Well, I survived the Christmas party, and other than having it duly noted many, many times, that I was not eating the pizza and wings and having to declare a like number of times that, no, I didn’t even want to have “just one,” I had a very nice time. Of course, I was looking at the near white-out conditions outside the whole time I was there, and wondering how quickly I could extricate myself and get home. Turned out, it took me until almost quarter to four (and then when scraping my car, I knocked the wiper blade off). But I made it home before traffic got too bad, and with a little bit of what I will call “daylight” (though there wasn’t much light – except for the snow) left. <\/p>\n
Right now, it seems the snow gods have given us a reprieve at my house, as the lake effect bands have shifted north and east. Hopefully I won’t have the foot (or more) of snow I had yesterday morning (way more than I estimated). Since I know you care, I’ll report that, officially, after 10 inches of snow yesterday by about 10PM, and with what we’ve gotten overnight, this is the second snowiest December in Syracuse history with about 67″ and counting. Another three and a half (give or take) and we’ll set a new record. <\/p>\n
With half a month to go, I think we’ve got that one in the bag (the real question is, will we break it by the end of the day today; oh, I think so). They also say it’s a new “pre-winter” snowfall record. So, naturally, the Good Morning America weather dude will be broadcasting live from here this morning because, um, well, I dunno why exactly. For the same reason they send these idiots out in the hurricane so you can watch them get rained on and blown around, I guess. <\/p>\n
But where’s Al Roker? He should be here. After all, he went to school at Oswego and was the lo-cal weather dude here for quite a while. He was “Big Al” Roker back then.<\/p>\n
So the House passed a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (again), and now the Senate needs to pass it (and the new SALT, and a bunch of other things), except there’s no time because Harry Reid hates both Jesus and Christmas<\/a>. Or something. He wants the Senate to go back to work after Christmas, but Jon Kyl and Jim Demint say that’s an attack on Christmas and Christians<\/a>, and that Xmas is the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. <\/p>\n Apparently, they’ve never heard of Easter, and, by the way, I<\/em><\/strong> have to go to work the week after Christmas (in fact, I get screwed this year, ‘cuz Christmas – and New Year’s; funny how that works – is on a Saturday, so I’m off anyway – though I do earn a day to use later). So unless you’re proposing that nobody should have to work (which would be bad for the economy, as we all know), then shut up and do the people’s business. Hypocrite bastards.<\/p>\n Anyhow, as for DADT, it’s apparently one vote away from passage in the Senate, as Olympia Snowe (who is the Paris Hilton of the Senate – willing to do anything to get some attention, but, fercrissakes, please<\/em><\/strong> no three-way sex tapes with Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins) says she’ll vote for it. We’ll see. <\/p>\n Oh well, I reckon it’s getting to be about time to bundle up and see just how much snow we got last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I survived the Christmas party, and other than having it duly noted many, many times, that I was not eating the pizza and wings and having to declare a like number of times that, no, I didn’t even want to have “just one,” I had a very nice time. Of course, I was looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}