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spent 2 days at home with dog-niece, mom, & dad.
did nothing of significance, really.

looked at some of dad's vietnam photos. he's involved in a project to get it all written up, sorted out, and sent to one of his enlisted men who recently found him by chance and remembers almost nothing of what happened but has PTSD.

Mostly, played with the dog. Have some cute photos.

And holy shit, it is cold.

Must go to work now. Hair is wet. hair will freeze. Crap. Oh well. Hopefully skin will not fall off.

OH before I forget!!

Katy's unit was on the NBC national news last night!

...

OK, it was nobody she knew. It was a feature piece on the 3rd Infantry Division redeploying to Iraq, and they inteviewed a couple guys who hadn't deployed yet. Katy's already over there, but these hadn't left yet.

A couple bits of background: ( what's the III ID? )

I had other things to say and have forgotten them.

But. In a few moments, when my camera has stopped transferring, I will have....
pictures of the cutest dog EVAR!!!

OK, just one for now. It's little so I won't cut.



I'm going to email this one to Katy, which is why it's so small.

My niece is the CUTEST. She's a Georgia peach so this is her first snow. She really, profoundly doesn't care, except that the 'feathers' of her feet and legs get all full of ice, which confuses her. I brought her in from running around in the snow and she kept sticking her whole hind foot into her mouth, then rubbing it along her head. It was adorable and bizzarre. We did check her over and she wasn't at all injured by the cold, but they're keeping a close watch on her outdoor time with all this cold. It was, after all, 80 in Savannah last week. (It's below freezing now, boy oh boy, and they are whining.)

Scout is now settled in at my parents' house and Dad is teaching her (dun dun duhhhh [scary soundtrack]) Manners. "You and I," he sighed, regarding the slightly-vibrating dog as she stood on her hind feet attempting to chew his hands off, "have work to do." No granddog of his is going to put muddy paws on visitors. OH no.


Back to Buffalo:
We are expecting 6-12" of snow, some of it "low-density" snow, which is "fluffier and will pile up higher".
2 thoughts:
1) YAY SNOW!
2) Delayed planes = more customers at bar. Sick but true. As long as they don't cancel flights and send people home. Strand 'em in the airport so we can console 'em with booze: that's the heartbreaking truth of how airport bartenders earn money on shitty nights.