Ups and Downs: Snow Day Recap

• Up: Celebrated Rebecca's day off with three soft-boiled eggs and toast.


• Down: Burned my hand while absentmindedly brushing cat hair off of the stove, oblivious to burner I had just removed a pot of boiling eggs from.


• Up: Got to use the giant bandaids that I never have any use for.


• Up: Got in a morning workout of shoveling 1 of 2 cars out, in 13.5 inches of snow.


• Up: Had Shells and Cheese for lunch while watching Betas.


• Down: Had to thaw my heat pump with a hair dryer get the high pressure switch to kick back on.


• Up: Won three games of Hearthstone with an unfamiliar class.


• Down: Lost eight other games of Hearthstone.


• Up: Shoveled more in the evening, and was surprised to see that our street (normally plowed once, three days after a storm) was plowed 4 times in 2 hours by 4 different trucks.


• Up: Managed to get partial reception on the Olympics over my HD antenna even with a foot of snow on the roof (my antenna is mounted in the attic).


• Down: Had to watch speed skating, and endure "Weak or No Signal" errors throughout the events (but surprisingly, never during a commercial).