More mindless mental meanderings from a middle aged Mainah:

1) We own one of those newer cars that has electric/electronic bells and whistles up the proverbial exhaust pipe. Something that really irks me is the following; Its snowing, the roads are like driving on a mixture of brown sugar and motor oil spread upon glass, in other words its slippery, it Maine, we can deal with it. Well I have determined that our car was probably designed for people from the Caribbean driving it in their homeland. Here I am attempting to go up Main Street in Ellsworth, slippin and sliding..having a grand old time and I hear a ‘ding’, looking down to my control panel (sounds fancier than dashboard) there before me is a little car all over the road with tire tracks behind it like the driver had a BAC of .30! Oh for Lords sake people, I kinda figured out it was a nightmare drive, and then “ding”! How demeaning.....I’m buying a horse, and a snowmobile suit. 2) While attempting to keep my car from shooting off the road and wiping out untold amounts of leftover Christmas decorations spread across this winter-wonderland I made an observation; everyone and their brother decided to go out for a jog in the blizzard. Here I am trying not to slaughter a very tired Rudolph display when lo and behold some healthier than I person comes tearing out of a drive way. He waved and smiled I waved…sort of. OK I envy everyone who gets out and jogs, really. If I attempted it in July I would be shuttled off to my Orthopedic Dr’s office for another round of Synvisc/Cortisone “cocktail” injected into my knees with Dr. D. using a needle the size of a number 10 ET Tube! Where were these joggers in July, hell where were they in October! All I can think of is the severe oxygen depletion they suffer. There…Peace out!