Last night's gymnastics meet went fairly well. Although the GymHawks lost, their score was good and big mistakes were rare, so all-in-all it was a good start to the season for them. Better yet, I discovered that they had an unsecured wireless network running in the arena, so I could occupy myself with my Palm Pilot during warm-ups. As expected, the weather up here was beginning to deteriorate during the meet with a little bit of freezing rain but nothing serious. Went for a long walk up the Iowa River Sunday morning finally turning back when the steady freezing mist and 20 degree temperatures started getting uncomfortable. Along the way I got to see another bald Eagle cruising above the river. As I fully expected, I never did get up the motivation to work out. I'm just going to call this "recovery time" and leave it at that.
We ended up with The Daughter for lunch and then the inescapable trips to the mall and the grocery store, finally landing 
back at her place to watch the Saints beat the Eagles in the Superdome. Incredibly, they are now just one game away from the Superbowl. I'm impressed. By the time we left around 10:30 pm, the neighborhood streets resembled a skating rink. From what see on the Weather Channel, there is ice covering everything, and things are not looking all that good for tomorrow or the next day either. So the plan, at least for the time being, is to make for the Interstate tomorrow morning and take the long way home through Moline. It'll add an hour or two to the trip, but at least we'll be on Interstate highways the whole way so unless we get stuck right in the middle of another ice storm, the road (at least the right lane) should be OK. We'll see. I'm just keeping it flexible. If things get too bad, we'll just have to go to Plan B.
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