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During jin shin I was A.) story-boarding a machinima in my head, B.) compiling a list of Things I Don't Like which only got to two and now I can't remember the first one, and C.) thinking about the best way to build and texture a touch-start chainsaw in Second Life. That got me thinking about the time I had to jack up a house and crawl underneath it to chainsaw out a lot of cedar tree slices someone had used as a foundation and which hadn't been removed when a proper foundation was built. That was quite horrid - dark, just room enough to lie down after having wormed my way in - especially loathsome for the furthest blocks (there were 8 or more - so big I couldn't put my arms around them, and an angry river of huge black carpenter ants burst out at the first touch of the chainsaw). It took an eternity to saw a block up and remove all the pieces, during which time I got covered with ants. I made my dogs go in there with me.

Anyway, afterwards Frank peered out the window and said it was snowing again, as indeed I saw when I left. I drove to Slaveways and bought a few things as 2-3 inches is predicted (nothing if you live in a snow-zone, but here, believe me, that stops things quite well). I am at a higher elevation than Olympia and it's always icier/snowier here. It's predicted to be low 20s tonight

All right - here's the thing: I have some kind of radar or something, as I saw a lump in the snow at the top of the drive and investigated. What COULD IT BE? UPS had"delivered" 2 packages to me - how nice of them to leave them on the ground in a snowstorm nowhere near my door. I would guess they were 30 yards away. No phone call, nothing. Why would they do that? How did I know to check that lump? It was just a lump in the snow... a lump in, I should add, an area of long grassy hummocks covered by snow (i.e. just another lump). Why wouldn't they just deliver another day - or at least give me a heads-up call?