A little Lovecraftian headstone to start the day I think - marvel at the mysterious Cthulu goings on or read a good article about it here.
Woke up this morning to almost 10 inches of snow. I measured it with a ruler to check. I don't think I'll be going anywhere in the car for a few days but I'm going to have to do something that I haven't done since I passed my driving test some 25 years ago and that's walk to the supermarket which I reckon is about five miles away. I'm sure we could make it for a few days but I've run out of cigarettes, so we're in deep trouble!
Whenever it snows, it always reminds me of two things. The first one is being in Syracuse about 20 years ago in the middle of a bitching winter of -37 degrees. The other one is exactly how long it used to take me to do my 75-house paper delivery job on foot through some of the harshest Welsh winters. When it wasn't snowing, it used to take me about 2 hours on my bike, but in the snow on foot, probably more like 5 hours. Good times...
I mention this simply because I'm snowed in with the kids today. They went out for half an hour and then wanted to come back in because it's "cold". I said they had to stay outside. Is that mean or character building? Last thing any parent wants is little Jessies who can't handle the real world… isn't it?
This Jessie type behaviour came as a bit of a shock, as only 24 hours earlier in similar conditions, Ellie made the 80 mile trip to the O2 arena to check out her first rock show (30 Seconds to Mars) and didn't moan once - or so I hear anyway. She's pretty stoked with her gig t-shirt as well and I found myself wishing that I could get that excited about going to see a band again - in any kind of weather! I've bought a fair amount of merchandise over the years but at my first gig - UFO at the Royal Court in Liverpool - I didn't buy any band merch at all and instead came home with a copy of MAD magazine summer special from the train station. Maybe I've always been this way and just never really paid it much attention before.
Currently listening to out for: the sound of the snow plough and gritting truck to rescue me
Currently reading: far too much into why there are so many numbers in the post.
