Scenes from a Winter Day,....

Well, the TrekMedic picked a fine couple of days for vacation, didn't he?

Yesterday's "Snow Event" (as Carlin once said, "I hope they didn't sell out the tickets!") yielded some quirky observations from TrekMedic Terrace:

• Local neighborhood kid trudging home with his school backpack over his shoulders. Hey kid, pay attention to something other than MTV for a few minutes and you would have seen "All Philadelphia Public and Parochial Schools are CLOSED."
• Next-door neighbor #1 - poorly-laid down salt trail up the steps, but not a shoveller to be found. 3 adolescent kids in that house and no school? WTF?
• Neighbor #2 - two houses down from me - shoveled his side of the steps and the common and the pavement but neglected his next-door neighbor, an elderly woman and personal family friend. Nice going, asshole!
• Non-stop coverage of the 2.2" (officially at the airport, but no one lives there, so who cares) that fell on Philly, plus the 8-10' in the "Northern and Western suburbs." Y'know,..if you carried out a terrorist attack during a snowstorm, no one would notice!

SO,..after a half-bottle of Aleve and some down time and intimacy with a heating pad,...I say "When's the next storm of the millenia??"