February 2, 2014
11:08 p.m.

Happy Groundhog's Day.

So the rodent saw his shadow today and we're in for six more weeks of winter. According to the calendar, we were in for six more weeks of winter anyway. We're so silly.

If anyone is trying to reach us, we have no phone. I don't know why; the Internet is working fine, and usually when we lose one, the other goes, too. So e-mail or text will work.

Is there another storm coming in? (I refuse to check the weather channel. Not doing it. Nope.)

Denver is sad tonight, because they were destroyed by Seattle. Too bad, so sad.

I am not a football fan. The only sport I sort of follow is Baseball. I live in Denver, but my team has always been the Boston Red Socks. I don't feel disloyal to Denver over my choice, since I made that choice in grade school. I don't remember why I chose them, but I suspect it's because they always got so close to the World Series, or so close to winning it but always fell short. I'm a sucker for an underdog. And, hey! My team finally did it, after eighty-plus years, so it's all good.

Now, having said that--the thing about the underdog-- you'd think I would have been rooting for the Broncos today, but you'd be wrong. I just don't give two hoots about football. This year I didn't even care enough to try to catch the commercials. I can watch them all online if I want to, and I'm sure I can also catch Bruno Mars's half-time show.

I went shopping for groceries and jewelry parts. I haven't made anything for a month, and I got some nice stuff. And it was great being in the store while everyone else in town was home watching the game, man! No lines! No kids screaming and crying. No crowded parking lot. Awesome!

I think I must have slipped or something getting out of the car, though. My hip is giving me hell, starting with my walk from the parking lot to the store. The more I walked, the louder it bawled. I've been sitting here working on sorting through photographs and it's been sobbing and moaning non-stop, and I'm a little afraid to get up and move now.

I have to, though. I just drank a mug of tea and a great big glass of water. Be right back.

Oh...my...GOD! I don't know if it's old back problems causing hip pain or old hip problems causing back pain, but they have teamed up to form a duet, and the song they are singing is not Kumbaya.

Ouch. I mean that sincerely.

So...thus endeth tonight's little blog. I'm taking me, my hip and my back off to bed, to lie flat and gripe at each other.

Good night!