Mattie's Weekend

Man, it has been a crappy day, weather-wise.  I drove to Mass in a blizzard, not exactly helped by the clump of people (pretty much all women!) driving like 30 with their blinkers on.  This could be me, but if you are so petrified by the thought of getting in the gar and going somewhere...maybe you should not?  To be sure, the thought did cross my mind that maybe I should not go to Mass, but then I realized 1) Hope and Changers skip Mass, and we are not Hope and Changers, and 2) I am a man, so I know how to operate a motor vehicle.  I arrived just in time for the Processional (4WD works wonderfully) and I am glad I did, as it was quite nice, if a little (understandably) sparse.  I thought about going out for breakfast/checking out the food pantry/gym but decided to go home, where I spent a couple of hours putting the living room back together and doing some needed dusting and sweeping.  

I should have done more -- going through the pile of boxes I brought down from the attic, going through the pile on the desk in the bedroom -- but I instead settled down to watch both of the women's top 5 games and the intro to the Daytona 500.  The first were interesting -- UCONN putting the smack down on South Carolina (Dawn Staley looked like she was going to kill someone) and then TX came back to beat LSU (Kim Mulkey always looks like she will kill someone, and given their fourth quarter collapse, she probably did).  The race...well, I watched very little of that -- I think it is boring and dumb -- but to me there is nothing more American than the Daytona 500, topped off with a visit from President Awesome, who was -- of course -- enthusiastically welcomed.

Saturday was OC day and it was... cold, sort of; I wore my clothes, but it was the warmest Saturday of the month.  It got warmer as the day went on -- the wet snow became rain, and sort of melted the ice and crud in the parking lot.  It was funny; we had a lot of volunteers, plenty of crap to give away, and...very few people.  The count was 90, and most came after 10:30 when the weather improved.  Not much you can do...the AM rush was 13, which was... impressive, in a way.  I expect next Saturday to be a real zoo.  I could take a week off, but that would be like missing Mass, and, well...see above comment.

Went about halfway through the current read -- I should have read more, but reasons.  More seriously, I can't multitask quite like I used to.  Maybe I was trying to watch the games, but also... it's one or the other.  Very troubling, though I guess I could -- and should -- try harder.  Ugh.