My goals for today are very modest: First, I want to stay warm. That will require a great deal of remaining indoors, preferably on the couch in the living room, wrapped up in a quilt with a piping hot cuppa close by, because there’s some kind of Arctic air thingy hanging over our heads that’s making it so cold outside, the six-pack of beer I usually leave in the garage was frozen solid when we came home from work last night. It would be tragic if it wasn’t so damned fascinating. I wonder how much alcohol beer has to have in it before it won’t freeze up? More than ten percent, I can tell you.

The only other thing I’m thinking of doing is driving down to the local Shopko to buy an electric razor. The one I have is more than ten years old and it was never very good, but I didn’t use it much so I didn’t care much. Now that I shave every day with it, I’m starting to care. And I don’t care for it much at all.

Trouble with going out to buy a razor would be the “going out” part. In this weather, I’m not too crazy about that, so I’m concentrating on just the first part of my plan for now, and so far it’s working out pretty well.