Fa-La-La-La

I finally broke and I’m listening to Christmas music this afternoon on WOXY. Where else can you hear “Elizabeth & The Catapult – Christmas With The Jews”? I’m sure there’s not a radio station in my area that’s playing that little ditty.

I’ve been amusing myself today by attempting to build a Hollywood Squares game in PowerPoint. I don’t know that we need it, but it keeps me out of trouble and if it turns out I know someone will eventually use it in a class.

We’re due for some more rain tonight and I just can’t tell you how thrilled I am to hear that news. It wouldn’t be so bad if we just got some sprinkles, but the forecast is for a 1/2 – 1 inch of rain. We’ve had too many days of inches of rain and so we don’t really need this set of showers tonight.

There is a bright spot in the evening in spite of the rain. I’ll be going to The Niece’s holiday play. The better-half is working so he’ll have to miss it. He didn’t get home until after 10pm last night and it will probably be like that this evening too. He’s really been hustling lately with work, but when you are a one-man band you play a lot of instruments. I think that metaphor could have come out a little better, but I was going to say something about when it rains, it pours but that would have reminded me about the weather.

Which would lead me to the insanity that is Virginia weather–we’re already worried about what might happen in the Roanoke Valley Thursday night/Friday morning. One of my courses is piloting there on Friday and I’d be sick if we have to cancel because of the weather. Cancellation of the pilot would mean it won’t happen until January which means the course won’t be published until late Jan/early Feb and that’s way off schedule. I’m going to be optimistic because typically the weather folks can’t predict what’s going to happen this afternoon much less what might happen in a few days.

Update:
The holiday play was very cute and the kids did a good job. The second best part of the day was having ice cream at McDonald’s afterward. Now the nieces know about fries in a chocolate shake. Not as super-awesome as a Frosty, but I have to ease them into magnificent snacking.