Now I Smell the Rain, and With it Pain at 7:27 AM

It's snowing/sleeting/raining like a mother here. The crappy part about that is I had to drive to work at 6:00 this morning with my windows down because my ice scraper is toast from the last ice storm and my car was covered in ice. So I hacked away at my windshield with my dilapidated ice scraper for about 10 minutes to little avail, but at least at the end I could kind of see. Of course, if I were an intelligent man, I would have bought another scraper before now. Unfortunately, I am an idiot. By the way, if you're looking for a quick way to wake up, go for a drive with your windows down in 2 degree weather when it's sleeting. Works every time. I don't know what the deal is lately, but I'm coming up with a real shortage of things to post about. It's not like there's nothing going on. I became a father 3 weeks ago, and that's all going pretty well (pictures to come later--today if I remember when I get home), and we're putting an offer on a house today, but what more is there to say? I've been thinking about writing movie reviews in this space, but after reading Joel's review of The Bourne Supremacy, I feel like my review would look like a 12-year-old wrote it. More to come in the next few months about movie reviews in general, though.

I've started a movie journal this year. The idea is that I write down all the movies I watch this year and rate them, and at the end of the year I can have more useless information for my own personal edification. Actually the main point is to come up with a year-end list of best and worst movies that I saw (not necessarily movies that came out this year--just ones that I saw). I got the idea from Eric Snider's site. He made a complete media journal, but I know there's no way I'd keep up with that. Also, he's a media critic, so I guess that helps him remember better than I would. This is a great site, by the way--especially for those who know him from his "Snide Remarks" days at BYU and later for a local newspaper in Provo. If you don't want to pay for the $3/month "Snide Remarks" subscription (well worth it, by the way), at least check out the movie reviews and blog entries. Good stuff.

Also, here's a quick note (I guess I get to thinking about things to post once I get going). A drawback to working with 40 women (no exaggeration) is this: yesterday we had a plumbing problem in the employee bathrooms, so we called in the plumber and he ended up removing "a large amount of tampons" from the pipes. (Quote from the invoice) Can I just say right now that I'm glad I'm not a plumber?

Song of the Day (in case you can't guess from the title): Led Zepplin - "Ramble On"