Snow day

Last night it took me about two and a quarter hours to get home from work:

This dude was having a real hard time riding his bike in the 40 mph winds and blowing snow. Still, it took me so long to get my camera phone to take a picture that he was almost past the car I was in by the time the shutter snapped.

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This White Castle sign said something really funny about a sack or something. But it got blown out, so we'll never know exactly what the puerile joke was.

Today I am pretty hungover, tired, sore, and somewhat inspired. I just shoveled a metric shit-ton of snow around our building, and I think I left my lower back somewhere outside in the snow, because right now there is only pain where it used to be. But it was a great community experience. Dozens of people were out helping each other shovel snow in the alley and on the street. A guy with a snowblower came through and removed a ton of the shit from behind my building. It was an inspiring neighborly experience. Not often do people around here get together and help each other out like this. A guy who said he'd lived on this block for ten years suggested that he'd never seen anything like this, the cooperation. It was an impressive effort, and I'm grateful, since it was a lot of damn snow.

Speaking of good neighbors, there's these dipshits on my street who own this busted-up early 90s Honda Civic that looks as though it was culled together at Pull-a-Part. These assholes, for some stupid fucked-up reason, think they have something worth stealing. So they have the most sensitive car alarm in the world. The thing goes off every time a car with a busted muffler drives by or whenever a pigeon shits on the hood. Usually it's going off all night long. Today my wife and I watched them try to drive this three-and-a-half foot tall car through two feet of snow. And let me tell you, it was funny as hell. They had to get five of their buddies out in the street to push it because it kept getting stuck. Justice for those tools.

But now it's nearly 7 pm and I still haven't gotten the writing done that I meant to do today. Same story as usual, I suppose. I have plenty of time left to work tonight on it anyway.