After a week of hearing about little else, the storm of the century ended up leaving us about 3 inches of snow – which was what the only guys I trust had said almost from the beginning. It was enough hype to make everyone cancel for doggy daycare so Maverick is home. I knew this would happen, I could probably have gotten out to take him, but getting back up my driveway when Bear hadn’t plowed? Nah, not happening. However. Maverick is totally bored and outside barking at random things. I’m sure they’re very important things but I really wish he’d hush up about them awhile. We’ve played the indoor-outdoor game all day. This is why he goes to daycare.

I haven’t taught a class in 6 months and was assigned one I haven’t taught in over a year. There have been changes to the power points, and a few other fun things, so I’m attempting to catch up – and playing the indoor-outdoor game is impeding my progress. I’m also really easily distracted so I keep having to check Facebook, Threads, etc.

In my defense, it’s been an interesting news day with the election confirmation and Justin Trudeau sort of resigning. And apparently there’s yet another storm of the century looming for the weekend. (There’s a local group of weather fearcasters who hype every storm, and all their posts are all caps – as someone put it, like a terrorist threat. They are very rarely correct, nearly always downgrade their predictions at the last minute and then say, “look, we got it right, AGAIN! Aren’t we awesome?” I love making fun of them. It astonishes me how many people continue to follow them and worship at the altar of their greatness.)

Bear just left for work, he’ll be home in about 5 hours. He was basically harassed this morning for not going in early – umm, driveway, 850 feet of driveway, snow covered driveway. His boss offered to come get him. I told him to let her, if she could navigate that driveway, which goes down a hill, around a curve and then continues that curve up a hill, when it’s covered with snow, then I’d love to see it. 4-wheel drive be damned, I’m betting she would have ended up in the pond. And that would be worth seeing. (Okay, we would have pulled her out! Maybe. After a while. There’s no water in the pond! Geesh)

So I’m sitting here blogging instead of updating syllabi. And that makes me think about how long I’ve been blogging. I started when it was a new thing, had no clue what this was about, back in the days of Blogger. Yep, I’m that old!