My Life, Revolving Around Snow

I blog post this knowing I may have given a diametrically different opinion before.  Also, even though I haven't measured it yet, it seems as though the snowstorm that has come through today isn't as bad as it was feared to be earlier a week ago.  It was, at its worst, forecast to be between six inches and a foot, and it was going all day and stopping some time between this evening and well into the night.

With that being said, this storm, as pedestrian as it probably will turn out to be, is the biggest storm of this winter.  Overall, that's really good, because I hate shoveling snow, hate plowing snow, hate driving through it, hate it when it's not Christmas.  But it's not as if I could go to, say, Hooters, like I wanted to do today before I heard about the storm.  Also, my boss texted me this morning asking if I could come in for overtime.  I would if there wasn't snow, but because there was, I at the very least could only get there once I clear my driveway.  He said things are OK at work, so I will not rush to shovel and/or plow enough snow so I can use my car.

This illustrates how, when there is a storm, I have to throw everything else aside in order to deal with the snow.  Well, I am blog posting this, so it's not as if I'm getting to the snow now.  But after these men's college basketball Games (as well as this intriguing men's lacrosse Game, where a Rutgers team coughed up a big lead to, of all schools, Stony Brook), I will go out to my front driveway, assess the damage, and determine if there's enough snow to justify firing up the snowblower for the first time this season (and, in fact, since the 2022-3 winter).  And then I will need to take a nap.  Then, the sun probably will be setting, and I will be too tired to do anything except, possibly, clearing the back deck.

See, my day is revolving around clearing snow.  I think on the whole this is better than fleeing a hurricane or picking up the pieces from an earthquake.  But right now, today, I don't feel this way.