Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

And I appear to have lost my ice scraper.

I have to scrape my car windows this morning. I borrowed the wife's scraper and at the same time scraping her car.

She is on her way to sunny Florida for some customer meetings.

Yup, some place warm. She is none to happy, given that Texas feels a bit like Michigan does at the moment, which makes her very happy.

I told her that I would gladly trade with her. However, I honestly wouldn't even know where to start in doing her job, I have a vague idea.

Well, I got to work early, but not early enough to beat Jeremy into the office.

He and I have had an unofficial competition going to see who can make it into the office before the other.

Jack and Bill are driving down from Dallas for a couple of days of meetings down here in Austin.

I best get cracking.

Back to the grind.

Laterz

Took me a few tries to come up with a header.

I was afraid "I think we are all gonna die!" was too scary.

There is a "Winter Weather Advisory" in effect for central Texas. This might have been upgraded to an "Ice Storm Warning" by now for Williamson county.

The TV news said we should have 3 days of food and water in the house. This type of advice apparently stirred quite the frenzy at the grocery stores. Gina and I went to HEB to pickup stuff for dinner (we had not yet heard the 3 days of food and water advice on TV yet). I knew a storm was coming but this was ridiculous.

So where did the headline come from? It comes from the fact that the meat section @ HEB had a big sign that had been put together quickly to say "SOLD OUT OF GROUND BEEF. NO MORE GROUND BEEF. SOLD OUT."

Ummm, yeah. I have never seen any store sold out of ground beef. I have seen them sold out of turkeys or good steaks that are on sale, but never ground beef.

What the fsck? Mind you the water section had PLENTY of water left. But man do people think the ground beef will be useful in an ice storm.

It might also be that it was on sale for $1.99/lb. But it wasn't the only thing going for broke. The whole meat section was picked over. They were even running low on brisket. The were sold out of Smokey Links. They were pretty much out of bread too.

From what the checkout clerk told us the store was a mad house right up until we got there. That all the lanes were open and it was taking up to 30 minutes to get through the line.

I mean, in all my years living in Michigan I don't remember people freaking out like that over an ice storm. I mean, sure they happen here once a year, at the very most. But good god. Buy some soup, some candles, some wood and some batteries for the flashlights and some extra jugs of water.

Do not buy all the ground beef in the store.

Well I really need to get to bed.

Laterz.