On Snow

Snow can be a wonderful thing. It can be so wonderfully fun to build snowmen with friends, and feel the refreshing cold pierce through the warmth of your hands, and then have to retreat to a warmly abode with a cup o' cocoa. It's beautiful to watch the light and fluffy flakes lazily drift down from the sky while cuddled up in a big chair with some grand friends for great conversation, and lovely music inspiring a jovial mood in the background.
But, as much as I like snow, I cannot say the same for Ruthenium. Ruthenium, my car, does not like snow.
Now, a deep enmity as Rue has for snow cannot be founded in a single day or night, but only through a long series of negative experiences and persisting problems. The first problem that sets poor Rue on edge in the edge of a storm is the fact that she, unlike other cars, is incapable of performing the simple function of defrost. This makes it so that every time the weather snows, or rains, or randomly decides to be moist, the insides of the windows of Rue fog up horribly, which makes it rather difficult to see. Sometimes I have to resort to drying the interior with a towel before continuing a journey. The second problem is that Rue also has no heating, which makes driving anywhere in the cold, well, cold. Rue is also incapable of rolling down her windows, or honking her horn, or turning off the battery and check engine lights, or having AC, or turning off her headlights, or accurately displaying the amount of gasoline in the tank, but these are just general problems, not snow problems.
Ruthenium has also had some unpleasant experiences with the snow. For example, on friday, Rue obliged to drive Seth and I up to salt lake to Seth's aunt's house. On the way there, we were caught in a terrible blizzard. Due to the impossibility of seeing the road, I had to pull off the freeway and we sat in a parking lot until the weather cleared, which led to a very late night indeed.
Today, Rue thought she would be fine on the ice roads, but no, she was wrong. Rue was going along like a happy little car, when suddenly there was ice instead of road. Rue then proceeded to drift over and smash into a curb with a terrible thud. After that, the alignment of the wheels was thrown off, making driving yet another slight more difficult.
Also, a light snowing all day made it requisite that I scrape off the windows before going anywhere today, so I ended up having to do that at least five times. The last time I did, my hand slipped and I sliced my knuckles open on some of the ice that had become a part of Rue's exterior.
Basically, my car just wishes that it was summer again.

Where Did This Come From? I Don't Know, But It's Great.

Everything has something to do with everything else in one way or another. Take for example Tomatoes and Automobiles. At first, one may think, “there is no correlation whatsoever between the sandwich ingredient and the transportation device,” but upon further investigation, we discover that one could not exist without the other. How can this be, you ask? It’s very simple, really. You see, there has always been confusion as to whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. To get to the root of the issue, scientists needed a way to get to the tomato plantations from their labs, and also to orchards in California to compare their findings to standard fruits, hence the automobile was invented.

Now, the flip side to the story is just a slight bit more confusing. You think that tomatoes could exist without cars? Well, you’re rather incorrect, and I’m afraid that I am going to have to make you look foolish now. After cars had been invented for a while, people who were jealous because they couldn’t afford cars began to spread nasty rumors that cars are bad for the environment. These rumors eventually escalated to the point where many believe that cars are straight up evil, and have also spawned the dreaded disaster that is emissions testing. You see, before people were terrified of carbon dioxide, nobody really cared about the environment, but since cars came along people have tried to compensate for the destruction that cars do to the world by trying to be more aware of their environments, and as a result have taken to taking better care of plants, and even planting their own gardens, which naturally grow tomatoes. If automobiles had never come along, nobody would care about plants, nobody would plant tomatoes, no tomatoes would survive, and tomatoes would swiftly become extinct.

Maybe next time you’ll think twice before you squish a bug, because just possibly there is an extremely vital correlation between you and the tiny insect that you have no idea exists. If you squish that bug, it may lead to your life support vanishing entirely and the world collapsing around you. Remember, if you change anything, anything could change you. Status Quo is the way to go. 

Chalk

I do believe this was a very good way to utilize the first 15 and a half pieces of my newly purchased 156 pieces of sidewalk chalk. Basically Riley and I set out on an adventure that led us to using 10 pieces of chalk in the driveway (and surrounding neighborhood) of Kat Moulton. Obviously, after that we kidnapped Kat and with her Chalked Miriam Bay's house, using approximately 5 and a half more pieces on her. This does not mean that we love Miriam any less than we love Kat, it just means that it was getting a bit late.

Also my car was acting funny, but that is a story for another time.