February Madness

Is there anything good about February? In the northeast it's the worst weather month. Football is over, baseball hasn't really started except for steriod news. Even the normally entertaining sports talk shows are concentrating on hockey and basketball. One just hopes for a baseball spring training game to show up on some cable channel at 3:30 pm Sunday. Well, at least I hope for that.

My memories of February are consistent.. I misspelled it on a test and got humiliated (probably because I was a junior in high school). I once spent 17 days in the hospital in February of 1987...I can recall watching the snow fall while I fiddled with my IV tubes. My mother had a theory that most bad things happened in February (she would have been 80 today IF she were alive). So what's to look forward to? March is no picnic with this "in like a lion, out like a lamb" crap.. March is an improvement but it's really just a transition period to get into more normal times.

So I wonder what the unemployment numbers will look like in March. I know five people who just filed so I will have to watch the news to see if they tallied that..

Finally the February ice has gone from my driveway. Good and bad. Good because now I can walk to my mailbox without golf shoes - Bad because the 300 lbs of salt I used over the winter has created what looks like a relief map of Afghanistan...