The Occasional Solipsist

'I've made a huge mistake'

I thought I'd start my recently alluded to rant about the snow up here with a little Arrested Development reference. No points for you if you don't get it. But it is something that I have been saying ever since the gods damned snow started showing its face last week.

Aside from quoting from that greatest of comedy series, I have also been asking myself What the fuck I was thinking moving my family farther north in this
country without it occurring to me that I was moving back into 4 solid months of ridiculous snow?

I mean, it started snowing on Friday. It stopped snowing (very temporarily) today. It will almost definitely snow again tomorrow. There are three feet of snowbanks all the way along my road. I had to plow my driveway (which was also ill-advised because its a good 60 feet) with my car this morning. I got stuck about 20 times, had to try and shovel a hole in the foot or so of the white nonsense in the way, and I'm pretty sure I took the last 50,000 kms off of my engine while I was at it. It is now making a decidedly horrifying noise that I am pretty sure signifies that I'll be parting with a lot of money very shortly.

And yes, I suppose it is pretty from my bedroom window. But its nowhere near as pretty as a picture of it would look beside a window view of an ocean. Or maybe a volcano.

And I am a little worried that I am this unhappy now about this crap and I still have another 4 months of it to put up with. Its going to be a long winter.

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