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It’s finally snowing. There’s not much, but it’s enough to cover everything in a thin layer of white. This town always looks better when snow-covered, especially when no one else is around, as happens at 4AM. When I was out walking, I think I saw only two cars out, plus heard a snow plow plowing streets to the North of me which I didn’t see. I also enjoyed the opportunity to be the first to leave footprints on the snow-covered sidewalks.

This first snow also gave me the opportunity to continue a four-year old ritual I have. The primary component in this ritual involves wearing my kilt. While one might think that this would cause me to get cold when walking around outside, it doesn’t. Due to the clouds and snow and lack of wind, its relatively warm outside (30° as opposed to the 14° wind chill two nights ago). Unfortunately, there isn’t enough snow on the ground yet for snow Scotsmen.

I haven’t heard Craig’s opinion on the snow, but Jason’s complaining about it and Nick and Mike (who took the above picture) both are talking about doing doughnuts in it. Before Josh left about 2AM, he made a miniature snowman (about 8 inches tall) complete with arms made from the tines of a plastic fork. It’s currently sitting in the freezer here at work.

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All the weather reports for this area keep talking about how we’re supposed to get snow tonight, or last night, or tomorrow night, or last week, or whatever. So far, we’ve not had a single flake. Sure, we’ve had plenty of rain, both freezing and regular, and even what could almost be considered sleet, but no snow. Apart from yesterday when it was 58° outside, the temperature’s been cold enough to snow (hanging around 40 each day) it just hasn’t. Of course the cold temperatures also makes my nightly walks that much more fun. I may need to get my hat out of storage, as 14° with wind chill (like it was an hour ago when I went outside) is rather chilly.

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Recently, I came to the realization that I’m walking less in my current town home than I was in the apartment downtown. This may sound odd, as I now have to leave the building to go to work, but I have a garage now so no longer have the mandatory two blocks each way to park the car.

Having come to this realization, I’ve started taking steps (no pun intended) to increase how much I’m walking. Primarily, this takes the form of making sure I leave my desk at work and go walk around outside. I don’t have much time for too long of a walk, but I can at least walk around the block. I’d gotten to the point of making it around the block (four tenths of a mile) without too much difficulty, so tonight was the first night I’ve expanded my circuit to walking around two blocks (six tenths of a mile). I know six tenths of a mile doesn’t sound like much, but I let my back and leg atrophy too much, so have had to start low. As it is, I was already aching by the time I got back to the building.

I’m thinking my next step on this recovery is to add additional walking at home to my stretches and the walking I do at work. As the town home is located on the edge of a subdivision, I should be able to find plenty of room to walk without having to worry about too much traffic. My short-term goal is to be able to go a mile without any difficulty, but that may not happen for a couple weeks.

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