Weather is not climate

This is the “maybe an inch” of snow that was predicted. In the spring this will be good, because the area needs more water, but right now it’s a major pain.

When I was a lot younger, I had a do-or-die attitude about snow. One time, while on a business trip, that attitude nearly killed me when driving from Denver to Fort Collins, Colorado. In heavy snow, with very poor visibility, I almost drove off the edge of a cliff. Today I’m sitting this one out at home until the snow lets up… which… it seems… it has just done. One thing I won’t do is mistake this weather as proof that global warming doesn’t exist. Tell it to the polar ice that’s melting.

Last minute dinner invite

Had a great surprise tonight. Joe Sinnott’s son Mark called Denro to say he was in town with his wife Belinda and their daughter Erin, who’s attending college in Boston. Erin is a writer, who already has two published novels to her name, with a third in the works right now.

We all met up downtown and went out to dinner. I love talking comics and music, but I have to take a backseat to Mark and Dennis when they get going on sports. My sport is running, and being not far from the Boston Marathon finish line this evening, I’m wavering on my decision to give up 26.2-mile road races.