So, if you’ve been paying attention to the weather news, you’ll have probably heard there’s a big old nasty winter storm sweeping across the US of A. It’s supposed to hit my neck of the woods later this evening, though it’s actually snowing out there already. They seem to have us penciled in for about 14″, though it could always be more. Or less. Usually more at my house, since I’m on the western side of a gorge and the wind tends to come sweeping down the plain, as they say, and dumping everything on my house. A foot to a foot-and-a-half is what we consider to be a pain in the ass around here, rather than some sort of Snowmageddon. Especially when it happens over a weekend (really sucks when we get dumped on in the early morning on a weekday, just because you have to get out there and fuck around in the snow to get to work). About all I do it make sure I have enough diesel to plow the driveway, enough gasoline to run the generator, and enough kerosene to run the heaters if all else fails. I should probably go run the gennie for a while just to make sure it still works.

The real hassle is the cold. It was in the twenties when I got up at my usual stupid time of the morning, but it’s down to about 12° right now, and it’s expected to be below zero and not much above for a few days. And really windy. Plus the wife is working this weekend, which means I’ll have to get out on the tractor tomorrow morning to plow. Not that I won’t be up anyway, of course, but getting out there in the dark kinda sucks, and my fingers and toes really have a hard time with the cold these days. I’m good for about half an hour, but then things start to hurt. And when there’s a lot of snow, even a quick and dirty plow job can take well over an hour.

It would be different if the rest of my life was all fun and games, but, well, let’s just say, it aint.

I’m also getting really tired of reading “Trump is toast now” or whatever. Or how Mueller has this awesome plan and Trump is playing checkers while Mueller’s playing three-dimensional chess and is 10 moves ahead and all that. Yeah, but Trump is still there, isn’t he? And Yurtle McConnell has has back and that, pretty much, is that.

Until I see them back the paddy wagon up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and frog march that whole band of thieves out the door, I don’t wanna hear what Buzzfeed or Atrios, or anybody else has to say. How about we just focus on getting these Republicans (and the Republicans masquerading as Democrats) out of control? Not that I’m going to personally do much of anything, of course. I’ll vote – and I may even re-register as a Democrat to vote in the Primary, though that’s always already decided before NY gets to vote – and I’ll maybe even donate money, but that’s pretty much it.

And how’s about we just try to decide which candidate actually stands for and will try to accomplish the things that are important to us, and not play the “who’s electable” game, or the “I don’t like this one because they were mean to that one” or any of that other nonsense?

Frankly, whoever legalizes pot and lowers the retirement age to 55 (or even 58) gets my vote.