It is cold. Of course it could be colder. It could always be worse. But it is cold. I forgot a long sleeve shirt or a jacket tonight. So at just about two in the morning, I was sitting in my 20 degree car, which -- god love her -- started up just fine.

My car, named Lilith, is a 1984 Ford LTD, black with cloth top. Believe it or not, but I actually have a shot at putting a 302 engine (thingy that goes voom voom really loud and make car go zoom zoom really fast) in it. There's enough room under the hood even though she looks small. I also have a good sized trunk that can fit a good sized body in it with room to spare. Not that I've done such a thing.

I wonder if we're going to get snow for Christmas. We rarely get snow in Alabama. And when we do, it just seems to float on by to somewhere else. In the past, we've had a good day of a few inches. There was that one blizzard in '93 that gave us a lot more than a few inches. But when we've had a few inches, we almost always loose power and have lots of issues, icings, road closures, fallen trees, panicked peoples, and so on.

I'd love for a few inches of snow and power at the same time. I just don't think Alabama can pull that off. We'll see. Like the March Blizzard of '93, we've had some surprises.

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