Ever get the cowboys riding your tail when you’re driving on ice and they think you should go faster?  Especially on on- and off-ramps.  That’s when I want one of those electronic signs in my rear window that says Hey dipshit, this is ice.  I’m not going faster.  Pass me when you can.

That makes sense... I notice it on tv when they have shows set on the east coast and someone talks about “the” 684. It’s Hollywood writers who don’t know any better. (I notice it on various flavors of Law & Order - where you’d think they’d know better.  Don’t they shoot in NY?)

Call it the icebelt territory.

Basically, yes. It was in the 70s on Sunday when I was walking my dog in the afternoon. Then it started raining, so roads couldn’t be treated. No one expected the snow to stick since it had been so warm the week before. Also, in the DC area, “snow” often falls first as ice. You get a layer of ice before you get the…

Oh, it does.

Dog/cat/whatever food if you travel with furry friends and they can’t share what you eat.

They don’t realize that there’s probably ice under that snow. And that no one can stop on ice. I grew up in New England too, and I used to laugh at them until I hit black ice one time, and I was driving a VW Rabbit that would go up any sort of hill in any kind of snow up there... and I spun out down a hill into an…

Exactly. This isn’t like Florida, where it gets down to possible snow temps once in a blue moon in winter, or like Rhode Island, where it’s around 20 degrees and the precipitation falls as snow all the time. This is the DC area, where winter temps hover around 32. So the wetness might fall as snow or ice or rain or…

Random note:  my elderly white mother was a big fan of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after sitting next to him on a plane (she’d been bumped up to first class). She introduced herself and said sorry, she didn’t know who he was, but clearly almost everyone else on the plane did. He said who he was and of course she’d heard of…

That’s giving him credit for a lot more intelligence than he’s due.  It’s a typo.  Or what would be called a typo if he was smart enough, but we can just call an error.

I’m looking at you, “Everything Is Illuminated.”

One would hope, but one wouldn’t always be correct.  People where I worked one time needed specific instructions on not throwing food into the recycling bin.  We had to put up signs that said “if you can’t wash your food container clean, you can’t recycle it.”  People were eating half their lunch and throwing the…

Ugh, you’re right.  Lost my mind there for a minute.

Oh please. She wants to eject members who illegally helped to incite an illegal and violent insurrection on the Capitol and thwart the furtherance of the legal and orderly transfer of power from one elected president to another elected president. GOH with that cutesy shit.

Yes, it feels like Jared Leto has been afflicting us for a lot longer than that.

Pence DID do the right thing in the end, but he spent a lot of time looking for ways to do what Mango Mussolini wanted him to do first. Dan Quayle (also from Indiana) finally told him that no, he had to do it by the Constitution. That said, I’d be pretty frosty if my boss sent a squad with a pre-fab gallows down to…

Hey, thanks! And I’m glad it gave you a little bit of relief from your physical misery. I’m so glad you got the All Clear, and I hope you’re feeling a lot better now. You cheered me up as well; Christmas is one of my least favorite times of the year.

In no particular order, I’d say these are not to be missed. They’re mostly PBS, Britbox, and Acorn:

I’m glad you got a chuckle out of it. I was annoyed with my father at the time, but I could probably build a standup routine about it now. Every element going into this was absurd. My father who grew up in the city and so felt it had nothing he couldn’t handle... but who was now 80 with balance problems. My stepmother…

I’m so glad you emerged safely from the experience! I hope it was the type of fence that didn’t tear at your flesh and/or your clothing as you were pushed through.  It sounds like it would have been scary.