Today, March 3, 2003, marks the State of Ohio’s 200th Birthday. Happy Birthday!

I lived in Ohio during the formative years of my life – elementary school and high school – roughly from 1985 to 1997. In 1997 I came up to the Boston area to attend Gordon College, and I officially became a Massachusetts resident in January of 2002. My sister and her husband moved from Ohio to Kentucky, and currently reside there – so now it is just my parents living in Mount Vernon.

In honor of my old Ohio home, I’ll share some Ohio-related links here:

Ohio Bicentennial Celebration
Mount Vernon, Ohio Official Homepage
Mount Vernon City School District — in which my mother teaches, at Dan Emmett Elementary.
East Elementary School — where I spent 1st through 5th grades
Mount Vernon Middle School — where I would have spent 6th through 8th grades if I was several years younger. Instead, I spent that time at the old middle school, which you will not see at the aforementioned site
Mount Vernon High School — where I spent 9th through 12th grades
Mount Vernon Nazarene University — formerly Mount Vernon Nazarene College, my father is a music professor here
Kenyon College — small liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, through which I took some college classes during high school
The Ohio State University — Ohio’s largest university chain, and one of the nation’s largest. Home of the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Ohio State Marching Band (TBDBITL)
Columbus City Center — cool shopping center in Columbus
Cedar Point — amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, the roller coaster capital of the world

Enjoy!

It’s March 3, 2003:

Happy 03/03/03! 🙂

Once again I have come across a website that serves no other purpose than to make me laugh uncontrollably at work. Enjoy.

Squirrel Fishing

Admit it. I know that all of you are looking for endless fun. And we have it available for you! What?! You hadn’t heard?

Take a quick look-see at the ‘links’ section over to your right. Do you see the link labeled ‘random blog’? Good. You can click on this link and be instantly (depending on your modem/broadband speed) transported to another random blog. {DISCLAIMER: World Wide Wood claims no connection with any of the blogs you are transported to. We neither endorse nor condemn the content of any of these sites}

For EVEN MORE endless fun you can click (and hold) on that link and drag it up into your ‘links’ navigational bar at the top of your browser. You can then surf from blog to blog until your eyes bulge out and hit the monitor.

In The News:

Fire

Fire

Fire

Pretty often I come across websites that make me laugh. Today I found this one. I hope it makes you all smile a little 🙂

It’s official. The amount of snowfall in the blizzard of February 17th, 2003 eclipsed the amount dumped by the infamous Blizzard of ’78. The previous record was 27.1″ of snow dumped on Boston in 24 hours, and yesterday’s storm dumped 27.5″ of snow in the same time period. This time around, city and state officials were much more prepared, with several days advance warning. In addition, the snow was light and fluffy, not wet and cementlike as was the snow in ’78.

With all of the heavy snowfalls this season, road crews are finally back up to the level of preparedness that they were before the snow-drought of the last several years. Yesterday when I was driving to work, I saw a row of six backhoes standing at the ready in the Northshore Mall’s parking lot. This morning, as I was exiting 128-South onto the Forest St. bridge, I saw a line of eight plows all lined up and ready to go should they be needed.

It took a little extra time to get the car dug out this morning. Snow was about knee-deep, and it came all the way up past the bottom of my car door! I had to clear away some of the snow first before I could even get the door open. After I fetched the shovel and dug out around the car, I had the challenge of getting out of the parking space. Since there was a mixture of snow, slush, and ice under the tires, I had to do a little back and forth rocking action. Eventually the car rocked back and out of its space, and all was well. 🙂

There’s a big snowstorm hitting the eastern seaboard right now:

Mass Snow

CBD is closing early today, so I’ll be heading home soon. 🙂

If you’re in the snowstorm – stay safe!

Today is President’s Day. That means that I have the day off from the Bank. Horay! I have had several sets of plans for today…all of which have fallen through. ah well. I might as well go to the gym and do something productive.

I am also waiting for the snow to start. I love all the snow we’ve gotten this winter. The more the better!

I think considering news like this, it’s important to also read “news” like this.