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Cold and snow

  Even though everywhere I have lived it snows, I am caught unaware every year when the weather first gets cold and flakes start falling. Yesterday as I was driving to and from work in the evening, the temperature was around 18 degrees, the coldest it's been since last winter, and the dumb ski vest thing I was wearing (I never could get the handle of those) was not protecting me. Then it snowed the last couple of days, nothing more than an inch or two but the first snow of the year, and I was not prepared. I could not handle the thought of scraping a windshield and I sat in the car waiting to be spirited away. I'll get used to this in a day or two, hell, at this time last year we already had a monster storm a week before Thanksgiving. This ain't nothing. And it's enough snow to make things festive. It also is an appropriate backdrop for the latest send from Sportscards from the Dollar Store . Douglas always seems to send his cards during the winter season, or maybe I...