This may be it...

Most of the winter so far we've gotten "Ooh noes! teh terribuhl snows is coming!" from the weather critters, and woken up to a measly inch or three on the ground and yawns all around. Last night, the news critters started saying "hrm, looks like we're going to get a nor'easter. Might be up to a foot of snow in your area. And today in politics..." Went to the supermarket this morning to pick up some oj, and the lines were normal, the crowd was actually a little light, and no sense at all of panic or even "do we have bread and milk?" worry.

Yep. The swamp Yankees are mellow. All the signs point to a major nor'easter hitting Connecticut tonight. (for those of you who aren't from eastern US coastline, a nor'easter is [very roughly] when the storm comes in off the ocean [south and east of us], slams into cold air held by the mountains to the north and west, and hammers us with high winds, sideways precipitation, and dangerous tide surges. Think a lake effect storm on steroids. It doesn't always involve snow -- ice storms are the really scary ones, actually). Stay warm, dry, and inside, if you're within the NYC-Boston coastal corridor!

Meanwhile, I had to pull an entire half-chapter from TPEMB yesterday. Well-written, with some nice character development and world-building detail...and it pushed the story in a direction I wasn't happy with. Grrr. (for those of you who knit, this is akin to having to unravel an entire row because you realize you dropped a stitch somewhere). Time to pause and do some research to make sure I get a detail right before plowing on. 20,000 words to-date, which is a little light on where I wanted to be but still respectable, about 1200 words a day. Once I start getting feedback from the beta-readers [that was a hint, guys], we'll know how well it's working...

And speaking of which -- back I go.

(hey, has anyone here ever done any stone-working or brick-laying?)


ETA: we've been downgraded to "6-8 inches of total snow accumulation." Still respectable. Pity New Haven's so damn flat, otherwise I'd haul the sled out...

you know you're a (football) fan of a certain age...

when hearing someone refer to LT making a play on the field gives you a strange surge of temporal vertigo. There really should be only one.

So, Chargers/Colts are out of the way, and it's time for the Giants to show us if they got what they got.... And for those of you in southern New England? That W00t! you may have just heard? Was me.

I have no idea what the rest of the game may look like, but that Toomer run for a TD was a thing of beauty. We have sloppy joses, chips, cookies, and soda (and scotch). We're good for whatever comes.

Go J'nts!

(and did someone make sure that Jessica got her 50 yard line ticket?)

w00t!

INTERCEPTION!

The last fricking play of the game (effectively) and Da Blue crew makes an interception in the end zone!

*dies of the high-fiving*




OMG, Eli is going on, and his brother isn't. Let the sports writers bite on THAT for a while...

tv tv and more more tv...

Jeebus I'm spamming LJ today.

It's no wonder so little work's been accomplished. Multiple hours of football, followed by Terminator: TSC Chronicles (jury's still out but I'm intrigued enough to watch tomorrow night as well) and now Masterpeice Theater's version of "Persuasion" starring, among others, Anthony Stewart Head. With muttonchops. I recognized the voice before the face. The voice is, as always, quite unmistakeable. The muttonchops are disturbing.

EtA: oh yeah, and quarterly estimated taxes are due this week, if you are so burdened with them. Bleah.