[LMB] Battening down the hatches, and happy dancing

[Laura Gallagher]

Well, my friends, for those of us in the middle of the US, this is a
weekend to batten down the hatches and stay home.  We had plans to be
visiting friends tomorrow, but it's been cancelled.  We're where
moisture coming up from the gulf is meeting an arctic front coming
down, and it looks like it'll be bad.  The forecast got a lot worse in
the last hour or two, and it dropped 20+ degrees, that it wasn't
supposed to do until late tonight.  We're under a flash flood warning
now, changing to ice storm later tonight.

I woke poor Karl from his nap and sent him out to do grocery runs NOW,
while it's still possible to drive.  They say travelling will be
hazardous to impossible, power outages very likely.  Ice of a quarter
to a half inch on roads - I expect the northerners will scoff, but
nobody down here is prepared to deal with that.  We can just spend the
rest of the weekend here at home.

Oh darn - I just checked it again - it had dropped from 66 to 45, then
42, now it's 36.  I hope he drives carefully.

However - we will NOT be bored.  For, joyous and rejoicing, glee and
happy dancing, Karl checked the mail before he left, and there was a
priority mail package from California, with a Bujold ARC.  YAY!  I
opened the package, thinking to sneak in some reading before he got
back.  At which point he will have dibs, only fair since it is his
birthday present.

But the seller *gift-wrapped* it.  I don't have the heart to take it
off, when it's so appropriate that his present be gift-wrapped.  So my
scruples are costing me my early read.  Well, I still will be reading
it way earlier than June.

Laura Gallagher