Ice

Well, we are now in our third day of ice falling from the sky.

Surprisingly, for as long as it’s been falling, we don’t have more than an inch or so on the ground. Since it’s sleet rather than freezing rain, most of it is on the ground and not bogging down trees and powerlines. Losing power is a remote possibility for us.

But it’s still cold! 23º, overcast, and ice coated.

Tomorrow is a state holiday so I don’t have to worry about trudging out into the cold to go to work. But Tuesday won’t be any warmer.

The roads will be better, probably slushy where it isn’t clear, and possibly with patches of black ice, but better than today.

A friend, who’s not on LJ, sent me an email about a writing contest sponsored by Simon and Schuster and Borders, via Gather.com. I’ve decided to enter it. This may be my chance to finally get into fictional print. The problem is that I don’t think most of my stories are suitable for Simon and Schuster and we can only enter once. The paranormal romance I started is about the only story I have written or semi-written that they may consider. I’ll finish that up, enter it, and see what happens. I have until March – plenty of time to write it, edit it, clean it up.

Oh, and I joined Gather.com. It looks interesting, although there are few venues for me there – mostly Food, Writing, and the Random Musings communities so far. I’m not politically savvy enough to join most of the political communities, and the Religion communities are heavily, heavily slanted towards Christianity – which is great for Christians, not so good for me.