Yesterday we had the Great Blizzard of 04 or as I call it "Tom Tuttle". We got some snow and by tomorrow it will all be melted. Whenever it snows here there is a doomsday mentality among the co-workers. Everybody leaves early, because of the roads. Then everyone talks about not coming in the next day, because of the roads. I now leave my car in front of my house, because of the driveway. I seem to remember as a kid living in Alaska there would be snow from October to May. I remember when we first came to Texas and we realized everyone here was scared of snow we laughed and laughed, but we didn't say anything because school was easily cancelled. I do remember last year we did have bad roads and my car was snowed in at my house. I just couldn't get out of my garage. There was a 3 inch sheet of ice on my driveway and had my car slid it would've slid into a neighbor's house. So how does an adult spend a snowday? By throwing buckets of hot water on his driveway and ice-picking it apart just so he can get to work the next day. It was a comic episode; one of my neighbors was watching me from their bedroom as I was doing it. Every 5 minutes I would come out with another bucket of hot water and throw it on the ice. Then I took a shovel and banged on the ice to get it to crack. Then I even put some lighter fluid on the ice and lit it. That was pretty, but not as effective as I liked. Finally after about 5 hours I made some headway. I was able to cut a tire path all the way to the street. The key was to keep the tires on the path. At the end of the night I was able to get my car out of the garage and park it in front of my house... another victory for the common worker.

Thought of the Day

"Jerry, look how tense you are. You need to take a soak."

"I'm not taking a soak in that human bacteria vat you got goin' there."

"Come on, I'm telling you, it's great. I opened up all the windows. The air is cold, the tub is boiling hot. It's like Sweden, man. Sweden!"

- Kramer and Jerry, in "The Hot Tub"