The anticipated “1-3 inches of snow, with the possibility of 2-4 during Thursday” translated to a slight dusting. The state of Maryland continued its long tradition of freaking out and dumping millions of dollars worth of salt on clear roads, putting schools on 2-hour delays, and excercising “Snow Emergency Plans.” I remain unimpressed. So much for getting snowed in with my baby.

This evening I dropped $100—gulp—on cable at the Home Depot. $100 got me 1,000 feet of Cat 5e network cable and 500 feet of coax cable, enough wire to wrap around my house about a hundred times or start my own copper mine. I got the rest of the wire run from the Pink room to the basement and began to cut out the baseboards for the outlets. Hopefully by tomorrow night I can have the pink room finished and start on the blue room next.

Random Fun Links. Quicktime 3-D view of Mars, put together from NASA photgraphs. That’s compelling stuff.