How Snow Can Be Your Friend and Worst Enemy.

I'm going to talk about snow. Why? Because I don't have anything better to do. Why? Because I was supposed to be somewhere else today. But I'll get to that later.

Minneapolis got a nice pretty blanket of snow yesterday. It was timed perfectly: it came at such a time that I didn't have to go to work, lingered enough I got to skip the company party and stopped in time for the airport to clean itself up by morning. It was 6 inches, which is enough to tangle the city up for a bit, but... "Who cares?" I said to myself. "I'm moving my car before the plows get to that side anyway, and parking it at mom's." None of this moving it from one side of the road to another and then back again in a complicated dance of drivers and snowplows. So far, it's been my friend.

But wait! The east coast just had to have a storm of thier very own. So flight cancelled; back to the fierce parking competition that arises in densely populated urban areas and....not much to do but tell you guys about it. Sigh.