Drive safely, especially now that it's snowing.

People don't line up a week in advance in Minnesota. That's kind of cool.

Less cool is the fact that we've been hurting for coverage for the last few days, because corporate apparently didn't foresee us having a single customer between Monday and Wednesday.

I'd suspect that maybe Spooky hasn't gotten up in Arizona yet, but I've seen him wandering the store in Eagan a couple of times, so I know that he's just sleeping in or somesuch.

Also, my mother was finishing her first quarter of college on November 22, 1963. I finished my first quarter of college on November 22, 1983. The quarter system is all gone now and most people think of JFK as some relic of history. But, even 20 years after the fact, it was still pretty fresh in a lot of people's minds, kind of like on 9/11/21 we will still recall that awful day.

I did get a chance to see the JFK Presidential Library this summer. It was pretty fantastic. Their treatment of that awful day 53 years ago was stark and simple. The date was written in white on a black wall and a television showed Walter Cronkite announcing the news and taking off his glasses. Very, very powerful.

I can happily say that we have met our fundraising goal, however don't let that stop you if you still want to donate. The more we get, the longer it'll be before we have to do this crap again.

Actually, it's just me. And look! I wrote a post and published it! (Besides this one, that is.)

Man, this week has been lean in the store. Come visit me. PLEASE.

Pledge Drive is going well. I'll get an update of donations later today. Also, the well's running a little dry, so if anyone has an extra post lying around inside themselves...

It seems like every time I turn around, there's a new show about people returning from the dead. I guess that's our thing now.

It's my brother's 37th birthday. Though he's done pretty well in many aspects of life, he jokes a lot, when it comes up: "Oh, don't worry about my schedule. *I* don't have a family."

The thing is, he's really joking. He's not fishing, and he doesn't feel incomplete. I just worry about how long that non-feeling will last.