Well. My road (2 miles from my house to pavement) is clear. Nicely clear. The sidewalks (5 E. South Street, 219, 321, 629, 28 W 4th and SJ's, 200-218, 333 through 351, office, 315 N. Richard) are all clear and salted. My personal driveway is clear. The driveway at the lodge is clear. Door into the lodge is clear, as is door to chainsaw storage area. Heck, even the far side of the lake has been plowed for the *ahem* seasonal resident who feels that tomorrow is an EXCELLENT time to come visit his small cabin in the mountains. (Apparently he doesn't get weather reports over in Stupidville and thus does not know that we had a massive storm over the weekend and are having another tomorrow.)

To top it all off, nothing is broken, nothing is stuck, and all equipment has been refueled and parked in readiness for redeployment during next snow event. I feel good.

Time before next snow event: T-24.

I wish to register a complaint. My warm and fuzzy feeling of satisfaction at a job well done should last longer than the doing-of-the-job. It took me about 48 hours to get the job done. I should NOT be out of warm-n-fuzzy for another three days.

-- Jessica
Yet again, the world uncaringly fails to measure up to my vision of how it should be.

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Jon A.: Sorry about the accident. Are you OK? How's your car?

Whoever asked about information on strategic uses of social networking: I recommend Mashable.com and DonaldLafferty.com.

I especially am fond of Don, who's a Philadelphia-area writer, because he gave me the idea for redesigning my author site, using WordPress. Thanks to some detailed instructions from him and patient help from my beloved Toanstation, I've now got a site that looks like it's from 2010 (not the stone ages of 2004). If you want to see how far it's come, just look at the original home page.

- Alyce

I have just spotted this tidbit on Amy Howard Wilson's LiveJournal, and am quoting the relevant passage for perusal of any and all old-school Star Blazers fans who read this:

I have the awesome news of all time awesome news' to share!!!! At this years I-Con in New York, we will be joined by 3 VERY special men:

Eddie Allen, the voice of Leader Desslok!
Ken Meseroll, the voice of Derek Wildstar!
Tom Tweedy, the voice of Mark Venture!

Hearing this news, I'm pretty sure I'm going to try and attend. Anyone else interested?

--Joe
Hurry, Star Force! Only 47 days left!

Eldar Spawn is leaving TODAY for London - to beat the snow! Hope they make it in time!

SubPrioress Semicolon Sue

I don't know, Joe. The last time I went to I-Con, OTAKON happened. I'm afraid to go back!

Jon A.

Jon: Sorry to hear about the car. That bites.

Alyce: Cool new look for the web site!

Joe: Take a tape recorder and get Mr. Allen to record the Desslar Soda ad in a quiet room. :-)

--Matt

Alyce - thanks for the websites on social networking. I'll check them out. I think I ran into the Mashable.com name before.

Sue - I LOVED London. I'm so jealous. Tell her I said to have a great time.

Well, I guess we're all waiting for snow now. What fun!

Jen

I'm torn between trying to set things up so that I can work from home tomorrow, and just manning up and driving on in.

Ironically, the worse the snowfall is, the better time I will have getting in to work. My car will get me through the snow without any problems; it's everyone else I am worried about. A heavy snowfall means empty roads.

Jon A.

My car is not too badly damaged. It looks like I'll be getting a new spare tire bracket (again), and they may have to do some work on the back door underneath the bracket.

It won't cost me anything, and will only take a day to do.

Jon A.

The body shop says I'm their best customer...

I don't know, Joe. The last time I went to I-Con, OTAKON happened.

Exactly -- this may be the only way to destroy it. We must return the One Con to Mount Stony Brook and cast it into the fiery Fandom from whence it was forged.

--Joe
One Con to rule them all,
One Con to find them.
One Con to bring them all,
And in the Dorkness bind them.

Blowfish:
Exactly -- this may be the only way to destroy it. We must return the One Con to Mount Stony Brook and cast it into the fiery Fandom from whence it was forged.

Gandalf, you can take that whole "we" business right over there to the King of the Eagles and see how it flies. :)

Jon A.

"The Ring and its bearer must go hence," agreed Goodgulf, "but where? Who shall guard it?"
"The elves," said Gimlet.
"The dwarves," said Legolam.
"The wizards," said Arrowroot.
"The Men of Twodor," said Goodgulf.
"That leaves only Fordor," said Orlon. "But even a retarded troll would not go there."
"Even a dwarf," admitted Legolam.

I'm torn between trying to set things up so that I can work from home tomorrow, and just manning up and driving on in.

Jon, your car may be manly, but what if the windows are only showing a blank whiteout?

--Amanda
Ok, I know it's not very likely.

Amanda: It's looking very likely that my office will not be open tomorrow, which makes it a non-issue.

Stay safe out there, everyone!

Jon A.

Jon, I almost got to change my post to "...but can it drive under instrument flight rules?", but you replied too quickly. Stay warm and dry everybody!

--Amanda

Kinda get the feeling I shouldn't even mention the 6-10 inches we're forecast to get up here.

-- Mark

Mark, I wouldn't go there if I were you.

It's been falling here since 7:30 to 8-ish at a good clip. Very pretty. I'm glad that I'm not out driving in it.

Ed doesn't have school or daycare tomorrow, and I most likely will not be at work. Snow day! Woo hoo!

Jen