yea man

I've developed kind of an odd habit of blogging in my head.

This happens every once in a while and tends to be during the times that I post in greater frequencies.

An interesting event will happen, and immediately I narrate the situation in my head.

I kinda like it.

So I been home since Friday. The entire time I've been here has felt different than I initially expected, but for the most part in a good way.

This hit me at Kaden's house, plopped down on the kitchen couch chatting with Tyson, who I hadn't seen or talked to in a strangely long time. However, despite the fact that it had been so long since we'd talked, both of us suddenly made the realization that it basically felt like I hadn't ever left.

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I got home. I was here for two days just over a month ago, but I kinda feel like that didn't count. Nothing really has changed here, and I kind of like it that way; everything is extremely smooth and natural, especially on the home front.

My parents plainly haven't been negatively affected by the whole empty nest thing they got goin on. In fact they seem to kind of be thriving in mine and my sister's absence. The house is obscenely clean on a constant basis, and its kind of sick how neat everything is.

Luckily a few hours into being home I somehow managed to spill the contents of the greater part of a tooth paste tube across the counter of my bathroom. Luckily no one has noticed.... Except when my mom reads this I'm guessing she'll storm downstairs in a slight fury.

Its currently snowing pretty hella. We got a few inches last night, and about an hour ago it started to come down again, and pretty nicely.

Driving in this stuff is fun as ever, as getting up the hill to my house required me to pin my car at about 4500rpm in 1st gear, jumping up to the 6k range every few feet.

Lately I've kind of been missing my old car. (For those of you unacquainted with my previous set of wheels, read about it here: http://stothak.blogspot.com/2010/05/peace-out-car.html

While I by no means regret the upgrade to my Sentra, the Hyundai was a helluva lot easier to drive in the snow.

The issue with my current car is that its got a lot more power than my previous ride. This means that pretty much as soon as the engine connects to the wheels, I lose tractions because they spin to fast. This is all good and fun (really fun :) during the summer when traction is for wimps, but serves to make driving a bit challenging with a few inches of frozen water upon the ground.

Challenging as it may be, I tend to look at the roads and declare that the challenge has been accepted, and proceed to slip and slide through neighborhoods.

What's something that is currently pissing you off, you ask?

http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=13550942

That.

There are two very annoying things I take from this.

1. People are freaking idiots and need to learn to drive, especially in the snow. To the jackass in the dually truck behind me: I understand that the speed limit is 40, however due to the fact that I can't actually see the road due to the snow, I'm gonna hug a number closer to 30. Just because you have 6 wheels of American idiocy under you doesn't give you the right to tailgate a person with a practical vehicle.

In case you were too lazy to read the article, there was a 6 car pileup caused by some idiot who likely had a mindset much like macho man in the truck I just mentioned. He put the lives of him+at least 5 others in danger because he or she isn't afraid of no snow.

2. The part near the bottom. Apparently, a police officer can pull someone over and ticket them $124, for driving at literally any speed imaginable, despite the fact that it could be far lower than the speed limit. Sure, if someone is doing 50 in a 50 combating 3 inches of ice and snow, I would probably slap them in the face with a $124 charge as well. But the fact that an officer can pull someone over even going 15 under and ticket them upwards of a hundred dollars is kind of sickening to me.

I say this because just about every encounter with a police officer in the last 4 years has been extremely unpleasant, and the officer in question usually makes a jackass of himself or herself because they can't seem to come home from their power trip. For instance, when I was being a dumbass and got a speeding ticket, the officer was able to slap on an addition $134 because he thought my exhaust was too loud. Imagine what the good ol' West Richland police will do when they seem some teenager driving cautiously, daring to approach the halfway mark of the speed limit.

It seems like there should be some kind of ratio of speed limit to snow. Not like some sort of strict rule, but more of a guideline.

It seems that police cars, Ford Crown Victorias, with a huge 4.6 liter V8 in the front, and the drive train in rear would mean rather poor handling in the snow.

Not sure where I'm going with this, so I'm gonna go attempt to drive to the movie theater and see HP7 with some homies.

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