DSM Blizzard.

I would have written last night, but after driving home in blizzard like conditions, I was pretty tired. I needed to shovel the driveway too so I could park the car. Let's just say it was an interesting evening. The office is closed today as with most places. Reports are saying it's one of the worst storms in recent history. You can definitely hear the wind outside and my heart goes out to those who don't have to a choice and have to be outside for one reason or another. Des Moines is pretty much at a standstill today. I believe all the schools are closed and some big companies decided to close. It's just not worth having people on the roads especially with the road conditions and the weather.

Joel closed the agency at noon, and I had gotten in touch with the owners yesterday afternoon asking him if the restaurant would be open and he said he was planning on it. Joel and Kathy graciously offered to let me stay at their home if after the restaurant closed I could not make it back. All in all, we had two people come into the restaurant and they both lived right around the corner. I also had one order to go. When I called the owner and let him know about the business, he basically said it made no sense to keep the restaurant open so closed at 7PM. I was out of there by 7:30PM.

The drive home was slow and in many ways, fun because there were so few cars on the road and I felt like I had the entire road to myself. Those of us who were on the road were driving very slowly. I made it back safe and sound, but I do know that late last night, things definitely got worse. The wind picked up and the weather dropped. Tomorrow, I do believe everyone will be back in the office again because they are expecting things to die down this evening.

How was the weekend? Well, I really did not do much. I called it my sports weekend. I watched college basketball and football, then it was soccer. That's pretty much all I did. Oh, I did watch the movie Taking Chance which I borrowed from the library and it was a very powerful movie. It's about this officer who accompanied a soldier who died in the war in Afghanistan to his final resting place. Wow, what a powerful movie. On Sunday, after work at Paradise, Anna and I watched the movie, Brothers playing at the theater and it's definitely one of the best movies I've seen this year. Very real and personal and it talked about the impact the way has on returning soldiers.

I can't believe but Christmas will soon be here. I've got enough at the office to keep me busy, but it'll be nice to take some time off and just enjoy the holiday season.

I guess that's all the news from me.