Good:
It’s snowing, I have cinnamon rolls in the oven and a warm house and flannel sheets and hot coffee and a lovely family. 

Bad: Most of said family will be out on the roads today, which always makes me worry.  Dave has to do a hockey game, so 20 miles of travel, total, but my folks are driving the 100 miles from the lake to stay here tonight, as they have a flight tomorrow at 5am.  That’s the one that most icks me out.

Good:  It’s snowing, again, and this winter has been ten times the winter we had last year, and that makes me feel better about the state of the planet.

Bad:  The 20 inches predicted, on top of the foot from Wednesday, has put a serious damper on my C25K plan.  I DID get 2 of my 3 runs in by stacking them last weekend, and hopefully I can get four in next week, weather permitting.  I don’t mind the cold (and snow weather isn’t very cold) but I do mind the narrowed roads (due to huge snowbanks) icy base, and city snowplow dodging. Spring is coming, right?

Good: The new shopping center (annoyingly called "The Parkade," which may or may not be because it replaced a trailer park that was vacated ten years ago, or so) is going to have a Kohl’s, A.C.Moore, LNT, and, drum roll….. Old Navy.  The lack of an Old Navy in Bangor is legendary, consideringall the reasons there SHOULD be one.  We have the flagship state university 8 miles up the road, and several other smaller colleges in town, Bangor is a service center city, meaning that it services a gigantic land area, not just itself (in this case, all of Northern Maine and a good chunk of the Maritimes), and the nearest ON, in Augusta, is a destination for people.  I kind of feel bad for Augusta, because no one will have a reason to drive down there anymore.  You think I’m kidding.  We were hoping to go down tomorrow, because Dave needs jeans.  Anytime I’m there, I see people I know from here, and the parking lot has lots of UM parking passes dangling from rearview mirrors.

Bad:  It will probably be a mob scene for weeks after opening, and it’s not opening til "late summer/early fall." Whatever that means.

Good:  UM Hockey won the first of their Best of 3 QF series, and there are allegedly still tickets available for the game tonight.

Bad: The ticket office is closed on Saturday, so we’d have to drive up and hope we could get some at the door. (I’m working on Dave to take a minute from his lunch break to see about getting tickets for us, but we’ll see.)