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Fed Up ??

Usually, the month of February triggers the “fed up with winter” reflex in me, but this year seems to be on an accelerated schedule. I suspect the same may be true for many of you, as well. I don’t want to hear how much fun you had on your snowmobile trip, I don’t want to hear how much money you made plowing snow this year, and I don’t want to see any pictures of your kids making snow angels. I don’t want to listen to you extolling the pleasures of winter in Florida or Arizona, because I’m not there. I hope the propeller falls off your Carnival Cruise Ship and leaves you stranded in the Bermuda Triangle, because I’m not on board. I hope Al Gore’s giant, fuel-sucking jet gets grounded by a snowstorm in Minnesota, while he is there preaching his “global warming” doctrine, and that while he is stuck there, somebody makes him go ice-fishing. I hope the FCC discovers too late that digital TV transmitters won’t work when there is ice on the towers. During the Inauguration ceremony in Washington next week, I want to see snow plows and municipal workers with scoop shovels working in the background. I want the Fergus Fossil Fueled Energy Company to build a coal-fired generating plant next to my house so I can’t see Alaska any more, or feel it. I want them to leave the door open on the boiler that faces my house, and stoke that thing up until the walls on my garage start to glow and the tires get soft on the Escort inside.

Why, you may ask ? Why all this venom and vitriol aimed at my fellow man? Because misery loves company, that’s why.

There, don’t you feel a little better now? It’s good to vent a little frustration now and then, almost therapeutic. Now, we’ll move on to something a little more positive and constructive. I figure the best way to forget winter is to conjure up images of summer. To that end, we’ll root about in the archives and find a few photos from the MMOGTA and life in general that seem to look warm and sunny. I’ll look away from the window and the blowing snow, stop feeding those chocolate covered chicken bones to my daughter’s stupid little dog, slip the CD “A Summer Place” in the player, and try to get back on track.

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