The Husband desperately wants these for the cat. And the dog. Because a boxer walking in boots is hilarious.
Snow in New Orleans as well. I'll need to brush up on Revelation, but I'm pretty sure that's one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
I would rank Reign Of Blood third right behind Master of Puppets and Vulgar Display Of Power as the best metal album of all time. Slayers insane speed, heresy and heaviness almost throws you when you realize what hilarious, likeable guys they really are. A band that truly loves their fans like very few.
We put socks on the dog once for shits n giggle and even though my dog has the saddest face you've ever seen, he became visibly more depressed until they fell off.
I challenge anyone who's ever seen my dog to find a picture of him right side up NOT making the "OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END TAKE COVER" face. He seriously has the saddest most depressed face ever. If I put socks on him I don't know how that would even go. But I'll get video.
It's a known law of the universe that almost as soon as you pull out a camera, dogs will either run away or assume the position to communicate that they're about to be beaten.
Same thing in NC... I hope like hell that there will be enough on the roads to justify me staying in bed and working from home on Wednesday.
I remember we put a jingle bells collar on the cat one Christmas. As soon as it chimed, the cat ran from the sound. The problem is the harder/faster she ran, the more the bells jingled and since its attached to she couldn't shake the sound. And if you understand how fast a housecat can run-- Faster than the fastest man alive-- she was tearing through the house like the Scooby Doo gang, zipping in and out of random rooms. The way these animals leap and take corners at high speeds is stunning. I laughed myself sick. Catching a scared cat is next to impossible, and then you have to take the noisy collar off the scared cat while it has its patented kitty defended system ready. It was not painless.
He has the Sarah McLachlan dog face down pat. Especially if he's in his kennel. If you saw him in it, you'd think I used him for a punching bag all day. pathetic.
They are even saying we might get some snow and ice. We had a good bit of ice this past Friday where I saw about 10 car wrecks over a 3 mile stretch of highway. Houston drivers are already pretty terrible. Throw in the rare ice event an you have yourself a game of bumper cars at 60 mph. As of now, they have delayed the opening of our clinic until 10 am, but I suspect they will cancel the whole thing because the weather is supposed to get worse as the day progresses. Pushing the start till 10 only makes it worse, not better. But I work for the state, so I imagine good decision making isn't a strong suit.
My job hasn't said anything yet. Smart money would be to just call tomorrow a half day and go from the weather then. There will be bad wrecks if folks are made to drive. I consider myself a person with enough common sense to figure out how to drive in it, but I've only had 5 chances to do it in my life. Imagine the stupid folk.
In the course of vacuuming the stairs - I discovered they threw carpet down on top of hardwood. That shit is coming up right now. Maybe not NOW now...but tonight. Because FUCK carpet. That shit a germ catching nasty.
All the weather talk sounds like business as usual for us here, we got a few inches of powder Saturday night and tonight will be really cold, like Canada cold. I spent a couple hours with the snowblower around my block yesterday, helping neighbors who were outside too. People smile really big when they are shoveling away and you show up at the end of their driveway with the snowblower running, only one lady refused help. If those machines had cupholders for coffee with Irish cream I could do that for a living.
If you want to see panic and mayhem, threaten the south with ice/snow. Fucking widespread panic. Liquor stores have lines out the door...people start forgetting how to drive the minute the forecast is released. It's bizarre.
Funny enough, Colorado drivers suck in the snow too. Even with all the Land Rovers and Subaru's they still freeze up. If the roads are fine, but there is snow on the grass they'll slow down to 30 in a 55. For someone who drives assertively like myself its frustrating as hell. Btw, I-70 going between Summit County and Denver has some of the worst traffic in the world. On a normal ski day, a drive which should take about an hour will easily take 2 or more. This happens constantly.
Yeah, I guess you just need to grow up with it for it to seem normal. My body has developed a natural antifreeze or something like that. I was flipping through radio stations this morning and some mouthbreather was ranting about the weather, how he "just can't imagine it!." Well shithead, it's January and you live in Minnesota. I tried grilling some fresh brats last night when it was zero degrees with a nice 30 mph wind and it didn't work very well. Still had to try it. The gusty winds last night had fun playing with that fresh powder snow we got and blew some impressive drifts. A buddy sent me this photo today: Spoiler You are looking at the side of a barn. Yes, he could walk right onto the roof.
I live near Baltimore/DC. These people are fucking idiots year round. Slinky traffic all the way. It's exhausting and frustrating.
I have been to several different countries and traveled through almost every state in the US and hands down drivers around the DC/VA area are the worst I've ever seen. 495 is a goddamn death trap. I was riding my motorcycle on the beltway and the Red Cross blood mobile was next to me. The driver made eye contact with me and at the same time jerked the wheel into my lane causing me to split traffic and nearly die. Fuck those drivers right in their stupid fucking faces.
Twice last week I saw cars stuck on the steep mound of snow between the city street and sidewalk (it is 3-4 feet tall now). One sedan, and one SUV. Not just stuck, but completely on top of them with nowhere to go and on streets with 30 mph speed limits. Both incidents completely baffled me, I mean were they trying to ramp them a la Nitro Circus? People here get plenty of practice so we generally have our shit together driving on snow but obviously a couple don't. Most of the time when I see a car in the ditch along the highway, you can see from their tire marks they were going too fast, overcorrected or hit ice, and lost control. The worst stretch of highway I've seen for this is I-35 from Minneapolis to Des Moines.