Winter Wonder Land

Winter has come to Minnesota once and for all. Brainerd only got about three inches of the white stuff but Duluth is reporting 21 inches. Minneapolis is saying they're shoveling around 8 or 9 inches. And it's still snowing. But the good news is the temps. Today it's 28. But the cold will hit us next. The high forcasted for this Saturday is 10 degrees. But hey...that's above zero.

I went to the UPS store on Tuesday the 13th to mail a box to Casper Wyoming. They told me they couldn't guarentee it to arrive there by Christmas. I looked at them with a stupid ass stare. They proceeded to tell me that it "probably will get there, but we have to tell you that. The guarentee cut off was yesterday". Unbelievable. I could walk it there in time for Christmas. Well I checked the box's tracking this morning and it's on it's way to Commerce Colorado today. At least it's heading west. It sat in Eagan for the past two days. I was going to send it through the post office but I didn't want to hassle the people. What people you ask? The people. The mail carrier will try to deliver it. So that person would have to drag it around all day. And if the folks aren't home to recieve it, then the mail carrier has to drag it back to post office after leaving the yellow slip. And then the people receiving the yellow slip would have to take the slip to the post office and redeem it for the freak'n box that's now sitting in Commerce Colorado, wherever the hell that is. Where as UPS just drops the box at your door and hopes that the neighbors don't steal it.