It's supposed to look like that, right?

Here in Columbus we're in the midst of one of those dreaded "wintry mix" storms that we see way too often.

Interestingly, last Tuesday night we had the same kind of storm which dropped a nice 1/8" layer of ice over much of the city. I decided that before I left early Wednesday morning I would get the trash can from the end of the driveway. (what a good boyfriend I am...) Naturally, it wasn't until I was all the way to the bottom of the driveway before the coefficient of friction dropped sufficiently, I fell heavily and my humerous and scapula decided to take a break from their long and close relationship.

That look you see above is actually a smile, you just have to look at it through the lens of a couple hours of intense pain, that's all.

I got the word today that I have another month of sling-wearing to look forward to, so my New Year's resolution to try to do some more regular posting will have to wait a little. Oh, and I'm super happy we decided to invest in a Wii...

The Old High School

A post on Tiger Stadium from Shyster today reminded me of a similar situation in Wooster back in ~'95. After many years of hearing about how dirty, unsafe and generally awful the old high school was, the city ponied up somewhere in the the neighborhood of $39 million to build a new one.

Everything was great, the students (we) spent the last few weeks of the final school year committing random acts of vandalism that never would have been tolerated in any other situation (let's face it, the teachers hated that building, too) and the next fall we moved to the glittering new palace of secondary education. Of course, someone decided that the old high school was an architectural landmark worthy of preservation and mounted a long and expensive campaign to save it.

The original plan had been to tear it down and build a nice, new, state-of-the-art elementary school but, thanks to the "preservationists" (This building was a pretty common looking neo-gothic circa 1915 building, nothing special as far as I can see) the plan changed to preserving the facade and building the grade school inside of it, at god knows how much additional cost, and we ended up with a ridiculously expensive three story (when's the last time they built a school with more than two? One assumes there's some kind of fairly plausible reasoning for that...) grade school.

Sounds a little like a "recreational and educational" center in a Major League ballpark. Or a research center in an old Lazarus store. Actually, the school sounds better, but still a waste...