MichaelRunyon.com – All Things Geek

The South Bend area has received somewhere between 6-9 inches of snow in the last 2 days. I typically allow these sorts of situations to pass, but today I unwillingly trudged out to the driveway to shovel out a path for our vehicles. After nearly 1.5 hours of shoveling, I grew extremely agitated with the negative progress induced by the rapidly passing snowplows on my street. I thought it amusingly ironic that our street (which is moderately busy) is often bypassed by plows on other days, but that in the 1.5 hours that I shoveled, a plow drove past 8 times, sometimes in teams of 2. 

At any rate, my driveway is now mostly clear, and my back is very sore. I am simply not in the kind of shape to allow me to just go out and shovel 80 feet of driveway. The lack of a viable exercise program, combined with zero exercise effort at work, leaves me very much a glorified vegetable. I wil limp now upstairs to crawl in bed with a hot pad, and hope that I am able to perform normal functions in the morning, without the aid of additional heat or excessive painkillers. 

To those of you that live in other, milder climates, please take this time to praise your choices and reminisce about similar situations you may have experienced in the past. For those of you that still living in the area, I wish you a hot cup of coffee, a good shovel and a strong back. Or, at the very least, a enterprising young lad from the neighborhood looking to work for cheap.