ryssee's world

I live near the coast, so instead of the 8"-to-10" of snow my neighbors to the west have the pleasure of cleaning up this fine evening, I had the unusual experience of shoveling and salting the sidewalks around the house, part of the driveway, and the stairs... IN THE DRIVING RAIN . It soaked my coat and hat all the way through. My boots are nice and drenched for tomorrow morning's commute. I can't recall a time when I have ever shoveled in the rain. It felt like 6" of snow, but was packed down to about 3" of yucky-dirty-heavy-brown-sloppy slop-slop waterlogged snow. Add to that the great joy of discovering that one of my neighbors hadn't scooped up after the dog. Nothing like throwing a nice heavy load with a nice load in it. Even though it's pouring down rain outside, it's about to deep freeze, so instead of spending 4 hours out there chopping at the ice like I did on Christmas Eve, I decided I'd rather sleep tomorrow morning. I hate this...

http://www.smallcanbebig.org/about/ Just made my first small donation. I love that it's going directly to a local family. I love the internet.

TJ Maxx story by The Onion ... so funny! We all know how how much I like to shop there.

SIX days left...count 'em SIX! Check it out dudes this is sooooo cool. The Barack Obama song by Michael Franti and Spearhead. We saw this song live at Lupo's in Providence, RI last month. SO COOL! At that point it was election joy but right now it's time for the man elected to rise to the challenge! I can NOT NOT NOT NOT!!!!!!! wait until G.W. Bush is no longer our Prez and we have someone in office who has actually succeeded at everything he has ever put his mind to. HUGE challenges ahead of him...it's a lot harder to get us back on track rather than taking us off of it, putting us 40 years behind the times, and taking our civil liberties away in the ride. Well, check out the song in the video. Whatever way you swing you can't hide from the optimism and toe-tapping groove this video provides. :-)

I've always looked for an excuse to post this picture. Now I can say I've been photographed with a Hall-of-Fame Red Sox player! Congratulations to Jim Rice, who on his 15th try finally (and most deservedly) made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame! I was lucky enough to meet Jim Rice - one of my childhood heroes- at the amazing Legends Suite at Fenway Park with Randy a couple years ago. I even got on the jumbo-tron with him in the fourth inning or so. I almost didn't go 'cause I didn't want to ask my boss for a second early day in a row to go to see a ballgame.

We only have 11 days until George W. Bush isn't our president anymore. How are you feelin' about that? ;-)

A few months ago I stole a blog idea from my friend Chris. It had something to do with MacGyver, I think. Today I read a post from my bloggie-buddy Har , which I think is totally meme-able. So here I go. I'm tagging Chris and The Gav Menagerie , 'cause I think they'll actually do this at some point. Even though I owe Chris a meme about the Summer of '89 and some scanned photos from the 80's. Which I'll do, once I learn how to use the scanner. Also, I saw The Bucket List with Randy on New Year's Day, which was watchable, and makes me glad I'm not actually waiting to cross stuff off my list. Anyway... Borrowed and Completely Meme-able Topic: Here are a few things that I want to do with my life before I kick it. There are 10. 1. Save enough money for retirement, but not at the expense of living life now. I can't bet that I'll live long enough or be healthy enough to see and do everything I want to. I'm probably going to wind up a greet...