Snow Is Coming, Sort Of...And Miscellania

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Last week, we experienced some pretty cold weather down here in the Deep South where i live (Well, by my standards...) We had several days last week where the high temperatures didn't climb higher than 40F, and one night, combined with the wind chill, the temperatures outside felt like 6F...no, really! Things warmed up over the weekend...in fact, I found it pretty warm last night. But wintry weather is on its' way here again. A storm is making its' way east and it is going to hit my state in the early hours of the morning. It's scheduled to bring a wintry mix with it since the temperatures will be dipping low enough. We are expected to get some ice and...you guessed it by the journal title...for the second year in a row in my state, snow. Only a little bit of snow, however...no more than maybe half-an-inch at the most. Probably enough to dust the ground, but not much more than that. The storm is expected to be on its' way out of here in the early afternoon, but the temperatures aren't projected to reach all that high above freezing. I know some of my friends out there are probably sick of seeing snow...but myself, I don't mind so much, since it isn't every day you get to see snow around here. Maybe I'll get some pictures...if we get anything worth photographing! :D

In my last journal, I mentioned how in a recent NASCAR race at Daytona (I am a motorsports enthusiast, as I'm sure those of you who know me are well aware of), star driver Kyle Busch suffered a horrendous crash late in the race when his car sailed head-first into a concrete wall at a high rate of speed. Unfortunately, my thoughts that he broke his leg in the crash turned out to be true...it turned out he fractured his right leg and broke his left foot in the accident, and to have emergency surgery performed it. He was not able to compete in the Daytona 500 yesterday, and will be out for months as he recovers and recuperates from his injuries. As I said in my last journal, Kyle is probably my least favorite driver in the entire sport due to his rotten attitude on and off the track...but nonetheless, I still wish him a speedy recovery and hope he can come back and be competitive again. I haven't enough malice in me to wish injury upon anybody, and besides...gotta have somebody to pull against! :D The thing that irks me the most about this crash is that Kyle hit a spot on the track where there was no SAFER barrier to absorb the blow...just a concrete wall. They've been introducing these life-saving, energy-absorbing barriers over the past decade, and still there are spots on major race tracks where they haven't been installed. I'm not sure if Kyle wouldn't have been injured anyways considering how fast his car flew into the wall, but I don't think he would have been as seriously injured. Seems pretty ridiculous to me...Though they are now installing SAFER barriers on every square inch of wall at Daytona, and fortunately, the Daytona 500 yesterday was a clean and safe race (although it had a very anticlimactic finish...Oh well, they can't all be classics...)

And finally...I'm getting ready to begin work on the next chapter of my "Another Family Secret". Although computer issues forced me to lose what I had written of the chapter (just a couple hundred words or so)...I must confess, a big part of why I haven't gotten around to writing it up fully yet is because I am a terrible procrastinator. I have a bad habit of putting off things until the last minute...I used to be excellent at writing last-minute papers in high school and getting high grades on them! :D Unfortunately, procrastination is not beneficial to writing...in fact, I'm well aware it is quite the enemy to a writer. At least I don't have a set schedule for writing anything; I'd never make it! I'm going to start working it on sometime around mid-week, but we'll just have to see when I get it finished...
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