And, to quote myself -- "What!"

So, now, it's snowed again, and I'm sick. I really hope it's that flu that everyone's afraid of right now, because now would be the time to get it. I know about 1918, and, if we're comparing it to that, it's better to get it now than if it repeats the way 1918 did.

There was another storm before that -- I got pictures, and never got 'round to uploading them until now [you can guess why based on yesterday's post].

I've got them up now, though. They're here, but mostly they're on page 2.

Most of the first snow is probably not very interesting -- snow on fresh, new green stuff. Somewhere in there is a picture I took at Taco Bell, though. We were sitting at one of those 'tall' tables, with the higher chairs than usual. It was just kinda...odd to see how I could only reach the cross-bar in the chair, but Gremlin could actually reach the floor.

Found it.

It's not really all that special. I'm just...pointing out how much shorter I am. Or how tall he is.

I think there was one other one that I wanted to post....

I like this one. It was accidental, but...kinda neat. Most of the pictures from that night are neat in an accidental way, because the 'snow mist' kept getting in the way of everything. I could either get pictures that were too dark, or I could use the flash, and end up getting a whole bunch of...haze over everything, which sometimes turned out okay.

I couldn't get very many close-up shots like I wanted. There was no wind, but the trees wouldn't stop moving. It was very disorienting.

I found out about it this morning, but I wasn't sure whether or not it was actually going to happen. It looks like it is. I'm glad we went to the store this morning.

I was able to get a bunch of nice 'before' shots, showing all the nice new buds on the plants [with snow on them], and all the robins about to end up in frozen hell.

Some of the pictures are blurry, because I took them without stopping.

Clicking on the image will take you to the album. I picked this picture because, well, it's close to the beginning of the album, and it shows how very...clear the pavement was. The snow on the ground there was on a branch that had fallen, and was cleared out of the way before I could get a picture of it.

I'm kinda sorry I didn't get any video of the storm as it was starting, but I was kinda loaded down, and in a hurry to get home. And I didn't want to slip and fall and destroy the Mino, since it's not exactly mine.

...but I just went out and got video of the storm as it is right now. I'm going to try to convert that so I can put it up here. No telling how that's going to work out -- I don't even know if I still have that plugin, or if it even works.

They really meant it. There's a real storm. And I understand why all the schools closed when there wasn't even more than a hint of a dusting on the ground.

There will, of course, be more later.

And now, since I need to kill time and not do anything with them, I'm adding stuff to the gallery. Like pictures of my new keyboard.

It lights up. Isn't it neat?

Also, there's some new stuff in the Digicam/2008 album.

That's my hair, all frosted over on that one really, really cold day.

And now I'm going all out of order. This is just a neat picture I managed to get of the moon, and an interesting ring around it.

This is the small 'insta-blizzard' from the 18th. It was pleasant enough when we left the house, and suddenly, there were all these tiny, hard snowballs [they weren't flaky, and they weren't quite ice] coming in sideways.

And this is the new 'open' sign on the church. Tacky....

Each of those should lead to a whole album of other pictures. I want chips now, and cannot be bothered to say much more until I get them.

Like today, when I have to walk to the game store to get controllers for my SNES. As it turns out, 'not funni' wasn't meant to be a joke. It was a mistake, instead of a 'ha ha, I have wrapped your controller to make you wait, for I am cruel and unusual mom!'

None of that this year, though. Unless you count the waiting, which I'm okay with, or the good-natured teasing, which I'm ignoring the way all kids can ignore their parents.

She probably doesn't deserve the ignoring part, but I've got a good excuse. I've been shredding stuff with my new shredder [it crosscuts, and believe me, it's not easy to put together something that comes out of the other side of this thing. I tried], and rearranging bits of the livingroom, which I have to get done before tomorrow, or else there won't be any room to even open presents.

Later, I might actually have enough space cleared that I can arrange the presents nicely somewhere. Maybe under a little whiteboard with a little dry-erase tree drawn on it for...I don't know. For themeing, since at least one of the nametags I saw said 'From Santa'....

...and now, I'm wanted downstairs.

...meh.