Cold Dark Night

...The Mid-Atlantic has received its first snowfall of the season this weekend, and surprisingly, Fort Gay wasn't spared the precipitation. (During high school, my friends and I always suspected that there was some kind of forcefield in place around the Fort, because most of the big snowstorms always ended up breaking up in the regions around us.) Most of this snow was simply light, powdery, misty stuff that disappeared hours after falling, but all of it was just a harbinger of super-cold temperatures tonight. Yeah, when it's currently 7 degrees here, and it's supposed to drop a few more notches as the night rolls on, you know it's cold. In fact, some would even say it's butt cold. Be careful tomorrow morning, if you lay in the path of this front. It's going to be shivery.

... On a final, somber note, I recently learned of the tragic death of one of Joe's friends from college, a local news journalist who was killed in a car accident on Friday. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers, as well as my friend. It's a terrible time for everyone involved.

All of you - please, please be careful out there.