Apparently I was negligent in getting my Friday's blog entry due to my anxiety
in hurrying out the door and home before the worst of the snow storm would
hit.  We ended up with a couple of inches of snow from a storm that was
predicted to stay south of here.  Oh well, just goes to show that even the
best computer models still aren't accurate enough when it comes to storm
tracks.  Oh well, it wasn't a major storm unless you happen to live in the
Deep South, and then this would have been a "shutdown your state for 2 days"
type of storm.  

I travelled back to the farm on Saturday in the morning in dense fog.  Helped
Dad move the display cases and furniture back into their original positions
(mostly) to the best of our memories.  Sat. evening church and then the
parental modules and I went down to Farley to attend a dirt track racers
dinner and awards banquet.  Unfortunately we had to leave after the meal due
to Mom having to be up for work on Sun. by 5 am.  So we missed my brother
receiving his plaque for his racing efforts from last season. Sunday was
overcast and cool due to all of the snow on the ground.  I spent most of the
morning and part of the afternoon out splitting firewood.  I'm loving the
adaptation Dad had done to the splitter to get the splitting beam to sit about
stomach level.  Before, the beam was about knee-high, and we were constantly
getting lower back aches from having to stand bent over while working.  Now, I
get to stand straight most of the time which moves the work from my lower back
to more into the middle of the back and shoulders.  An AWESOME improvement!!! 
The only downside is that chucking the firewood is now an overhand or sidearm
throw instead of a simple underhand toss.  I'm feeling it today in my forearms
from all of the wood slinging.  A few more weekends like the one I had and
I'll have the blocked pile split for drying.  I may have to drag up another
set of logs for blocking and splitting as I fear I might not have enough for
this next winter for my parents and brother.  I'll   We'll see.

Current gripe of the day: US Post Offices still out of 2cent stamps.  Good
grief!

Wrapping up a document today at work.  Hours of entertainment as I update
requirements traceability.  Ah, the sexy and glamourous work of an engineer. 
If all goes well, tomorrow I shall be on to my next program.  I get to pour
through ancient documentation and find out what we need to validate our new
system with the old requirements.  Oh well, it still beats working at the old
job.  More tomorrowy.