Officially, spring doesn’t start for another two weeks. But as far as I’m concerned, today might just as well have been the first day of Spring.
I left the office today at 5:30, stopped off to do some grocery shopping, and when I got home a little before 7:00, there was still plenty of light for Wylie and I to take our early-evening walk.
That’s a huge improvement from last week.
The desk calendar I use at work occasionally includes some “interesting” quotations. One recent example - from no less a personage than Genghis Kahn - left me laughing:
I am the punishment of God… If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
I admit to being something of a wiseguy, so I showed this quotation to my co-worker Olive and asked, “Does this remind you of anyone you know?”
She laughed and replied, “Yes it does. But I’m an atheist.”
Olive paused for a moment and then added, “Oh. Do you think maybe that’s what I’m being punished for?”
Happy Birthday today to Theodor Geisel, one of the original “cat people.”
I just read on John’s blog about the Album Cover Meme where you create an album cover for an imaginary band (after seeing that Flickr is down, I concluded that my band’s album would be available for download only). My next stop was the Washington Post’s site where I learned that last night’s half inch of snow was just a prelude.
The forecast is for 4-8 inches of snow, and a “strong possibility” of 6-10 (or more!) inches. This will make getting to work tomorrow interesting. Plus, although it’s a DC stereotype, I really am out of bread and milk.
The exciting part of the forecast though is the possibility of isolated cases of Thundersnow. I skipped the part of the album cover meme where you choose a random Wikipedia title as the name of your band, but that’s OK.
I think we can all agree that Thundersnow would be an awesome name for a band.