Crap. Winter decided to come back this morning. It’s not a ton of snow, but it’s cold (17 at my house when I got up) and windy. This is when winter becomes a pain in the ass: you get a taste of warm weather and you start thinking about all the things you should be doing outside, and then, bam! It gets cold again. At least at this time of year you know it won’t last long.

With my mind definitely turning to thoughts of warmer weather, I got bearings and a seal to rebuild my pool pump, which was getting awfully loud by the end of the season last year. I’d hoped to get a new solar cover since the one I have is getting kind of ratty, but we’ll have to see about that. Money is getting ever scarcer, and I need to blow a bunch of it to contain the varmints in the back yard, now that they snow the old wooden snow fence is more or less useless.

You may have heard there’s a bit of a standoff in nearby Herkimer, NY (it’s about an hour or so east of Syracuse). Some bozo has shot 6 people so far, and four of them are dead. Now he’s holed up in an abandoned building. The paper reports that this has brought “downtown” Herkimer to a standstill, which, if you’ve ever been to Herkimer (which you probably haven’t) is kinda funny, ‘cuz I’m kinda wondering how you could tell the difference.

They have pictures of people that look like military, but I assume are some kinda cops, hanging out with serious looking weapons. The odd thing it, they’re wearing camouflage uniforms. I mean, Herkimer is small, but there are building and shit. I don’t think the camo is fooling anybody.

Governor Snotball was on the scene for who knows what purpose, other than to get his face on the teevee. I’m glad he got an opportunity to knock the Pope out of the news for a few minutes.

Oh well, back to work.