missed chances

The SO met our mayor last Friday during the snowstorm when she walked to the store up the street for a few needed supplies.  According to her he was telling everyone there that the plow trucks needed to do a better job clearing the streets.  We both discounted it - needing to do better being something political figures always say - but after driving around yesterday and today, I'd have to say, he's right.  The roads have been awful, some entirely covered in snow packed down into ice well into yesterday evening and not much better today.  And while we did get more than expected, it wasn't exactly a blizzard.  As a result, I didn't get out much this weekend.  I'm especially disappointed, as I had hoped to finally make it to Northampton to see The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration, which I was all hot about last summer and early fall after seeing the David show at the Clark.  It closes today.  I should have made some time for it, but we had an awful October and then a busy November, and there it is.  Oh well, there's always the catalog.

I've written a few times on how one reason I run this site is to force me to do things I'd otherwise neglect - if I say here that I'm going to see and write about x, it in theory increases the chance I'll actually see x.  Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't look back for empirical verification of this thesis.  It would probably be too depressing, though.  I did use my time at home today to cook a magnificient carbonnade, though, so it's not a total loss (I didn't use the linked recipe, but not so far off, either.)  After all, beer is food.