Yeah, get around, get around, I get around....
Pretty day today, although many streets are still completely iced over. Took the garbage down to the dump, went to the bank in H'burg, had lunch with my ham radio buddies, got a new 6volt gel-cell battery for the halogen spotlight, dropped a prescription off at the pharmacy, refilled the gas can for the snowblower, picked up some more lithium batteries for the weather station equipment, filled up the green Camry, went by the post office...
I took the halogen spotlight apart to replace the battery -- a bazillion pieces fall apart as soon as the six screws are removed. It took an hour to get all the pieces back on place and sealed back up after installing the new battery.
I fixed mom's wooden TV-dinner table with some wood glue and a couple of screws, although it was such lightweight wood, I had to get the drill out since I didn't want to take a chance on splitting the wood further.
I finished cleaning up the bedroom, finally got the last of the Christmas decorations put back out in the garage, brought in a network hub for Dubby so she can share a single Ethernet line for both her new computer and her printer (although the printer is a sore spot right now), and worked on the ham room in the basement a bit, although it is still only about 5% cleaned out.
They are predicting another 6-12 inches of snow tomorrow night. I hope the roofs can take it... the snow is piling up and I know that weight is tremendous.
I saw in the news where they just found Ernie Shackleton's cache of whiskey that he left behind during his aborted 1909 effort to reach the South Pole. Trivia question: Who was actually the first to reach the south pole? It was in 1911, by the way. No fair looking it up on Google or Wikipedia or anything else, either!
Hint: He (below) was a Norwegian. (The head of the competing American team, Admiral Robt. Scott, reached the pole a few weeks later, but died along with his entire party, on the way back.)
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In Alaska, on houses that don't have steep/slick enough roofs for the snow to slide off, people will often climb on their roofs with a shovel or a broom to knock the snow off every so often.
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