something I am grateful for today

Last night they were predicting 10 to 15 cm of snow overnight here (this time I will allow my southron friends to do the math - hint: divide by 2.5) -- plus drifts. That means getting up an hour early and overstraining my fibromyalgic back in order to clear the driveway.

Got up this mornin to check it out, and the snowfall is more in the range of four cm at best. Not only that, the wind patterns scrubbed half of the driveway clean already! Ended up being about 15 min of a light waving-away of the deeper bits, instead of the grueling ordeal I was braced for. Hooray for Old Man Winter giving me a break this time!

Writer's Block: Go it alone

[Error: unknown template qotd] I don't think there really is social pressure. There are a lot of social assumptions, but no real backlash if those assumptions turn out to be incorrect. Anybody that I've seen experience pressure re settling down and reproducing, was experiencing familial pressure rather than social.

I will say, though, that in the 60s there was very real social pressure about these things. There was “something seriously wrong with you” if you didn't wanna get married and/or have kids. It wasn't merely an option that you were free to choose. Since then, I'd say that society's attitudes in general have really changed. Or so it appears to me.