So I’ve been quiet lately mostly because Civ IV has eaten my life. I won a diplomatic victory last night! (I was going to be about 5 turns short of a space victory too!) As usual I’m behind the times and only started playing Civ IV recently. I didn’t like Civ III at all so it took me quite a while to become interested in trying a new Civ again. (Civ II is still my favorite!)

It snowed the end of last week. Well, it kinda snowed. First it rained, then it iced up and turned to sleet and freezing rain, then it might have snowed a while, then it went back to freezing rain. The accumulation was dense, icy and a pain to shovel again. Think “packed powder” from snow making at ski resorts. Little tiny ice cubes! The temperature started to rise yesterday and likely today will be my last day with significant white on the ground. Of course, the folks at the church across the street are still trying to clear out one of the doorways to the rectory and finish their sidewalks.

Since snow is melting again, there’s water in the basement. Yippee!

I need to cancel my gym membership. I’ve gone out walking more times in the past 2 weeks than I’ve successfully made it to this gym in a month. So, out with the gym, in with the walkies. Of course, walking means I get to observe additional idiocy. Two public service announcements to the folks in my neighborhood:

  1. Putting ice-melt pellets down on 3 inches of packed freezing rain and snow does not constitute clearing the sidewalk. And this is not the kind of snow that is going to be “worn away” by hundreds of high school students walking to school.
  2. Just because it’s snowy and icy does not mean that you do not need to clean up after your dog.

So shape up before I get my clue-bat out.
My open tabs are getting kind of unruly, so here they are:

Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)

Perhaps I should have warned you how geeky the song was?

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