Huh...

Tom DeLay is getting three years in prison and ten years on probation.

Of course, it will probably be years before his appeals are up...

*sigh*

It wouldn't be a frozen wasteland of the Deep South without someone managing to set fire to something. So far this morning, I've heard two fire trucks and an ambulance go by. (Long enough apart that it's almost certainly different emergencies.)

Snowmageddon continues?

So, after going in this morning to help open the store (you see, I had the key, as I closed the store), I get everything turned on, greet co-workers, all that fun stuff.....

and on the way back home (all of three blocks), I get a call from one of my co-workers, who I had literally said 'bye' to five minutes earlier, letting me know that we might be closing again tonight (around six-ish) because of continued snowmageddon.

If so, that means I will have worked a half-shift so far this week. And it's my turn to leave early this Wednesday.

It's like my own little vacation.

Edit: Yup, we're closed again tonight. Because there's a good chance it will snow/freezing rain again.

*sigh*

Because I'm not working tonight, I just realized I don't have enough soda to get through the night at home. (I drink more soda when sitting at home, then when I'm sitting at work, you see.)

Off to risk life, limb and dignity for Dr Pepper.

Yeah, right.

So, apparently, in Fantastic Four #587 (which isn't out yet), one of the Fantastic Four is going. to. DIE.

To which I respond, "Yeah, right."

Because, really, what are the chances that they'll stay dead? I mean, they brought back Steve Rogers after he was shot and killed. (Oh wait, it was really a time travel gun that just looked like a big honking pistol. Let's just ignore the sniper who shot him in the back.)

But there are odds on which one will die (once again proving that people will bet on anything).

Sue Richards 1:1
Johnny Storm 4:1
Reed Richards 6:1
Ben Grimm 100:1 (so, you know, he's probably safe)

But I can't see them killing Sue off. For one thing, it's a team of three guys and one woman, and they kill the woman? Nah. It's a little too "Women in Refrigerators" for my taste. But even if they do, seriously, give it a couple dozen issues and she'd be back from the dead, or it was a Skrull (oops, it's a little late for that one), or it was a clone (wasn't this over-used in Spider-man's comics), or it was a version from another dimension....

Look, this is comics. It's incredibly hard to stay dead.