If I'm not ill for one reason or another, I actually enjoy shoveling snow. You can see tangible progress from your work. It makes a huge difference in useablity issues (if you liked that one, check my summer posts about the weeding bug/feature analogies). And it's really satisfying to work hard in the cold then come inside where it's warm to curl up in front of a good fire... or tivo. Whichever is handy.

We're getting our first real snowfall of the winter. It's making me crave skiing. Or even snowboarding. I dreamed about that last night.... snowboarding....

Books: It's kind of hard to believe I'm still stumbling over chapters that have to be retyped because they were burgled over a year ago. What was I thinking, skipping these? And better yet - how did I manage to forget so completely that this still needed to be done? What other things in my life have I procrastinated to the point of oblivion?