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Sunday, 10:30 AM

My satellite TV went down yesterday afternoon. I expected this, and I was actually surprised it lasted as long as it did. I fully expected the snow to knock it out Friday evening, so for it to last as long as Saturday afternoon was a pleasant bonus. Not sure when it will come back, but I’m patient because I know it’s buried. I’ll have to watch the Superbowl ads on the internet, I guess.

However, my internet is down now too, as of this morning. (When this is posted, obviously it will have returned.) I feel so isolated! I need to know what’s going on outside my doors and I have no way to find out! Argh! I know I lived my earlier life without constant input from the outer world, and I managed just fine. Now, however, I feel alone, alarmed, distraught. Clearly I need to get a grip.

11:30 AM

No church today, of course. Driving is still out of the question, and though I’m not certain (what with the lack of internet and all), I highly doubt any buses are running. Kind of weird to have church canceled two weeks in a row. That’s never happened to me before.

I’ve poked my head outside. One of my neighbors managed to uncover her car, though it’s still completely surrounded by snow. Another neighbor got about as far uncovering his car as I did last night. All the other cars on my street are untouched, just big white lumps. I heard my landlord head out. He parks his car around the corner, so I’m guessing he’s gone out to start unburying it. (They have a garage for their other car, but I doubt the alley they’d have to drive through to get out is even remotely accessible.) There’s a pick-up by the corner that is snow-free, but its emergency flashers are on and it looks like it skidded into a snowbank.

It is above freezing based on the bit of melting going on. I’d guess it’s around 33 to 35 degrees. I’d kill for 40 degrees, or even a couple degrees higher, to encourage melting, but yesterday’s forecast called for highs in the low to mid 30s for the next 10 days, so melting will be slow. Good for minimizing flooding, bad when you want your car back.

I know. I’m have too much of a car mentality. This forced carlessness is good for me. I’m in a city well-served by public transportation. I can live just fine without a car. I need to get over my car-dependency.

It is quite the sight outside, though. Sunny and bright and so white.

12:00 PM

The satellite TV has returned. How unexpected! Maybe my landlord uncovered it. I wouldn’t have noticed except that the orange “recording” light was on the DVR (it was time for “Music and the Spoken Word”), and it shouldn’t have been if the satellite was still out. I turned it on to see what was up and saw pictures. And sound. Even the HD channels come in. Yes, the landlord had to have uncovered it.

12:45 PM

With a desperate need to Do Something about all the snow, I went back out to get the rest of the snow off my car. I got most of it off the top. Of course, it’s buried on all four sides, but the sun should melt the remnants on the top. So that’s Something. A pointless, futile something since that baby’s going nowhere, but something nonetheless. And hey, a bit of exercise too.

1:39 PM

Internet!!!!!!!!!