First off, a few links re:impeachment....If you see her, say hello, Ceej's Black Book and Nobody Knows Anything. These people are saying what I'm thinking and saying it a helluva lot better than I could.

One of them has even gotten hate mail about it. Gee, it's been a long time since I've gotten any hate mail.

Crummy night's sleep; I forgot to take my melatonin before going to bed, and then I got up early to take Karen to work. We got more snow last night, and, according to KANU, we'll be getting another coupla inches.

I love snow when all I have to do is look at it. Driving in it sucks, though. Not that I have problems... everyone else does. I know, that sounds really egotistical, but that's the way I am, and you already knew that.

I have, for about the last 20 years, owned a small foreign pickup, with some bad years thrown in there when I didn't... but the point is, the little pickups have always run throughout the winters with no problems. Always start, never get stuck, even though they've always been rear-wheel drive only... mostly because I'm pretty cautious about the situations I get into with them. Well, OK, there have been some exceptions, like getting stuck in the mud a week or so ago. That wasn't my fault... it wasn't mud when I parked, and the ground wasn't packed properly and when it rained it washed the dirt out.

But so damned many people drive so ridiculously when it snows or ices up. They either freeze themselves and go 5 MPH or they totally disregard the fact that conditions are different and good sense has to be dusted off and used.

I am always so amused (as long as I am not the target...) at the people with the monstrous 4WD vehicles... sure, they can get moving better that everyone else... but they are still faced with the physics of changing their inertia after they're moving... like turning a corner or stopping. They have no advantage in these situations, unless they're smarter than they appear to be. And they generally prove that they're not.

The weekend auto death total, all blamed on the weather: 4 in Kansas, 6 in Missouri. Most of them, from what I've read, in avoidable situations.

O'well, none of them were kids , anyway.

We've got a cat problem. Well, OK, it's the same problem that we've had for a while. The situation: Trouble (AKA: The Monster) beats up on the gray cat that has been hanging around since last spring. Not just beats up on... tries to kill, literally. So... it is winter, now, for real. Karen doesn't want the gray cat to have to be outside, so she lets him in. He eats, drinks, gets beat up on and hides until Trouble finds him again. Trouble get confined, either outside or in a bedroom. He escapes, gets to the gray cat again. Repeat ad infinitum.

Tyler is enamored of Trouble, and when he moves into his apartment with Chris (a nebulous thing, indeed...) he will take Trouble with him.

Right now, Trouble is in the basement.

Cowboy, my favorite cat, is aloof from all of this. He gets along well with the gray cat, and he hates Trouble too; Trouble beats up on Cowboy, only not quite so successfully. Cowboy defends himself very well except for the times when he is ambushed... which is pretty often. Trouble is a good stalker.

Trouble lives up well to either of his names.

Tyler is leaving today for Texas for xmas; he and JD and Marta will be flying to Jackson Hole, WY for some skiing and general winter recreation. I hope that they have fun... several years ago, JD got in a fight with Marta and came home a week early.

After the vacation, Tyler is going to stop by and see mom in Enid, maybe help her out with WIN95.

And JD will be moving back up here shortly after that, I believe.

Nasty weather, especially for driving. Tyler will use the turnpike and I-35, roads that they keep up pretty well. He was up most of the night again, so he'll be rested when he starts off this evening.

I just finished putting an "interior storm window" on the front windows. I should've put the new windows in when it was nice, in spite of Karen's protests that she didn't want the whole house torn up. The plastic sheeting will help some, but it won't make up for the lack of wall insulation.

It's kinda cool, putting the hair dryer on the plastic and watching it clarify and tighten. Boy, the ways that I have to resort to to find some amusement in my life....

I'm thinking about dropping out of several web-rings. Actually, I would drop out of all but three, but since I run the smoke-ring journals and the atheist journals rings, I suppose that I should continue those.

No, I'm not mad at anybody, nor do I have any disagreements with anyone in the other rings... I just want to cut back, to simplify things a little more.

And speaking of rings, the not-quite-a-ring that I belong to, PicsWorth, will remain. Actually, I haven't done much pimping of PicsWorth at all, not even having a link on any of my pages, I just realized. That will be remedied with the update... coming soon!

A little more on the multiple births in Texas...
This is part of an email exchange on the Atheist_only maillist...

I do expect to get into some trouble for this one...

09:58...
OK, I decided to go ahead and resign from the three journal rings, so they're gone now. I got all of the stuff done for that, now I need to write them letting them know that I'm not mad at 'em.

And I think that I'll call this a day... well, in that I probably won't write any more about today. In fact, it's pretty likely that I'll go back to bed...