A happy, healthy, and prosperous new year to one and all!

And thanks to all who've been so supportive and such good friends this year. God bless and keep you all.

We got snow.

About two inches. There was so little I didn't bother to shovel the driveway this morning, thinking (stupidly) that I could do it tonight with no difficulty.

I got home to find that the utter morons dedicated snow plow guys from the Easthampton DPW had once again plowed all the snow on the street onto the odd side. This meant that the Lawn Nazi across the street had about three inches to snow blow, while Roomie, God bless her, and everyone else on this side had about three feet of snow to shovel, snow blow, etc. It took hours, and evidently I beat the plows by about fifteen minutes when I left for work this morning.

Nice going, guys. The Mayor is getting a letter about this, and so is the Daily Hampshire Gazette. No excuse whatsoever.