Radar Love

A low pressure system from Oklahoma is making its way across Illinois this evening. The current forecast is for 3-5 inches of snow, which will make it the first substantial snowfall of the season.


Also, this is too funny: The city of Bryan, TX, decided to spice up their yearly water quality report by making it into a calendar with pictures of their water service employees. Check out some of the images here. My favorite is the guy sitting on the toilet.

I am the Connect Four King!

Yesterday I was at the grocery store and happened to notice a display of games next to the checkout lane. Among them was Connect Four. I hadn't played it in many, many years, but I remember having much fun with it as a kid, so I bought it.

Wendy and I opened it up this evening and it didn't take long before the fun started. For her, at least. Five moves into the first game, she beat me. We were both rather surprised, not to mention very amused. One game was all it took for me to get my bearings, though. I beat her four moves into the second game! I then went on to dominate the remainder of our games. So far I am quite pleased with the purchase. :-)

In other news, Wendy threw her back out after we returned from St. Louis. We suspect it had to do with the transition from sleeping on a waterbed at the Calderwoods' to sleeping on our regular bed here. She's much better now, but for a couple of days she couldn't move or breathe or lay down or do pretty much anything without considerable pain. A steady diet of Advil helped immensely.

Our stay in St. Louis was very enjoyable. Grandma Gilda did, in fact, make a huge Thanksgiving feast. There was a lot of good food, and there were many games of Trivial Pursuit, along with lots of football. (I learned all about the Illinois high school football playoffs from Grandpa Jack.) It was fun to see everyone that Wendy grew up with. On our way out of St. Louis we even stopped to see the house and drive around the neighborhood that she grew up in.