Valentine's Day 2006

Still have the same hateful, loathing of this particular "holiday". I really detest the idea that in some way my affections for anyone have to be tested and rated like this. It's always a sore point, so I'll just add this card:





There; I love you and this proves it.

Can we now get back to our regular lives?

Moving right along, we had a major snowstorm over the weekend. Sometime late Saturday night and all day Sunday it snowed like it hadn't all season. Sort of a reminder that it's not yet Spring you dolts. They claim it was a blizzard, but while it was quite the downfall, I feel let down to find the requirements for a blizzard are simply reduced visiblity and 35 MPH winds sustain for 3 hours.

It seems that a blizzards should be An Event.

Which is why they get mileage out of the Blizzard of '78 every year. Now that was a storm. Unpredicted, massive snowfall. School was cancelled for a week. Cars stuck on the highway. And a state of emergency that meant no cars were on the roads for days.

Today, you get a blizzard and you still have to go to work the next day.

Whoa! Somebody sounds bitter!

I always took Valentine's as one of those reminder holidays, like Thanksgiving or Snake-Whacking Day. Like if you're already being romantic then keep going, but just in case you've been forgotting lately, here's a specific day to remind you to take a little time and value whatever it is you've got ("I love you internet! Thank you for your copious porn!"), even if it's just that illicit business you have with Shaun and his awful dice rolls.

Over here we've mostly turned Valentine's into a day of pulling pranks on each other. Everyone has their own idea of what counts as romance.

By  rayhawk, at Wed Feb 15, 06:03:00 AM 2006  

Heh - I *do* remember the blizzard of '78 :) Though, they said that the big storm we had last year was on the same level.

This past weekend's annoyance is not a blizzard, I don't care what they say. If I can get back on the bike the next day, then it's a failed blizzard.

By  Cranky Dan, at Wed Feb 15, 09:51:00 AM 2006  

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