We’re expecting another snowstorm in the next few hours.  Earlier this morning we walked to the store to get a few things in preparation for being stuck up in here in the event the power goes out.  There’s no real way to beat the cold when that happens, but we can eat our way through the chilly evenings now.  I was going to buy beer and wine so we could drink our way through, but it would have been difficult to carry up the steep and icy hills.
I only fell …

Those of us around Seattle are preparing for Arctic Blast ’08.  Everyone is either at home from school and work, or waddling around town in their thickest items of clothing.  Seattle hasn’t yet gotten the snow we have been told to expect at any moment, but it sure as shit is cold out there.
One of my favorite things about this cold weather in Seattle is how people who have come here from places like Chicago or the east coast talk shit about how we think 28 degrees is cold out.  …

I have a sinus infection related to my surgery.  I am back on antibiotics.  How did I figure this out?  For two days I have been smelling what I can only describe as: if you put some hamburger in direct sunlight for several days until it got nice and rotting, then shoved it up my nose.  Super!
I’m totally grossed out.
In other news, Janie and I have done no gift shopping for anyone anywhere.  We’ve been planning on making at least half of our gifts by hand, and you know what?  …

Waking up in a hospital post-surgery is a bit alarming, sort of like waking up after a long night of drinking and passing out in the shower of the football player’s dorm room across the hall.  You open your eyes and realize that you made it, you’re not dead.  Your chest and throat are heavy with the effects of the breathing apparatus or the anesthesia or the “just for fun” choking games that doctors play on patients in an attempt for levity after a long day, I don’t know.  There’s …

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