First, an update on that truck. Here's where it got parked.

Sorry, for some reason they're not linking to the images directly right now [Edit: now they are. It was easier than I thought]. Maybe I'll look into that when I'm not so tired and hungry that I'm making stupid mistakes, like confusing 'day' for 'night'.

I'm not sure why they didn't try to put the thing up in the driveway. Maybe they're hoping to get a new one when someone destroys it coming through to deliver something. Or maybe they're really into getting sued by the last remaining survivor of the person whose house burns down while the fire truck can't get to it because some asshole parked in the middle of the road.

Better not be me in that situation.

On to the night shots.

These are of the window-pile. I think it was around six. Ish. Not exactly the greatest shots, but I'd just woken up for the first time, and I thought I should probably do something about it.

Things are going to be dark for a little bit, and a little blurry, because I'm using the Night/Low light 'scene' setting on my camera.

This is the inside of the screen door. There's snow on the inside as well as the outside.

The door is pushing away a few inches of snow, and under all that is our porch. And our milk box. But not my Overnight-Shipped Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess GameCube players guide. I'll be going off to complain to Amazon.com about that in a minute, because UPS didn't change the date on me.

So much for shoveling, huh?

Those were all from around the same time. This next batch is from...around nine. So, about three hours later, I guess.

There's a window over there. And one of those drain spout things from the gutter. And possibly a faucet. And ground. Somewhere.

I'm trying to get a shot of the interesting snow drift pattern here, but Gremlin keeps moving and getting in the shot a little.

Also, someone parked their truck there. It better not destroy my mailbox when someone needing to get through in something bigger comes along.

There's actually more than one bush in this picture. And one of those little planter things. Also, there's almost that funny-ridged snowdrift I was trying to get, but the low-light scene setting seems to soften things a bit when it's not outright blurring them into strange new things.

I've got a foot down there somewhere, in a snow boot.

Gremlin's taller than I am, so it doesn't really help that he's cutting a trail for me. He's taking longer strides than I can manage.

It only looks like the snow is up to his knees, but what you're not seeing is the slightly more than six inches that's packed enough to stand on under all that.

I wonder if the rose bushes that used to be under all this are going to be there when it thaws....

Thanks, wind. Yes, really funny joke there, with the almost clear patch of ground next to the two feet of snow. Ha ha.

Blurred ridge on that drift again.

I give up and turn on the flash. There's the ridge, slightly more defined. Oh! And a rose bush! Wow.

There's all three elements, sorta. The funny, funny patch of visible ground, a few bushes, and the snow drift.

They park gud. Also, it looks like there was plenty of cleared bits for the UPS guy to come through. What's wrong, your amazing truck technology not up to the same standards as a little stop-motion reindeer?

Here's a series of shots where I pretty much fail to get the really, really interesting snowdrift pattern on the roof of another house. Probably because there's all those stupid, stupid lights hanging there....

More blurry lights. Yay for my amazing picture-taking skills.

Another failed snowdrift picture.

Turning the flash on almost helps this time.

Of course, turning on the flash suddenly gets me involved in standing around and waiting for the wind to blow again so I can try to get the interesting blowing-snow pattern....

I don't think it worked.

...I don't know. I don't even remember what I was looking at.

Oh, look. A snow drift. We haven't seen one of these in forever.

Oh, look, a snow drift. Wait, it's the same one.

And that's it for the pictures, for now. It's still snowing out there [as you can see by all the funny white spots that show up everywhere whenever I turn on the flash], so there's bound to be even more snow later for me to take pictures of.

Tracking-wise, I'm just not expecting much at all. Mom's stuff probably won't even make it to the sort facility in Commerce City until Friday, and I won't see it until Tuesday, because they're completely incapable of delivering on a Saturday or Sunday, and you can just forget about Monday.

I also won't see my players guide until then -- either of them, since, by some fucked-up Christmas Miracle, the collectors edition I had ordered shipped today instead of in January. I guess I can't complain -- at least I'm getting it [unlike MST3K Volume 10]. And the CF card and CD wallets I'm getting from California?

I think I'm just going to blame UPS for ruining Christmas preemptively here, because they probably will. That's about the only thing I can count on, from them.