Ok, it’s cold. Winter has fallen across the US, and it’s cold in a lot of places. Mid-January. Not really a surprise. Not record cold either, or record snowfall, just “cold”. Yeah it’s unpleasant to be out in the cold. Yeah, it’s more difficult to drive safely, which btw isn’t actually a concern for a large part of the population even on a sunny day, judging by what I see on the road. Yeah, some people always die when it’s cold. They die when it’s hot, and they die when it’s perfectly average. I am tired, tired, tired of people attempting to manipulate me and the rest of the country. FFS. Do what it takes to deal with the reality we live in. This used to be called common sense.
And there endeth the rant.
Nothing new here. Kids are home, because the roads are slick and the buses aren’t set up to deal with it. Neither are the parents for that matter. The rarity of the situation means that prudent stewards of our tax money didn’t spend it “just in case”. Well, they spent it on something else, with even less chance of solving any issues, unless their issue is a lack of hookers and blow, but in any case, it doesn’t make sense for Houston to have stockpiles of salt, and snowplows. I was quite shocked to see the tollroad spraying something on the road surface Sunday as part of their “protocol.” Shocked that they had the spray rig, shocked that they had anything to put down…
But hey, someone was doing some disaster planning, and they actually bought stuff, trained on its use, and deployed it, instead of leaving the plan in a three ring binder on someone’s shelf. I’m kinda impressed.
Spent yesterday doing small jobs around the house.
Supposed to do a pickup today, maybe more than one, but I’ll bet they wave us off. In that case, I’ll do more stuff around the house.
There’s always stuff.
Year end adds additional stuff too.
Do some stuff today. Inventory, polish, clean, read a manual, touch base with a friend, or stack. Or just do some relationship maintenance…
nick