So predictable … I get a three-day weekend—hey, this happens just four times a year!—and Mother Nature is determined to keep me housebound, tossing freezing rain, sleet, and [maybe later today] snow in my town. It’s not that I don’t know how to drive on this stuff—I do, mainly in knowing that you don’t —but I really don’t think my fellow Alabamians have the first clue about it. Given that my truck is valued for less than a Mac laptop these days, I fully recognize that any incident I had with one of my peers would send me pounding the pavement at new car lots … which is not a fun prospect at the moment for me.

So, I’ll stay piled up at home, working through stuff here. [Although I really wish now that I'd bought that filing cabinet yesterday as I came home. I planned on doing that first thing this morning, but ... oh well.]

Update @ 1942: Power just blipped across the street; most of the houses over there are without power. I still have it, for some reason. Also, local TV reports that most every overpass is closed, that the roads up on Monte Sano are shutting down, and US 72 over Chapman Mountain may be going down, too. Should be a fun night …