Well, it’s looking quite Christmasy out my window this morning. The trees are full of snow, the driveway is full of snow – everything looks bright and shiny. Well, not super bright, ‘cuz the sun’s not out, but it looks like the snow is mostly over (and I can see a brightening sky off to the west – not sun, mind you, but brighter clouds). And it’s already a lot warmer this morning than it ever got yesterday, so that’s good.

It’s hard to tell how much we got without actually going out there and walking around in it. Maybe 8 inches. Maybe 10. Less than a foot, anyway, which is my official standard for determining whether it’s just a little snow, or it’s a pain in the ass. So, just a little snow, and I’ll have to get out there and plow the driveway at some point (in the afternoon, after I make sure it’s not gonna snow more – though that’s hard to tell around here. All the wind has to do is switch direction and it can pile up in a hurry).

I’ve been trying a new keyboard app for my tablet – SwiftKey. It’s supposed to be very good at learning what you type and then predicting it for you, plus it has a lot of very nice little features. Unfortunately, I don’t really type all that much on my tablet, so it’s probably not going to be very well-trained by the time my 30-day trial is up. But since it’s only $3.99, I guess it won’t break the bank to buy it. It’s a shame that SwiftKey appears to be Android-only, ‘cuz if there’s a keyboard that needs replacing, it’s the one in my work iPhone. Its version of auto-correct truly blows. I don’t know how the kids bang out text messages and tweets (let alone e-mails, but maybe kids don’t use e-mail except to contact their parents) on these things. I’d say in the future, humans will evolve to have really pointy fingertips, except I’m sure they’ll perfect voice recognition (another area where Android blows iOS away) or a brain interface before that happens.

Turns out Megyn Kelly was “just kidding” when she said Santa Claus is clearly a white dude. I’m not sure I get what the joke was (really didn’t sound like her little panel of Foxists were joking around), but she did seem to admit that the part where Jesus was a white guy is still open to debate. It’s kind of shameful to admit that she not only went to SU but was actually born here (though she moved away when she was 9 – they must have messed her up in Delmar).

Out old pal Frothy Rick Santorum says that government-provided healthcare is just a way to kill off the people who don’t vote the right way. I don’t actually think that’s true – but it’s not a bad idea. I’m not sure how you make sure the right people get denied care and die off, though. Maybe some kind of a questionnaire? Of course, assuming he was bitching about Obamacare, that really isn’t government-provided healthcare. It’s not even government-provided insurance. I’m not really sure what it is, to be honest, other than certain regulations about who can get denied insurance and the extent to which insurance companies can screw people and the requirement that everybody (well, sorta everybody) gets insurance and the feds give really poor people subsidies to get insurance. Oh, and there’s something in there about death panels and killing babies and stuff. But no actual health care that I can see.

Well, I suppose I ought to go out there and tromp around in the snow for a while. The dogs sure seem to be having fun.