29 NOV 25

Wake from dreams of hosting a podcast on textual criticism while solving puzzle boxes of coiled shoelaces before a corporate lunch of Vietnamese cuisine... to the dog chasing the cat down the hallway before rooting her stupid snout through the trash... just at six o'clock on a snowed-in Saturday when I didn't actually have to be someplace...

A heavy snow still falling in the wind that eventually becomes 6.4 inches by the end of the day...

Yali is out punching through it before ten o'clock... “I'M GONNA BUILD SAINT LOUIS OUT OF SNOW AND THEN GODZILLA'S GONNA COME DESTROY IT!” he informs me as he blasts out the front door... Okay Calvin...

Back in a warm and golden house for lunch... samurai band tied around his head reenacting monster attacks with a plush T-Rex... fake blood spray everywhere... crumpled on the ground in gurgling gore...

Meanwhile Oxbear and Patience are waiting it out in Milwaukee as eventually the highways up north shut down and already one of Patience's classmates can't make it for tomorrow's huge competition...

And Puck is still at J's from Friday night as a frozen rain begins to tap into the snow...

Second installment of Lord of the Rings and a pan of bratwursts as evening crawls in to a cold blue world...