Get out your snowshoes...we're going to the beach!

"You'll need your winter coat tomorrow; it's going to rain."

So claimed the weatherman on the evening news earlier this week. Having lived in the Midwest for over 22 years, this puzzled me. If it were cold enough for your winter coat, shouldn't the precipitation be snow (or at least a wintry mix)? Likewise, if it were going to rain, wouldn't you want your raincoat, not your winter coat? It wouldn't surprise me if this weatherman is the person who, by some similar misstatement in the past, started the trend of using umbrellas when it snows (for more about this trend, refer to list item #3 in my December 5 post).

I've decided that if there's one thing I'll never get used to in this area, it's the weathermen and their winter forecasts. For example, the weathermen who are predicting up to 4 inches of snow today despite that:

1) it was 45 degrees yesterday
2) it isn't supposed to go below 34 at any point today
3) the snow is supposed to switch over to rain at some point this afternoon

Right, that makes perfect sense guys...

Change...

"Another year has come and gone.
Nothing's changed."

In Andrew's blog-posting world, that certainly seems to be the case. Despite telling myself repeatedly that I would not let it happen, I have gone over a month without posting. Granted, it was not a several-year break like the one between the last post on my previous blog and the incarnation of this blog recently, but even a month was a longer hiatus than I had hoped. In reality, many things have changed. They are just unrelated to my blogging habits. Perhaps my next post will be a year-end review of sorts for 2007.

As of Christmas, I have moved up in the world of technology and am now the proud owner of an iPod nano. The main purpose for that acquisition was so that I would be able to hear something other than the clanging, clanking, clattering, and creaking of the Metrorail system during my commute each day. It was actually during my commute Friday morning while using the aforementioned iPod that I heard the Kutless song from which the above lyrics are taken and, therefore, why the lyrics happened to be in my head as I prepared this post. Now I just have to master the art of determining the appropriate iPod volume for the Metro, as there is a fine line between being loud enough to hear over the noise of the train and loud enough for others to hear as well. If there is one thing I do not want to be, it is that person, whose music you can hear from halfway across the car.

Also, on December 26, I had my wisdom teeth removed. Although it may seem like this was a poor choice of things to do while at home over the holidays, it did have its pluses, such as being able to take "sick days" off of work instead of vacation days. Apparently, however, the tooth fairy has changed her practices; I have yet to receive my 5 cents, 25 cents, dollar, or whatever the current going rate per tooth might be. Maybe that is because I did not put the teeth in the pocket of the little blue tooth fairy pillow I had as a kid. I wonder what happened to that pillow anyhow...