Here is a snap of the snow as it fell at our house this past Monday morning. The interesting thing about this shot is that it seems to reveal a selective nature to the snow itself, i.e., it has only fallen on the South side of our street. You can see the bushes and driveway on my side are bare and dry while the entire driveway and even part of the street across the way are covered in a soft blanket of white.

Anyone care to explain this one?

I know BopOp and Grumpy can’t resist the urge.

I hadn’t even got it all the way out of the packaging and when I pulled on the clear-tubey end of this nice, rechargeable, wireless, LED light that my brother gave me for christmas…it came apart in my clutches.
But man, that packaging was aggressive. That stuff is ALWAYS hard to get open. They should have made this clear-tubey thing out of the packaging, then I wouldn’t be posting this.

You may even notice the yellow wire hanging out whereupon previously it didn’t really.

Good news in all of this; my years of breaking things has instilled a tolerable ability to put things back together again. And in many cases they are reassembled in a manner consistent with my usage of them. That is, I put them back together to withstand me. This time was no different. I soldered that little yellow wire back on with about 5 grams of solder. I put that at about 4.5 grams more than necessary. This overage was rather in deference to my weak soldering skills as opposed to my ‘make it bigger, better, stronger’ approach. I would’a been happy with 3.5 grams but eh.

Anyway, after that I packed all the entrails back in, smeared 1/4 tube of super glue all around that clear-tubey thing and ran it down till it stopped…then a bit more for good measure.

It worked! In retrospect, I shoulda tried to test the light before I rammed all that super glue up it’s wahTubey but, again, eh. I have proceeded to use that super-tubey LED light no less than 6 times in the past 5 days. It is very chic.

I finally uploaded all of my images from the holidays and found a pretty nice one of BopOp’s balloon.

I also posted, on YouTube, my one good video of the event. You can hear me half-laughing (and Emma too) as I bend over backwards and she nearly falls off my shoulders. She didn’t, of course, primarily because she got her hooks into every crevice of my face and unhinged my right contact in the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhCMR9IUIRI

Good thing I have learned…they are disposables.