Well, light, fluffy flakes of happiness are falling from the sky.  There’s almost no breeze, so it’s falling pretty much straight down.  It’s quiet enough that if you stand very still, you can hear the flakes hitting the ground.  Heaven.

We’re projected to get between 2 and 4 inches.  And it’s cold enough that it’ll hang around for a while. 

Everyone in the area is acting like this is White Armageddon, but I don’t think it’ll be that big a deal.  One of the supervisors at work was telling his people what to do if the end of the world happened today, and I piped up and reminded him that it wasn’t going to be raining frogs, just a little snow.  I’ll probably get a talking to for that later.

This morning, the kids were up and doing an ancient Norwegian snow dance in the living room in hopes that they’d close schools.  No luck for them.  A lot of the rural districts around the city are closing schools, but they have to deal with a lot of country roads to get the kids to school, so that’s understandable.

I braved the supermarket last night to do the mid-week grocery shopping, and I seemed to be between waves of the Golden Horde.  The bread shelves were picked pretty clean, so I obviously wasn’t the first one there to get food, but the store wasn’t too busy yet.  I was in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I feel lucky.

So, hopefully in the next few days we’ll be able to take BooBoo out for his first snowball and snowman.  It’s nice that the snow will stick around for a while.

“He would combine complex mathematics, Eastern philosophy, and psychodelic drugs to ….”

Not sure if I’m watching the History Channel or MSNBC at the moment.  They could be describing an aging hippie or one of President Obama’s advisors.  But then again, what’s the difference?

Today, I’m just hoping I can get home before the rock shifts.  H/T to There I Fixed It.

OK, here we go!

New York Jets and Cinci – Cinci.  They’re playing at home, and hopefully no morons injure themselves in warmups.

Baltimore and New England – Baltimore

Philadelphia and Dallas – Dallas

Green Bay and Arizona – Green Bay

So the regular season ends.  My Raiders and Redskins didn’t do so well, but the Vikings have done really well.

I was 9 and 7 for the final weekend of regular season play.  My record for the entire season was 135 and 121.  Just a hair better than flipping a coin.

To a dog is a toddler who decides he doesn’t like the chicken and starts dropping it on the floor.

To a cat is a sunbeam on a shelf above the toddler’s range of climbing.

but I’ve been flat on my back.  I started feeling cruddy on New Year’s Eve, and the next morning wasn’t able to lift my head without help.  I kept trying to treat it at home with Tylenol and such, mainly because I will have to postpone my arthritis treatment later this month if I go on antibiotics.

But after 3 days of laying in the bed, Irish Woman directed me to go to the urgent care clinic.  She didn’t want me to wait until tomorrow when our doctor was in her office.  Doc took one look at me, pronounced me with a bad case of strep throat, and game me a prescription for horse pills, to be taken twice a day.

I’ll be OK in a day or so.  It’s just a great way to start off the new year.

Irish Woman has been run ragged by BooBoo, but Girlie Bear has been helping a lot.  I owe them both a lot for letting me rest this weekend.

Back in January, I made some predictions.  Here’s how they turned out:

1.  The price of oil would go up significantly.   Kind of.  The price is up from the low it got to last year, but it didn’t raise as much as I thought it would.

2.  The economy will continue to drop.  Spot on.  The economists say the recession is over, but I’m still seeing a lot of folks looking for a job.

3.  The housing market will bottom out.  Got this one right, I hope.  Prices are stabilizing.  I hope this is the bottom instead of a plateau before plunging again.

4.  One of the Detroit Big 3 will go out of business.  Well, sort of got this one.  Chrysler and GM are working on making it back, and GM is selling off most of their subsidiaries.  But they’re still independent companies.  Ford seems to be doing well.

5.  A major disaster will occur and President Obama will not react well.  Not even close.  No big disasters this year, which is a good thing.

6.  Iran will get the bomb.  Not yet, but they’re getting closer.

7.  US casualties in Iraq will decline and those in Afghanistan will increase.  Spot on.

8.  Obama will have dwindling approval ratings.  Yep, got that one.

9.  The Republicans will work to make themselves more electable at the expense of their credibility as conservatives.  I’ll take the hit on this one.  They’re making themselves more electable, but President Obama is helping them stay on the right of center by pushing legislation and policies that are very left of center.

10.  The Republicans in Congress will have a hard time keeping President Obama from getting everything he wishes for.  Correct, but with a caveat.  The legislation that Obama and the Democrat leadership have put forward is so polarizing it’s making it easy for Republicans to get unity in their opposition, and making it hard for the Democrats to keep their conservative brethren in line.

11.  UK will beat UL.  Wrong, but the rivalry continues.

So, I got a few right, and a few wrong.  I’ll have my 2010 predictions up in a few days.

Well, it’s been a heck of a year, and I’m looking forward to 2010. 

I’ve had a lot of people who’ve made this a good year, and I’d like to thank each of you.

I hope that you all have had a good year, and I also hope you have a safe New Year’s Eve.

Last week of the regular season.

Indy and Buffalo – Indy
New Orleans and Carolina – New Orleans
Jacksonville and Cleveland – Cleveland
New England and Houston – Houston
New York Giants and Minnesota – Minnesota.  A friend of mine is going to the game in Minneapolis, and I hope she has a great time!
San Fransisco and Saint Louis – San Fransisco
Atlanta and Tampa Bay – Tampa
Pittsburgh and Miami – Pittsburgh
Chicago and Detroit – Chicago
Philadelphia and Dallas – Dallas
Kansas City and Denver – KC
Baltimore and Oakland – Oakland.  RAIDERS!!!!
Tennessee and Seattle – Seattle
Washington and San Diego – Washington.  Come on guys, just win one more!
Green Bay and Arizona – Green Bay
Cinci and New York Jets – Cinci