smacky and bucky

The snow this year has really been a tease, demanding the most expensive item on the menu, talking sweet to you, then running for the door after the date without so much as a kiss on the cheek. We ended up with an inch and a half of snow, sticking only to the grass. At least the dog had a fun time running in it.

For the second week in a row, I enjoyed Lost. I wasn't frustrated at the end of the episode (except by Locke's weird-ass actions, but that's okay). No spoilers here. Next week's episode looks to be good too. We're now 5 episodes in to 16 new in a row.

I'm currently halfway through one of the cheap paperbacks I picked up on Sunday. This one is called Creepers, by David Morrell. Here's a snippet of a review: "The plot is what Hollywood would call ‘high concept’, the theme being ‘Urban Infiltration’ – the exploration of abandoned buildings, sites, underground railway tunnels and the like by young explorers, who via the damp floor of the internet organise covert missions that take them back to the past. The moral of Creepers is that the past is not always full of sepia-tinged nostalgia. Evil often lives on."

It has a very interesting premise: Entering a building that has been closed up for 40 years and basically going back in time. Of course, some things don't want to be disturbed, so it becomes a horror story.

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Today two consultants are going office to office making sure our computers have the Daylight Saving patch on them. A decision by Congress to move it up three weeks is supposed to save oil and money, but every company in America has to pay to make sure their computer systems are updated correctly, at a projected total cost of $1.2 billion. I noticed parts of Canada follow Daylight Saving Time as well. Did Congress give them any say in changing the start date, or did they just receive an email?