The Big DumpTruck

It’s a winter wonderland outside this morning. I’m willing to bet my cheese money that this is a classic “man, we blew it” storm. They were saying 2-6 inches yesterday, and even as late as 6 this morning. Well, I have news for them, there is 6 inches out there right now and it’s not supposed to stop until after dinner. And it’s that HEAVY stuff. School was cancelled and I was annoyed, because 2-6, what’s that over the course of 12 hours? Well, obviously it’s waaaay worse than that out there.

Mr. Dump’s commute was hellish. It took him an hour to get from Leominster to 495 on Route 2, and then another hour to get to the Chelmsford rest area, where he stopped to clean the windshield and unblock the washer spout thingies. While there he noticed the CBS4 truck doing a live traffic/weather report, and then reporter turned around and pointed at him and then waved, so he waved back while the camera was pointed at him with the light on. So Mr. Dump got to be on television this morning! Hey, it at least made the commute a teeny bit more interesting.

Christine, his commute was about as long as yours, but it was a much further drive, on highways. Ick ick ick, I guess I’m kind of glad I’m stuck at home with the boy, even if it means taking a hit in the paycheck. I don’t need a three hour commute each way.

Theo’s back on the payroll, and they didn’t shout it from the mountaintops! When I went to bed last night only redsoxsoul.com and bostondirtdogs were talking about it. Why? Because they didn’t make the announcement through the media, they just put notice up on redsox.com, and figured people could find out at their leisure. When Remdawg didn’t even have mention on his site, you know that’s a stealth announcement.

I have to say, this is very unlike the front office, the people who held a press conference after someone LEFT the team. This is the biggest news on Yawky way in weeks, maybe months, and they post it after hours and only on their own website.

I’m dying to hear what the unwashed masses are saying – I assume by the time I get to work work will be getting around.

I bought a pack of gum at lunch and was just looking at the label. It’s Trident Crystal Frost Freshmint Flavor, for those of you who want to follow along at home.

The gum is made with Xylitol, which is a great name for a villian in a sci-fi movie. I assume this is the sweetener used to make the gum “sugar free” but I haven’t looked it up. Right under that, it says “Not a low calorie food.”

I never thought of gum as a food because I don’t swallow it. Not on purpose, anyway. So without that disclaimer, would people go on a “Trident diet?” I was thinking that maybe there is something about it that makes it a high calorie food without the sweetener, but it says it’s got less than 5 calories “per serving.” I fear looking on the web to see if there are people with eating disorders out there going on a sugarfree gum diet, so I’m not going to look. Given the choice, I’d rather go on the pickle diet that I previously mentioned (0 calories eachie!) because I think pickles are more filling than gum.

But that’s just me.

I bought a pack of gum at lunch and was just looking at the label. It’s Trident Crystal Frost Freshmint Flavor, for those of you who want to follow along at home.

The gum is made with Xylitol, which is a great name for a villian in a sci-fi movie. I assume this is the sweetener used to make the gum “sugar free” but I haven’t looked it up. Right under that, it says “Not a low calorie food.”

I never thought of gum as a food because I don’t swallow it. Not on purpose, anyway. So without that disclaimer, would people go on a “Trident diet?” I was thinking that maybe there is something about it that makes it a high calorie food without the sweetener, but it says it’s got less than 5 calories “per serving.” I fear looking on the web to see if there are people with eating disorders out there going on a sugarfree gum diet, so I’m not going to look. Given the choice, I’d rather go on the pickle diet that I previously mentioned (0 calories eachie!) because I think pickles are more filling than gum.

But that’s just me.

Holy cow, scary wind! Scary destructive wind! I hope the lack of leaves makes it harder for the wind to blow over a tree in my yard, but I guess I’ll find out when I get home.

We lost power here at work for about 30-40 minutes, so that was exciting. I assume it was wind-related but I suppose someone could have run into a pole. They haven’t actually told us why it was out.

But other than that, it’s 50+ degrees outside and that’s just how I like my January. Junior’s ski lesson last Saturday was postponed because of the weather (i.e. rain and 50 degrees equal slushy foggy conditions that aren’t particularly safe when you have 7 year olds careening down a mountain. Those trees are just hiding in the fog waiting for one of the little buggers to wander by.) Looking ahead, I see we’re due for 50 degrees all week. I’m going to stick my neck out and say that it doesn’t sound good for skiing this coming weekend, but I could be wrong. If today’s rain doesn’t melt everything, that is. It doesn’t look like it’s going below freezing at night, so they won’t be able to make snow either. Tough winter to own a ski resort.

Let’s see, what else do you need to be told? Hmmm. Nope, I’ve got nuthin.

Oh wait, yes I do. New Red Sox blog over in the blogroll. www.redsoxsoul.com Cause you know you can’t wait for spring training.