Vacation Day / Happy Birthday

Today is the last day of spring break, so I took the day off work. Last night we drove three hours to Charleston, WV, and we're staying with my mother-in-law. This would be an excellent place for a mother-in-law joke, but I can't do it. She's wonderful, and I can't think of any witty barbs. Also, she reads this blog sometimes. I love you Linda! Happy birthday!

Later today we're going to take the kids bowling. I don't expect any of us to play as good as we do on the Wii. I've made four strikes in a row Wii bowling, and when I don't get a strike I usually clear the frame in a spare. I don't think I've ever made one strike in an actual bowling alley. Although, to be fair, I think I've bowled in a real bowling alley about 4 times in my entire life. And that includes a fairly intoxicating venture to Dave & Busters in Nashville last year in a work-sponsored event.

in real life, if I could switch my bowling score with my golf score I'd be a pro at each, because I bowl a 63 and I golf a 300.

PS Blogger spell check doesn't know that Wii is a word. It doesn't have a problem with Atari though. Get out of the 80's and catch up to modern times, Google. I expected more from a high tech giant like you.

I come from the land of ice and snow...

The winter storm that swept up from the southern plains hit us last night. The snow turned to rain late in the evening, and it rained all night. Of course, this is central Ohio, and we can't have normal rain. We get freezing rain. When I woke up this morning, it looked as if there was white fluffy snow everywhere, but it was all frozen solid.

We're under a level 2 snow emergency. Max's school is closed. Vic's daycare is closed. The cardiologist Angie works for closed his office today. I work from home, so I don't get a snow day.

Dammit.

I get to spend all day putting together a contract for a prospective client. I'm not a lawyer, but I've done enough contract work as part of sales and business development that I feel I should charge people $500 an hour for a 5-minute conversation, and then go play golf. I bet I could actually drive the ball 300 yards today, because it would bounce and roll on the ice.