OOOOHOOHOHOOO!!!!!!!!!
BEDEVERE: Oooohoohohooo!
LAUNCELOT: No, no. ‘Aaaauugggh’, at the back of the throat. Aaauugh.
BEDEVERE: N– no. No, no, no, no. ‘Oooooooh’, in surprise and alarm.
LANCELOT: Oh, you mean sort of a ‘aaaah’!
BEDEVERE: Yes, but I– aaaaaah!
AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!
Panic, hyperventilate, panic, Panic, PANIC!
Did I mention AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!?
Did I mention less than 24 hours?
AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!
When you leave your car at the side of the road in Wisconsin, the state patrol will often place a bright orange sticker warning you that your vehicle needs to be moved or will be towed.
Today I saw a car on its roof in the ditch with one of those stickers placed on the front tire.
In other snow-related news, our new neighbors started up their snowthrower at the wonderful time of 5:30am. I was tempted to go out there and ask them if the time zone was different on their side of the street, but they actually live north of us. I decided to let it slide this time.
I think our 4 year-old has a TV addiction.
Generally, we try not to watch too much tv, and we really try not to watch TV before leaving for the day. But this morning, he asked if he could watch the Weather Channel. Now, he can’t read quite yet, and doesn’t really know geography either, so I’m not sure why he needed the forecast and current conditions.
Anything for a fix, man… anything for a fix.
I want to work for Wal-Mart.
Actually, I just want to know how Wal-Mart’s POS system can set off an FBI alert. The man “purchased nine Valentine teddy bears, 20 inches tall, and 14 canisters of propane, 9 inches tall, small enough to fit inside the teddy bears. The man also bought 12 packets of BBs”.
Must be some fuzzy logic Wal-Mart and the FBI have got running there.
I’m getting really sick of people who couldn’t program their way out of a subroutine if they were given an return 0; or Exit Function to do it.
Yesterday I drove all the way to our son’s school with a custard donut on the roof of the Jeep. I almost drove all the way to DePere with it there were it not for the frantic honking and waving by another parent behind me. I rescued the donut.
This morning, I saw her husband and he asked me how my donut was. “Cold”, I replied. My wife was astonished that I even ate the donut after having it sliding around up there. I don’t know what the big deal was, it was on a napkin.
In a follow up to Friday’s events, at least two other vehicles went off the road in the same spot as I did.
Every morning, when we pray with our son, we ask the Lord to put his angels around us to protect us and keep us safe.
Today, my angels earned overtime.
As I was already late for work this morning, I was driving faster than conditions should have allowed. I was passing a silver Pontiac(?) in the left lane, when I hit a patch of ice. At first I swerved left a bit, but thought I had it recovered. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I hit another patch of ice and started swerving right. As I saw the front quarter panel of the silver car looming closer, I thought of the impending pileup with the additional cars behind us.
However, at that very moment it was if I were pushed back to the left, away from the other vehicle. My left tire caught a bit of a snow drift and I left the comfort of the road for a snow-spray-filled tour of the median on Highway 41. Everyone else continued on without me, and without further incident.
I have four wheel drive, so luckily I was able to pull myself out of the ditch and continue on to work (at a reasonable speed this time). To me, the most interesting part was I only got as close to a crash as an angel is wide.