recycle bins by the curb

 Beginning midweek last week, everyone was abuzz with upcoming snow. Well, it snowed and continues to snow. By the end of it all I think we should be around 6 inches, which can't compare to some of the huge storms from my childhood, but for Tabitha and Imogen, this is about as big as it gets. Snow days still get me excited but I no longer get to skip school, and my teleworking continues to telework even as offices are closed. There is just residual excitement from school and pre-telework days that remains. Josie got to experience it at her non-telework work Friday afternoon, where the mere threat of a dusting made her work close early, and apparently, her coworkers were singing and dancing. I took Frederick out for her walk this morning and the snow was light and powdery (people love to discuss the consistency of snow), and she seemed to enjoy it. After we got back she whined like only Freddie can, wanting to go back out. It's definitely fun to walk through clean, untouched sno...

 I'm gonna work backwards here a little to record some things that have happened recently: Mahana Fresh - this new fast cas place opened up a month or so ago and I wanted to check them out. The app was kind of lacking. They had a deal for wraps, $6.99 each if you get 2. I got 2 veggies but there was no customization. I am eating them now, live, as I type. Pretty mediocre. Just some veggies and sweet potato in a wrap...which I guess is what I should expect. It needed something else and I added sriracha and that helped. I also got Josie a bowl which she has not opened yet. When I went in to pick it up, the menu had more stuff than the app showed, including mac and cheese bowls and smoothies. I would probably give it a C grade, but will try it again and order in-store next time. Magic The Gathering - Steve and his friends had started playing this recently and I was like 46 years old is probably the right age to start a new complicated nerdy game hobby. I bought a Fallout-themed deck...

 No promises. I've been here numerous times. Not just with various blogs, but with random projects in general. And maybe it's that the new year is here, or that Josie just rediscovered her old blogs from her 20s, but I'm feeling foolishly optimistic that this is something that will fill a need I have to document stuff, to be able to look back on years later in horror and cringe.  My life is different in 2025 than it was in 2005, or whenever I started trashcans , and I always struggled to recapture the general vibe and tone that made it funny to me. My life, successes, and struggles, then were probably less deep and nuanced than they are now, and thus made for easy fodder and jokes. But also I'm immediately regretting writing that last sentence because that type of introspection is not at all what I want here. Just trying to set the stage a little for what I might want to include in my posts. It will honestly actually be pretty similar in that I will want to make inconsi...