Day: March 20, 2026

What is going on with this weather right now, it’s all over the place. Who could possibly have any sort of handle on what is going on outside. How do you dress for these fluctuations? How do you even begin to prepare for a hot, sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, snowy, icy day that moves into, and out of each stage randomly throughout the day, every single day. This is madness. I for one am outraged! The freezing rain is so bad right now it would have been a day off school for the kids if it weren’t all ready the tail end of March Break.

Which reminds me, I haven’t heard a peep about March Madness or brackets, or college basketball at all this month. Did that shit get cancelled or what? Now don’t get me wrong, I neither watch, nor follow basketball, at any level, I’m just used to seeing marketing for it plastered everywhere. I did watch some of the World Baseball Classic, thank you Venezuela! So did that beat out March Madness this year? I’ll Google it.

March used to be led in by a Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issue, and March Madness splashed across every tv, newspaper, and radio spot whether you cared or not. Oh the times they are a changing. Likely means no lunch at Made in Mexico today, due to the weather, and no looking around the book store for the next installment of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I’m about 70% done with book two. Boo-urns I say, Boo-urns to the weather. Sucks to your asthma!

Not to mention the week is just about over. We’ve reached Friday morning, and all those possibilities are gone. The weather did not cooperate this year, like at all. We do have to attend a birthday party tomorrow morning, so my eldest got to see some friends, but it has been a kind of slow, and boring week off. I worked, split wood, and walked the dog a bunch. Was hoping to go see Project Hail Mary tonight, or this weekend with my wife, but given the current weather trends of volatility, that seems highly unlikely. Oh bother.

I need to pick up a card, and grab some cash for this birthday my oldest daughter is attending tomorrow. Maybe the freezing rain will end soonish, and the sun will come out? Yeah right. I’ll end up having to use a blank thank you card, and scrounge together whatever cash I have if I can’t get out to the bank before tomorrow mid day. Then do I drop and go, stick around, find something else to do for two hours, go home? I haven’t really thought much about it. Now that the peer group are turning twelve, it seems less likely that they need parents to stick around, though some can get a bit rowdy out on the ice rink. I’ll play it by ear. If they have a warm viewing area that I can stay in, I’m more likely to hang out for a while, and help out.

Have I mentioned how sick and tired I am of all this snow, and freezing rain this winter? Today is supposed to be the first official day of Spring, and we have freezing rain to shut it all down. How lovely. Five months straight of this horse shit. I’m so done with winter. Checked out. Vacated. Moving on!