Oscar Follow-up: How'd I Do?
I also worked up enough ANGRY BEEF sightings to get me through until next Wednesday, so that's good. I kinda been slacking on that.
When I drove Carrie to work in the morning, the car's external thermometer said it was 46 degrees F (about 7 degrees C) outside. When I went to pick her up for lunch it was 42 degrees F (5.5 degrees C). It was actually getting colder as the day was wearing on. Also, it was raining. Also, there was some snow mixed in with the rain.
Carrie drove herself back to work after lunch on account of I didn't need the car. After she came home she asked me if I wanted to go shopping with her.
"Sure," I said. "What are we shopping for?"
"I'm not sure," she said.
We were shopping blind!
In truth we were shopping for gifts for (1) a baby shower and (2) a wedding shower, both of which are happening this Sunday. Carrie wasn't exactly sure what she wanted to get for either event, so we went to the mall and walked the entire distance of it. I saw some extraordinarily fabulous dinnerware at Macy's. We need more dinnerware like a hole in the head.
We did the whole mall and I got some mint iced tea at the li'l Nordstrom's cafe place therein, while Carrie got an iced mocha.
We stopped by Target on the way back. The wind was really whipping, and the flags in the parking lot were going crazy-go-nuts.
That evening Carrie watched The Apprentice while I was on the 'puter. Then I watched Mythbuster while she went on the 'puter. It worked out well.
She had trouble sleeping at night due to the mocha. I fell asleep WAY before she did.
When we woke up this morning there was a (very) light dusting of snow on the ground, and the white stuff was falling from the sky. It wasn't very remarkable in any respect except for the fact that the individual snowflakes were enormous. Some of them were getting over an inch in diameter.
None of the news reports said that it was going to last long, so I snapped this photo for proof of the event:
As you can see, it wasn't even sticking to the road, and indeed as I'm writing this it is about 95% gone.
