The geese were really on the move yesterday, with squadron after squadron of Canadian geese flying overhead. Yesterday it was mostly snow geese (the kind that are all white except for black wing tips – as opposed to the snow geese that are “blue” with white heads), though there were plenty of “regular” ones flying about too. I took this to be a sure sign that spring has finally sprung.

And then I woke up to fresh snow on the ground this morning. Not a lot – maybe an inch or snow of actual accumulation, but it’s somewhat disheartening anyway. It may actually be snowing right now, even. It’s too dark to tell if it’s snow mist or fog.

They claim it’ll hit 60 on Tuesday, but I’ll believe it when I see it. These things tend to get revised down as time goes on.

I don’t usually bother with the Sunday Boobleheads anymore, but I happened to notice that the Press the Meat roundtable will include Svante Myrick, who was the youngest person ever to be elected Mayor of Ithaca, NY in 2011 at the age of 24. Ithaca, if you don’t know, is not only a gorgeous area (seriously, there are lots of gorges), but it’s a liberal bastion and home to Cornell, Ithaca College, Tompkins County Community College, and the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, which is the North American seat of the Dalai Lama (I don’t really know what that means, but it sounds good).

Myrick was first elected to public office at the tender age of 20, when he was elected Alderperson (no, not Alderman – this is Ithaca we’re talking about here).

So it’ll be interesting to see what he has to say and if they actually let him talk. Not interesting enough for me to watch, though.

Ah, it’s brightening up out there and, yes, it looks like it’s very foggy out there. I can’t see the corn field next door (it’s been soybeans for the past couple of years, so I’m anticipating corn this year), so it looks pretty thick. Hopefully it’ll all burn off before I have to do my weekly shopping over in Pixley. I blew it off last week, and I need food for the week (and gas, too).

I’m looking less forward to work this week than I normally am. Not only do I have the “support” duty this week (our users appear to have suffered a collective 30-point drop in IQ over the past six months or so – and they were barely above double-digits to start with), but it’s also stupid monthly meeting week on Wednesday, and it’s been cancelled so many times that if we actually have one this week, it’s gonna be even more uncomfortable than usual.

Plus there’s this whole not being able to walk thing. Kinda sucks.