Fat Tuesday

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
— John Lennon

Well, I was expecting to be away from the computer this afternoon. I had it all planned out: we were going to a mall nearby, let kindly gray-haired mother shop in the nearby organic food store, dinner after at the T.G.I. Friday's. All this because Mardi Gras happened to fall the day before my birthday.

See the quote from Saint Jock at the top of this entry? That should've warned me. I woke up this morning and it was snowing. It's expected to snow until late into the afternoon, well past the time we'd be leaving.

So I push it back to my actual birthday, like Dame Nature and Jack Frost clearly want, and hope I don't get caught in the crowds for the feel-good movie of the winter. (You know the one; somebody's probably spammed your journal with off-topic comments praising it.)

And, in the spirit of the day, a personal mutation of the meme that started it all. Pass it on?

It's Carnival time, and everybody's having fun.

( If you don't see the fnord, it can't eat you. )

EDIT 1:12p to add the code used to create the code used to create it.

( Giant wad of HTML follows. )