Well, there was supposed to be a ***Boston Weblogger meetup|http://blog.meetup.com/3/events/?eventId=3946716&action=pastdetail*** at 7 p.m. tonight, but apparently we’re supposed to get some snow, so it was cancelled. It’s 8:38, and I have yet to see any snow up here in Beverly. Frankly, I think people around here get way too worked up about snow warnings. When they say that total accumulations will be 5-10 inches by daybreak tomorrow, that is not a lot of snow. Just drive safely, don’t panic, and everything will be fine. But whatever… everyone has their own threshhold for snow. I just expect New Englanders to be a bit hardier than this.

In the meantime, here are some fun photos for you.

Keyspan blocks the street

This photo was shot looking out of our parking lot up the street. I had barely enough room to drive by their truck and the hole they had dug into the ground. I knew that when I saw the spraypaint on the road a few days ago, that trouble would be a-brewin’…

ggg|grab_bag/IMG_0161|Keyspan blocking the street|ggg

Food and… ‘food’

Becky and I had dinner at ***Taco Bell|http://www.tacobell.com/*** and then picked up some groceries at the Market Basket in Salem. Among the things we didn’t pick up:

Ground Buffalo

ggg|grab_bag/IMG_0164|Ground Buffalo|ggg

Ostrich Filet

ggg|grab_bag/IMG_0163|Ostrich Filet|ggg

Who buys this stuff? And why? (And where in Newark, NJ are there ostrich farms?)

When they say off-street parking, I’m not sure this is what they have in mind:

ggg|grab_bag/IMG_0157|Nice job…|ggg

ggg|grab_bag/IMG_0158|Nice job…|ggg

I saw this in the morning as Simon and I were leaving to work at the ***warehouse sale|http://www.christianbook.com/html/cms/general/company_events.html***. But I didn’t have time to stop, so I called Becky up on the phone to ask if she could come out and take it when she had a chance. My sick but brave wife was good enough to go outside and snap some pics of this fabulous parking job. The truck is actually parked in a guest parking space in our apartment building’s parking lot… unfortunately, the guest spaces are half-covered with snowpiles, so this person did some, shall we say, creative parking.

Hee hee.