What allowed me to write such a lengthy review of U2’s new album?  Snow.  And lots of it.  

Here’s the view of the parking lot and my car (the Civic in the middle of the picture, directly behind the tree) at around 2pm.  By this point, the snowfall had been pretty constant for about 16 hours.

At about 8:15pm, I go outside to dig out my car.

The snow on the car was one thing; that was easy.  The way I see it, it was clearing the snow around the car that was the real issue.