DOAB Week of January 1, 2007

Then again, I also have no intention of filling in all of the detail of the last two weeks. I'll just say it's been damned busy - and a fair level of frustration (work-related) has gone into it as well. There's nearly no point to me covering all of this for you, so I'll just say "still here."

In truth, I was somewhat hoping to find some sort of alternate system to manage this site. No such luck. I prefer having a local backup - sometimes I actually preview the stuff before I upload it - and I infinitely prefer the level of control I have. So far, nothing I've found comes even close.

So I'm sticking with this. Hope you folks don't mind.

As for the rest of life, the universe, and everything, we got snow new year's day, then it pretty much mostly melted, until long about Friday, when we started getting The Cold. Around here, typically, the third week of January (gee, which we're almost in) is our coldest of the year. Not that I'm complaining. Typical lows around here for next week are in the single-digits to teens below zero - and we've yet to have a below-zero low, so far as I've seen.

We did, however, get another two inches (so far) of snow. I've heard tell that the Eskimos have something like 17 words for snow, describing the size and texture of the flakes, the moisture content of the snow, and other fun, pertinent details. Tonight's snow was, by our January standards, fairly typical. It's a fine powder that takes a long time to accumulate - tonight Ann and I were in the grocery store for about an hour. The parking lot, your basic asphalt black when we went in, turned into a completely-snow-coated white in the hour and twenty minutes we were in there.

So that's winter around here.

Not much more to report than that - I need to spend some time designing, and building, a futon frame. I'm not going to build the fancy fold-up-fold-down style - this is going to have two sets of legs, and be fairly simple - mostly because I don't want it to fall apart - like the current frame is.

And I hope to post more regularly the rest of this year. We'll just see how it goes, though.

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