Thursday, January 29, 2009

White Death 2009

So the White Death descended upon us this week.  I've posted a few photos from the event here.  

Rebecca and Wesley were off school for three days, which for my wife's district CPS is really unprecedented.  We raided the library for a bunch of movies as our Direct TV was out.  Direc TV was VERY helpful.  They told us we should clean the ice ourselves and that many of their customers in the "northern states" choose to install heaters on their dish.  "Northern states".  I was waiting for her to call me a damn yankee.  She also informed me that the problem would fix itself in 3-5 days and that "sunlight and evaporation are great ways to clear snow and ice from your dish".  Sorry we don't have any Sunshine and Evaporation stores here in the northern states...

Anyway Becks got on the roof today and cleared the dish.  The kids were watching Spongebob in glorious HD again in no time.  

All in all it was a nice few days at home with the family.  Becca and I watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Step Brothers.  Pretty funny.  We also hit Target just as they were doing 75% off toys.  No kidding we finished all of the shopping for the kids birthdays and believe it or not most of Christmas.  If you have kids watch the Target.  

Hope everyone survived the white death.  

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