OMG! I Already Need A Do-Over!

It's snowing and people are stupid.

This may not seem related, but it actually is. I'm not one of those Minnesotans who complains about snow (usually.) I was actually muttering yesterday that I was a lot less fond of the cold, damp rain of Spring than the unseasonable white stuff. So the Powers the Be decided to remind me what I despise about winter, and that is: OTHER DRIVERS!!

It took me until about a half hour ago to get home. My commute is usually only about twenty minutes of driving, tops -- and that's there and back again, as Bilbo might say.

I leave with my family to take them to work/school at about 7:30/7:45 am every day. Today we did start out a little late because I had to uncover about an inch of ice and slush from the car. I also kind of tried to shovel the sidewalk, but you can't tell any more because it's been snowing nonstop.

Anyway, I got Mason to school on time, but it turned out that today was their big 100 day celebration and Mason was supposed to have stuff for "reading camp." (One of the coolest things Mason's school does, IMHO. A day of reading! With pillows and sleeping bags and hot chocolate.) I headed back into the slush and stupid to get everything. I got back to school by 10 am (in the meantime I had to dodge the stupid in the form of a skidded/off-the-road city bus and a bunch of yahoos trying to rush the construction of University Avenue). I got back in time to discover my boy in the bathroom, sick. So, I retreived our stuff from the teacher and we headed back home.

All this before my first real cup of coffee.

The good news/bad news is that I canceled the Wednesday Women of Wyrdsmiths gathering with Eleanor, and now we have nowhere else to go until 4:00 pm when we have to venture back out to collect Shawn.

I plan to hide under blankets and write (and drink coffee).

In other news, I watched my Amazon.com sales ranking after my debute on the "Big Idea." Some time after lunch it crested at about 30,000 (for all five books, actually, even the ones which have been out-of-print and sitting in the zillions for years). For a science ficiton book(s) as weird as mine, I feel this is really a very good showing. It certainly attests to the power of Scalzi's popularity.

Plus, I have found a few more readers. I'm always happy about that, since one of my long standing hobbies is world domination.