Well, so much for winter.

So much for winter – in the last week of February, we were having temperatures close to 80 degrees. Now we’re already being put on alert for a “significant severe weather event” in the middle of the week. With that in mind, and to ensure domestric tranquility, I moved my battered, lightning-struck, but still-functional old weather alert radio into the game room today, where it now sits on top of my Vectrex. (The Vectrex is only slightly older than the weather radio…) Throughout this poor old thing’s life span, it hasn’t gotten much respect from anyone – I once lived in an apartment where my neighbor in the unit next door complained that the weather radio’s alarm going off scared her. (Protip: this is tornado alley – it’s supposed to.) It gets more of the same treatment at home now – the message seems to be “if you want it going off in your ear, fine, but I don’t want it going off in mine.” So into the game room it goes.
That said, however, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings if I don’t have to hear it going off a lot anytime soon. Can we get our money back from the groundhog?