Woke up this morning and looked in the mirror and for the first time – I had no idea who I was looking at. For the past two months I have been growing a moustache for portraying Teddy in “Arsenic & Old Lace.” I hate the thing, with a passion, but they didn’t want to use a fake one so I agreed. I have also gained all the weight back I had lost in September, which didn’t surprise me.

I have kidded myself that I was gaining weight “for the role” but deep down I know it wasn’t truly necessary. February is going to be the month for me I have decided – in January everybody is out with their “new years resolutions” to lose weight and get in shape – most of them have failed already.

So yeah, February is going to be my month. I re-started my Blockbuster Online subscription, so now I have a reason to walk to the post office downtown again, and since I get 3 at a time, if I take one back a day, it should keep me busy every day of the week, assuming I get the next one by the time I run out in 3 days.

There are exactly three weeks (21 days) left until I can shave the moustache off. So begins the countdown.

1) They call you continously if you are even 1 day late
2) They outsource their calls to India
3) They raise their rates every month until it is 30%
4) They “lose” your payment that pays off your account in full, just to charge you another month’s interest while you have to sort it out.
5) Their computers are cheap and un-upgradable
6) See #3 and #4

I came home from work yesterday and found a note taped to my back door. I guess they are showing the duplex to prospective buyers. Yay. I haven’t had to clean the entire apartment since November – so I have a big weekend ahead of me. But, I did get the kitchen done tonight – woo hoo!

Yes, its snowing.

Grrrr.

We haven’t had snow since before Christmas, in the sky anyway, and all of the old remnants had been swept away (to phrase Governor Tarkin.) Now – it’s baaaaaaaaaaaack.

Which brings me to the stupid people segment of today’s entry. This will probably make the podcast as well…

Normally when you hear people talk about “snow” and “stupid people” it’s in reference to their driving skills or lack of. However, this blog entry is about – snowblowers. On the way home from work tonight the neighborhood was dutifuly outside shoveling their sidewalks (does this thing really work, looks like too much work to me) and of course gassing up and using their snowblower, which they probably paid too much for and haven’t used but once this winter.

So I’m driving home, and I see a snowblower with a little light on it. There’s a good idea. You can see where you are snow-blowing at night. Bzzzz. wrong!

The light is pointed at the chute.

I say again, the light is pointed at the chute.

No, you can’t see where you are snow-blowing, but you CAN see the snow as it is hurled out of the chute at warp speed to go flying through the air onto your neighbors property. Yes, every snowblower needs a light that is aimed only at the chute.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.