I spent today watching snow flurries fall from my window. Along with the rest of the west coast, Seattle is stuck in the midst of an arctic blast, which arrives every ten to fifteen years. We’ve been sitting on twenty-degree weather for the past few days, and with our record for precipitation in the winter, it’s no wonder snow keeps finding us.

When my nose wasn’t stuck to the glass of the windows, it was stuck to the glass of my computer. I watched most of the first season of Heroes, the NBC show about modern-day people who find they have extraordinary powers. It’s a very addicting series, and the first network show I watched exclusively over the internet. I’m afraid if the networks offered more television this way, I’d have to give up internet. I’ve lived a much better life since I gave up television more than three years ago. For all the good the internet provides, I know I spend too much time visiting and revisiting sites. I’m as much an internet junky as I ever was a television junky.

I wrote a short essay on family, but I don’t have the ability to finish it today. It’s another in a long line of unfinished and unposted works.