How I Feel

Snow: Awww, so pretty! Such fun, with the sledding and snowball fights and skiing and snow angels! A winter wonderland! An excuse to revisit childhood, since getting to work is impossible. What's not to love about snow!

Well, let's see.

How about: I just spent 3.5 hours digging out my car. I estimate I shifted over a ton of snow. By hand, people! Every muscle in my body is screaming bloody murder, and I know from grim experience that means tomorrow I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD SO MUCH AS A PEN IN MY HAND WITHOUT AGONY. Typing is already unpleasant.

And we are forecast to receive between 10 and 20 inches more snow beginning tomorrow afternoon.

See the expression on that kid in the picture? That's me, except times 1000.

Pan-Child Playing in the Snow

I love that this thoroughly heathen image is placed just outside the former baptistry (now a garden shop) at the National Cathedral.

Snowmaggedon 2010

Feeling lucky to have heat and power, but kicking myself for not getting some more groceries into the joint. I have enough pasta for a day or two, and milk for coffee, but that's about it.

Wish I'd bought those snowboots I couldn't be bothered with.

A Bend in the River

It's snowing here. A lot. The first blizzard was dubbed "Snowpocalypse." I'm calling this one "Snowmaggedon."

Since I wasn't able to set foot out of my place today (and tomorrow's not looking so good either), you'll have to make do with another picture from my last visit to Great Falls.

Quod Severis Metes

Blogger informed me that they are ceasing to support FTP publishing to my webserver in the next month or so. So now I'm scrambling to find an alternative. Looks like it's going to be WordPress.

Y'all don't need to do anything except keep coming back, and maybe update your RSS feed information when the change happens.

A Little Video

While I was at Great Falls I shot a few brief clips in the camera's AVHCD Lite video format. Of course I forgot that vertical is still basically verboten in video (although I think it makes for very interesting moving pictures). Here's what they look like cobbled together hastily in iMovie.

What's interesting to me is that the water appears to be moving much more quickly in these images than I perceived it at the time. Video artifact or trick of the mind?

They Flee From Me

Most of the time, to be honest, the deer in these parts just stand around and look at you as if to say, "Yeah, and then what?" But these were gals, and a couple of them looked to be young, so they were a little less inclined to hold still and pose properly. Hence the less-than-stellar image quality (well, that, and the light was disappearing).