I actually got a good night’s sleep last night, as opposed to the night before when my foot hurt so bad all night long, all I could do was lay there with my earbuds in listening to old time radio and trying not squirm around too much and keep my wife awake. I attribute last night to the fact that I spent most of the day (and the evening) soaking my foot in ice water. In fact, I have it in ice water right now. If it doesn’t actually help, it at least numbs the shit out of it – and that’s good enough at this point.

So, as you may have seen on the news (or experienced for yourself) the cold weather finally arrived on the East Coast. I think the high yesterday was 8° here. It wasn’t so much the cold, though, as it was the wind. It was a constant 40 mph or something. Fortunately for us, is was blowing directly from west to east, which means we got almost no snow. For the folks to the east of Lake Ontario, though, they got like three feet of snow in addition to the cold and wind. Sucks to be them.

It’s still in the single digits here this morning, but it’s supposed to get all the way up to 18, so that will feel nice and warm. Not that I’ll see any of it, since today is my late day and by the time I get home it’ll be darker than a, well, something dark (I’d say a well-digger’s ass, but that would be crude plus I think the expression is actually “colder than a well-digger’s ass,” which it will also be by the time I get home).

Today is Governor Snotball’s State of the State address (or whatever he calls it). My wife is actually attending (there’s some bus going or something), and she’s going to attend next week’s lobbying day in Albany, where our State representatives (or, more likely, their bored staff members) pretend to listen to and give a shit about what We the People have to say (unless accompanied by a wheelbarrow full of cash, I somehow doubt they’ll be doing a lot of listening, let alone caring). But I’m just a cynical old bastid, so good for her and everybody else that’s going.

I guess I’d better pull my foot out of this ice water and get ready for work. Stay warm out there.