28 January 2009

snow days

Being trapped inside (or at least at home with nowhere to go) tends not to lend itself to writing moods. I prefer to sit around and videogame or watch The Empire Strikes Back. If it's especially pretty out, I'll do photos. This is what I did tonight.

Well, first, we got ready and tried to go grocery shopping. Well, tried to get into the car by chipping away at the ice with the hilt blade of one of my swords, and then I crawled through the boot into the back seat to shove the doors open rather than tug on tiny plastic handles to get the doors open. Oh, and then the fucking thing was stuck in the space, and some people who were stuck this morning at 5:30 came and helped us push the car out of the damn space. Eventually we got out of the car park and onto Green River to go grocery shopping.

That was a stupid idea ... mainly because the grocery store had no power. There were also a lot of people in that no-power-having grocery store. We decided I could just get food tomorrow when I come home from class (because USI WILL be in session tomorrow). That's when my parents rang to offer to take us out to dinner. I guess they didn't want to eat cold tins of soup (they don't have power). Afterwards, we saw one of the trees by the restaurant frozen the hell over. I didn't get that one, but I got quite a few more from around the block of flats.

Drain ditch

Flashy drain ditch

backlit satellite

slick pillar

icey closeup

And, what happens to HDTV during local weather clusterfucks:

that is not high definition