Ah, another weekend shot to hell.

Sports-wise, it was a good weekend (for me, anyway), as the SU basketball team took advantage of a relatively easy Big East opening schedule to go 4-0 in the league (16-1 overall), most recently pummeling Rutgers on Saturday night. No doubt they’ll move up a bit from their #9/#11 national ranking. With games against nine top-25 teams (including #1 Pitt) in their next 10 games, that isn’t likely to last long.

Then the Philadelphia Eagles earned a trip to the NFC Championship game by beating the Giants 23-11. Geographically speaking, I’m supposed to be a Giants fan, but as long as Donovan McNabb is the Eagles QB (and the Jets continue to be, well, the Jets), the Eagles are my team. And I actually got to sit down and watch the whole game for a change, which was nice.

I realize you non-sports people think all this is stupid, but, hey, it gets a bit dark, cold, and snowy in these parts during the winter, and it sure makes trudging out to work at zero dark-thirty on a cold Monday morning a little bit easier when “your team” is on a roll (for one thing, you can kill lots of time on the ESPN website and sports blogs – at least if you spend your workday in front of a computer the way I do).

Speaking of winter, we seem to be getting a hell of a lot of snow here this year (even by our standards). As of midnight last night, almost 94 inches had fallen this season, which is about double our average. At this rate (which I doubt will continue, but one can always hope), we’ll wind up with over 200 inches for the year, which would be both a record, and pretty nifty (I rather enjoy the snow, personally; as long as you’re going to get it, you might as well embrace it. Plus, it’s really pretty and the dogs love it). And it’s supposed to get downright frigid by midweek here – looks like we’ll be struggling to get above zero by Thursday.

I watched a little bit of Jurassic Park yesterday morning before I went out and shoveled the driveway (rather shocked to find another 8 – 10” had fallen overnight). It’s not a bad movie, I guess (the book was better), but I realized that the reason things turned to shit was that the computer dude was using a Mac. No wonder it all fell apart. I mean, when your dinosaur containment system starts acting up, you don’t wanna rely on somebody who needs to set up an appointment with a “genius” at the Apple store, do you?

Speaking of Jurassic Park, Laura Dern was just so goddamn great playing Katherine Harris in “Recount.” Her old man is great in “Big Love,” too (though my favorite Bruce Dern movie will always be Silent Running).

Oh well, guess I’d better go and get ready for work.