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Snow is snowlicious.

The frickin' library is actually open today - but I am not there, too-ra-loo, too-ra-lay.  No risking my precious hindquarters for a non-essential service, so say I.  It is still a bit of a drag to have to burn through more vacation time - seriously, why should it cost me 8 hours vacation when the library is only open for a service day of 6 - and today, possibly even 4 - hours? - but better that I guess then trying to drive my BB pellet of a car over roads that are opaquely frosted white.  With 'tards whizzing by as though the laws of physics do not apply to them.  Fie on that.

Holed up with company, yaaaay.  Went out for breakfast this morning at 7am and nearly got stuck in the parking lot - which, if you're going to get stuck, at least IHOP has food and when that runs out, plenty of fat bastards to slow-cook when things go cannibal.  One of Paco's rear tires decided to freeze and lock up, which was interesting - never seen that happen before.  It got unstuck, which is yay.  And the car got puched out of the parking place by 5 selfless volunteers.  Just when I think that humanity should be wiped clean, people go and do nice shit.  Damn them.

Okay, so maybe I'm regretting giving up as many vacation days as I did this week - I could have made it in yesterday but opted not to.  Probably not the wisest choice; hope I don't end up regretting that more later in the year.  But being at home with the bed, books and kittehs sure seemed preferable at the time.  Aaah, instant gratification - you are a heartless bitch.

Hum.  The sun is starting to come out.  Wonder if I should go outside and try to build something with the snow before it starts to get melty and icy.  Pondering in 3...2...1...

Everyone must try this. YOU MUST TRY IT

Welp.

Earlier it was simply too cold to do anything sculptural with the snow.  Dry and cold = powder.  Perfect for skiing, fucking useless for snowpersons or any other kind of construction.

However, we did invent a new snow activity:

SNOW BALL

Take a baseball bat.  Players (pitcher and batter) are placed within equal distance of a tree.  Pitcher forms and pitches snowball.  If batter is able to hit the snowball, s/he must run for the tree, and the pitcher must both form a new snowball and tag the runner before reaching the tree.  Soft and sloppy tagging balls are acceptable, pure powder is not.  Strike, ball and foul rules apply.

We tied.

:D