Woke up this morning to a sprinkling of snow on everything. Nothing sticking to roadways, mind you, but a nice amount to brush off the Saturn on the driveway. And enough to give me the yim-yams.<\/p>\n
You see, my Saturn coupe (“Pinkie”) is a featherweight. All those nice flexible rubber side panels and all that great gas mileage means that it’s got all the stick-the-road-iveness of a large piece of newspaper.<\/p>\n
Shortly after moving to our present house, I pulled onto I-25 at Dry Creek during a snow storm and proceeded to do a Speed Racer (full 360-degree spin) across all lanes, fortunately torqueing off into the right-hand margin. Nothing like looking head-on into the lights of cars hurtling toward you to start your day.<\/p>\n
Often, in inclement weather, I’ll take the van. Since Margie’s going into the office today with Katherine, that’s not an option.<\/p>\n
Of course, the roads were fine — wet (it was still snowing) but fine. Even better than that, since much of C-470 has been repaved over the last few months, and so there were no ruts or other problems like that.<\/p>\n
Still — not the way to start my day.<\/p>\n
It’s also a sign that we need to get the garage cleaned up in order to get the Saturn inside, so that the way I actually start my day is not brushing off snow and scraping off ice at 5:30 a.m. That means I’ve got a lot of tools and crap to get put away, we have to find someone to donate the old fridge to, and we have to get a claim in on the ruined luggage and artwork from the basement, currently residing in the garage. Hrm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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