The ScooterBlog

Later tonight, I’ll be posting about how nice my dad’s new 43″ small profile projection TV looks …. if it looks and sounds half as good as it did when it was at Best Buy, I plan on starting to save some change, and quick!

Don’t get me wrong. I am a fan of the snow. In fact, there are few things I like better then going outside to see everything blanketed with about 3-4 inches of the white stuff (and then the trucks with a clean road to boot!)

But as you get older and have to deal with the realities of life, there are minor changes that you want to this theory of perfectness. I offer up these changes to my old worldview:

• If it is going to snow, that’s all I want, snow. No ice, no sleet, and good lord no freezing rain! At least some rational people can drive in the snow, but no one can drive on an ice rink (or sometimes, even unlock their car)
• To follow up point #1, snowing when it’s all instantly turning into mush sucks too (like today). Cause then, yeah, the snow is nice, but you might as well be getting a cold rain, which that night will freeze over INTO an ice rink!
• It’s not a true snow storm, be it a half inch or a half foot, unless FOX 19 Weather calls for at least twice as much snow as we would ever get, and props it as the next “white death” … sorry, some traditions are not worth breaking!
• And finally and above all …. unless it’s a damn good storm or there is something extreme happening, my old high school, Covington Latin, cannot close. Sure, close all the public schools, even the government if you will, but only true “Acts Of God” can stop Covington Latin school, and it better be a good one!

So hopefully, the next snow storm will be better then today’s “barely sticking” blizzard of mushy 35-degree crap-ness.