Weather

Sometimes a witty, or moving, post pops into my head as I drive to work. Not that it stops me from posting on the days it doesn’t happen. It didn’t happen today and here I am. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Sometimes one just has nothing to say. So it’s snowing. Here’s a webcam. It’s said to be located atop the Vienna Burgtheater, on the Ring. Right now, melting snow is running down the lens.

I’m a little gloomy because my wife is away on a business trip, too. I always get like this when she’s away. Don’t tell her or she’ll get cocky. Ditto one of my kids is away skiing. I do have the little one, still, and we’re getting in some quality time, learning about volcanoes.

I swept snow again. I made sure to wear sweatpants with livelier elastic this time. Ice on the roads made driving to work more interesting than yesterday.

I’m going to eat some of those round puffed-rice things for lunch, and cottage cheese, which is called “Cottage Cheese” in German (der Cottage Cheese), at least here in Austria. I’ve heard it called “H

7 responses to “Weather

  1. When my husband goes away, I always think it will be so much fun, but by the time bedtime comes around, I’m invariably lonely and stay that way until he gets back.

    At least you got Gamma.

    Interestingly, they call cottage cheese “keso” here in Sweden.

  2. mig

    I usually look forward to the freedom of solitude, but when I get it I rarely know what to do with myself and mope around. Unless I have something good to read.

  3. zuk

    write very long entries, or multiple posts each day–that way, all of us won’t have to mope around because we’ll have something good to read.

  4. j-a

    cottage cheese…hmm…i knew a girl who went on a cottage cheese diet. apparently it has virtually no fat in it.

    what’s your wife’s number? :-)

  5. What *are* those round puffed-rice things, anyway?

  6. mig

    http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/detail/554521.html

    That’s what they look like. Well, the package that is. Roughly – I’m eating a different brand here. Disks the diameter of a CD, about a centimeter thick.

    How does one puff rice?

  7. “How does one puff rice?”

    “You just put your lips together and blow.”