Bicycled to work yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised that someone had chopped through the 4-inch thick ice along a path I use. I was expecting to have to walk through that area. Not that there's a chance that whoever did that will read this - thanks!!

The wind was not so cooperative. The *only* day this week that the wind did not come off the water was yesterday. It came very strongly from the WNW, right in my face for 15 solid miles. A great workout, but it could have waited until I was a bit more in biking shape.

I get to speak at four masses over the weekend and try to convince everyone to help out with our financial situation. I drew the short straw on that one...

Did I see snow in the forecast for Sunday into Monday? Peter won't like that now that tennis has started for the season.

I've been spending a lot of time on the reunion planning. Sent out individual email messages to about 70 classmates asking for confirmation of their mailing address. This will aid us when/if we need to send anything in the mail, and also will help track them down later if their email address changes -- I hope.

Even though I work in the industry, I still am amazed how quick and easy it is to email and receive a reply from people as far away from New Hampshire as Hawaii. It's nice to know the connections are there.

Last week was likely the last local cross-country skiing for me, unless we get another storm. I'm looking forward to getting back to bicycling to work soon.

Yesterday, over 20 inches of snow. 27.5 in Boston, setting an all-time 24 hour record for any date/year.

Shoveled many inches of snow off the roof of the garage, as rain is being predicted for this weekend. Since the house has struts supporting the roof at better than the minimum spacing, I'm told this should be sufficient to prevent problems. We'll certainly see... I have gone up on the roof of the house before, but it's not something I'm planning to do now.

Today, over 40 degrees, the snow is sticky and melting. This should reduce potential problems with rain.

We've started working on the DHS 1973 30-year reunion. If by any chance you know anyone at our directory page, and if we don't have the correct address or email address, please let me know. It's hard to keep up with everyone with all the changes going on...

Stay warm (and dry for you people in S. California!).

OK. I'm finally getting back to this page. I can't believe anyone is waiting for updates, but here you go.

It's been a mixed winter weather-wise. If anyone followed my ice rink problems from last year, this year is not any better. It's certainly been cold enough, but there have been a couple of key storms that resulted in trouble getting things skate-able. And when the ice was good, the wind-chill was below zero. It's going to take some convincing to make me think it's worth the expense and effort to do this next year.

OK - I can't believe I haven't updated this since August, but computers are never wrong... right??

I ended up bicycling over 1500 miles last year, which is probably a good thing both energy-wise and health-wise.

Unfortunately, if the current weather situation continues, I won't be cycling to work until June!! We've been below 20 degrees (F) all week with a nasty wind. "The bridge" isn't even plowed, so that would be a problem as well.

Still not as cold as 1975/6(?) [I can't remeber which year it was] when I recall that the Cocheco River was frozen all the way to Hilton Park. So far it's not even close, although on the way home from work tonight I saw that it was frozen about a mile away. Great Bay is still not frozen.