Watching from a distance as my intended destination for a Christmas get-away appears to be experiencing every possible ill effect from snow and wind and wave.

One under-appreciated or less-mentioned phenomenon of bitterly cold weather is that the world sounds different, not just the wind. Though the wind itself is hinting it its own power.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media Having been through some lift-and-shifts, I feel this to my core. I agree with so many of the points, but most particularly that the community and the love can’t be bought.

Watching Lego Masters, eating Halloween candy while keeping an eye on a snowstorm that is evolving, possibly into a blizzard.

My immediate behavior in the face of obligation-free paid time off is to sleep until I can’t sleep any more. If/when this is interrupted, I go back to bed as soon as possible for as long as possible.

Book-ended my day with urgent calls, almost exactly 12 hours apart.

“Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!” —George Jetson

I could easily have changed an elevated-access password Friday, when I received a three-day warning. I but chose to wait until today, when I needed it to perform a specific thing, to do the account recovery process instead.

#ADHD #makesCompleteSense

When the Jeopardy clues elicit responses such as “Bootylicious” and “Shuttlecock.” I heartily approve.

That feeling when you find someone interesting to follow online, and then within 24 hours they indicate they will be taking a break.

I’m probably using social media wrong, but I deeply enjoy following people who challenge me and teach me.