All-Wheel Drive
Dec. 19th, 2008 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayIn an uncharacteristic display of foresight, planning, and execution, I got out early this morning and did the banking and grocery shopping for the weekend. At about 10:30 this morning, I was on my way out of BJ's Wholesale with most of what we needed, enroute to Wegman's for a few odds and ends. As I approached the front of the store to leave, I could see that the season's first "big one" had started.
Little Jay had been dragging his feet about getting dressed for school because his daddy had told him that today might be a snow day and I had rested my case on, "Your daddy's been saying that since he was five, it's not that cold out, and there isn't any new snow." But, just to be reasonable, I turned on the city's cable news and weather channel and there it was. An entire alphabet's worth of cancellations all the way from Lake Ontario to well past our southern border with Pennsylvania.
Anyway, that's what got me out of the house early. Big Jay is dropping his mom off at work four hours early, which means she'll be working another overnight double at the hospital. Which may be for the best since getting up the hill toward SU might be a problem later on and we need the money, appropriately enough, for repairs on the car with all-wheel drive.
By the way, I've known for some time that God came up with all-wheel drive because He'd lived in Central New York for a while after the Creation. He did it to be sure that it was even possible to live here and eventually decided that we needed something to give us an edge. Of course it was horses and oxen at first but, you know, same idea.
Which, considering the cost of gas, might be cheaper. But they do leave a mess in the driveway...
Little Jay had been dragging his feet about getting dressed for school because his daddy had told him that today might be a snow day and I had rested my case on, "Your daddy's been saying that since he was five, it's not that cold out, and there isn't any new snow." But, just to be reasonable, I turned on the city's cable news and weather channel and there it was. An entire alphabet's worth of cancellations all the way from Lake Ontario to well past our southern border with Pennsylvania.
Anyway, that's what got me out of the house early. Big Jay is dropping his mom off at work four hours early, which means she'll be working another overnight double at the hospital. Which may be for the best since getting up the hill toward SU might be a problem later on and we need the money, appropriately enough, for repairs on the car with all-wheel drive.
By the way, I've known for some time that God came up with all-wheel drive because He'd lived in Central New York for a while after the Creation. He did it to be sure that it was even possible to live here and eventually decided that we needed something to give us an edge. Of course it was horses and oxen at first but, you know, same idea.
Which, considering the cost of gas, might be cheaper. But they do leave a mess in the driveway...
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Date: 2008-12-20 10:23 am (UTC)oh the horrors.
check out the journal of colvincd ~ he's got a great entry about lightining and snow.
first i was stuck out of town, now i'm stuck IN town. at least here there are no screaming children...
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Date: 2008-12-21 01:21 am (UTC)as for the winter lightning, i have seen it a couple of times, here in the northeast, and it is oddly disconcerting, to say the least.
glad you're gonna be closer to work for the duration...
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Date: 2008-12-20 10:53 pm (UTC)But then - one cannot ride inside an ox ....
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Date: 2008-12-21 01:24 am (UTC)