I looked out the window at about 4:00 this morning, and my first thought was “must be a full moon” ‘cuz the grass looked all white. Then I thought “funny, we should only be a little past a quarter moon, and it should have set at like one or two o’clock this morning.” My final thought (at that moment – hopefully for the rest of the day) was, “oh, shit. That’s snow.” Yep. A nice little blanket of snow on everything. It wasn’t unexpected, but you still kind of hate to see it start, ‘cuz it’s a long, dark stretch ’til spring. On the bright side, now that we’ve had enough snow to track small animals, we can have Indian Summer (and it does appear that it’s gonna be sunny and about 50 this weekend – maybe not summer, but we’ll take it).<\/p>\n
Somebody called “Macklemore” was in town for a concert last night. He’s apparently famous – the latest generation of “white rapper.” The review says he appeared with “his” DJ (this is what concerts have come to, I guess – why pay a bunch of musicians when you can twerk around to a record?). It also said he had to play the same song twice – once as his closer – because he apparently doesn’t have enough songs to fill a whole show. Or something. Used to be you could go to a Dead show four nights in a row and not hear the same song twice.<\/p>\n
Kids these days.<\/p>\n
In other news, it appears that “Wall Street” is all agog at the thought of Elizabeth Warren running for President<\/a>. This is all because of a story at The New Republic<\/a> that quotes an “unnamed former staffer” as saying:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah, Hillary is running. And she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably win,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says the former aide. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But Elizabeth doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about winning. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care whose turn it is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, clearly, Warren is running, despite the fact that she says she isn’t running, she endorses Hillary, and that Hillary should run.<\/p>\n A shame she isn’t, since I’d be much happier voting for her than I would for Hillary. But, jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! Can we start worrying about 2016 when it gets a little closer to 2016? Like maybe after the Super Bowl in 2015? <\/p>\n BTW, I’ve been trying to talk myself into switching from Dish to DirecTV. Anybody out there have a setup with the “Genie” whole home DVR (five tuners – no more recording conflicts, ‘cuz I can’t see there ever being more than three decent things on at the same time, let alone five)? If so, let me know (either here or privately, if you’re bashful). There’s the older HR34 that I’ve read there have been some problems with, and then the HR44. DTV tells me that they are officially shipping the HR34 to new customers, so that’s holding me back That and the whole overcoming inertia to switch. And having to clean the house before I can let the installer dude or dudette in.<\/p>\n