leaguers.  It was shameful at times.  I turned it off and went to sleep.  I didn’t want to hear the team I picked lose because they forgot how to play defense.

But now I find out they won?  The Cardinals won game six after scoring two runs in the ninth to send the game to extra innings, scoring two runs in the 10th to preserve extra innings, and then scoring on a David Freese walk off home run in the 11th.

So the Cardinals have a chance to win it all and make me look like I knew what I was talking about when I picked them, and I have one more chance to use that MLB At Bat 11 app to listen to live game radio.

Go Cardinals!

I wanted to take some long exposure pictures of the falling snow but by the time I figured out how to do it the snow had stopped.

So in the spirit of Halloween I took a few pictures that made me look like a spoooooooky fat ghost.

I need a life.