Monday links: Let it snow edition

But I love it for two reasons – to look at it, and because it gets me out of work down here.

Ok, three reasons – I love to laugh at people freaking out because of 2 inches or less.

Glad you’re okay after that spin-o-rama. Done a few of those, my ’69 Newport had a bondo front left fender from a spin on black ice.

Back in the day when it would snow hard I’d grab the ole man’s pickup truck and a buddy and we’d chain that sled up and head out to make some beer money. One time we found this black dude in a van so we agreed on $10 and we hooked that dude up and yanked and yanked but I couldn’t pop him out of the ditch. WTH? So we go back to check and the dumb bastard has the wheels cocked the wrong way so we straighten them out and try again. Finally we get the SOB out of the ditch and go to get our money and the POS rabbit’s on us. Asshole.

So we head out to make some more coin and about an hour later we’re tooling down Page Ave in Overland when we start to pass this familiar looking brown van. I looked over to my buddy Jimmy and said, “Nah, we can’t be this lucky. Check the driver.” Sure as shit it’s Mr. “Please Help Me I’ll Pay You What Ever You Want.” Right as we get nearly past him I yanked the wheel hard right and off that van goes into another ditch as Jimmy gives him the bird out the window. Kharma baby.

It’s so bad that the link won’t even work.

My buddy Mark and me ice skated down Cypress Rd and then over to Northwest Plaza on the Rock Rd. There wasn’t a car on the roads that day. A few tried but spun out into trees or buildings. The icicles were like 6 foot daggers off our roof that day.

Got out of school for Christmas break a few days earlier for snow and didn’t go back until the beginning of Feb.
We were off the entire month of January. About 6 wks total.
Had to go to school about 3 Saturdays until the state legislature passed an emergency something so we didn’t have to go the required number of days that year.

For a Russian he looks like he plays a pretty physical game. A Russki who’s physical, and can score…and actually appears to be excited about coming to the U.S. to play. I like it!