It was a ☆☆☆SNOW DAY☆☆☆ and you can just see the glee in some people’s eyes as they say it. I’m much more curmudgeonly about it because I live across from a sledding hill. The problem is SNOW DAYS change a lot of adults into idiot children with no thoughts of responsibility. 2AM and there are still people outside whooping it up and sledding.

Just coincidentally, snow days also seem to fall on garbage days and I’ve caught people stealing our garbage can lid for sledding (it doesn’t work for crap, by the way) and I even had to ask a guy to give us back our recycling crate because he wanted to use it for transporting snow. His answer was, “But dude, it’s a SNOW DAY.” Nice. Don’t be your kid, be the parent. I also have had to clean up all the cardboard people bring to slide on because they usually can’t be bothered to take it back home. That’s why I find snow days more work than they’re worth.

Today was kind of a special snow day in many respects. Usually it barely gets cold enough for the snow to stick but the local news channels start going nuts every time there’s the slightest chance it might snow, but nothing happens. This time I don’t have the luxury of watching TV and it’s actually in the 20’s and snowing. I was invited out to dinner with some friends and the old Todd would beg off because of football games on TV or something but this time I HAVE NO TV. Well, actually, I was able to watch a very jumpy version of Sunday night football over my intarweb but it really wasn’t worth it.

Look at me! I’m being social! And I was getting eyed by a redhead on the streetcar on the way out. She was too young for me and really looked like she wanted to carve me up like so much prosciutto, but I don’t have to mention that part, right?

Nothing good happens after 2AM, right? I just left a holiday party and everyone else is going out dancing. But they’re all in their 20’s and I’m not. I should probably get to sleep earlier than I did last night, but it’s already getting close to 1:15AM again. One of these days I should try to get a decent amount of sleep.

These holiday parties also mean lots of eating and drinking. I did a lot of work to get into better physical condition and I could blow it all this month. Sure I feel better and I look better but it’s not really getting me anywhere so why not offset it with some more holiday merriment?

I finally canceled my cable TV service. So much for my primary form of entertainment. I live in a neighborhood that is at the base of the hill where the TV antennas for the city are located, so we can’t get reception at the house unless we have cable. There’s a chance that we could get satellite TV, but we’re on the north side of the hill so we might be out of luck trying to get a satellite signal. In any case, I’ve been having trouble with the cable lately, mainly with ingress, where I see both the cable TV image and also the image from the local TV station. Basically, it looks like hell. I got tired of it and decided to try to live without TV altogether.

I’m surprised how little grief I got from Comcast for canceling my service. I keep hearing how they’ll give you great deals to keep you as a customer but I got bupkis. Which is fine by me, really, until the bowl games start. I may feel kind of odd tomorrow when the football games are going on and I can’t watch them. Oh, well.