In Which Your Obedient Serpent Sees His Shadow

[athelind]

After sleeping in far too late yesterday, I went to bed earlyish last night, determined to roll out of bed at a decent hour, hop in the shower, and fire up the computer for the usual rounds of email and job boards.

I did indeed wake up around 7-ish, looked at the clock -- and, rather than blurry LED numerals, saw nothing. The power was out.

No Net. No TV. No lights in the bathroom.

I wound up going back to bed until 8:45, then taking a shower by candlelight.

(I do so love bathrooms in candlelight.)

Needless to say, the power came back five minutes after I got out of the shower.

It was only a few minutes ago that I realized that it was the Second of February, and that I had gotten up, seen my shadow, and gone back into my hole.

Looks like six more weeks of winter, from here.

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More water-themed dreams last night; how much of them were due to the sound of rain outside, I can't tell. Not the usual crystal-clear water, this time; in this one, the nearby creek actually ran through the backyard. The usual gang of Generic Dream Friends and I were looking it over. The water was higher than usual; I noticed that conditions were exactly right for a flash flood, and suggested that we should get back over the creek and into the house. Of course, everyone blew me off, right up until the big muddy rush of water hit.

For some reason, I was wearing robes of some sort, as was at least one of the others.

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Comments

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

It doesn't. It's the Days of Idiocy, a state holiday where the majority of the population forgets how to drive and runs around like its the end of the world because there's ice on the ground. The rest of the period that might be called Winter elsewhere is either Wet or Grey, two regional terms that are not mutually exclusive.

Mind you, what we got on Christmas Eve, while it was only 18 hours worth, was pretty wintery. And speaking as the uncle to a three-year-old who had never seen snow, it was awesome.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

You know, I always have to wonder when someone says that the people around him "forget how to drive" in inclement weather -- are you grousing because the people forget that they should be driving more cautiously in bad conditions, or are you grousing because they ARE driving more cautiously?

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

The latter. The fact that people are driving down the expressway at 70 mph, while it's coated in ice terrifies me.