Not much time to write, but I have one three quick things:

1. I have been too busy to even get on the internet (which is, for me is pretty bad - because I practically live on the internet). I've been out in the "soul shattering" ice storm here in Portland for the last few days. I've been sitting in my TV news van trying to thaw out between storm coverage cut-ins, and then staying in the hotel next to our station so that I am 'right there' if needed. As of this moment, we've been on for 37 hours straight.

2. I have no voice whatsoever. That's not a metaphor about feeling helpless or anything. Literally, I open my mouth and barely anything comes out (with the exception of a crackly low pitched noise). I lost the last part of my voice yelling at a guy who was urinating on the front tire of my news van. I was up on top of the big frozen hill in my van (Skyline, as it's called by the people of Portland. "Dead Baby Hill", as it's called by my friends). Some jackasses came driving up in an SUV and were driving around me in circles, slipping and sliding everywhere. Then they finally pulled over and one of them started to urinate on the tire. I scared him away when I lit up his crotch with the MEGA SPOTLIGHT. Then, the driver was all, "Dude, we were trying to entertain you." I lost the rest of my voice after that, yelling at him about his reckless driving, stupidity, and such.

3. I've seen way too many local TV commercials recently where people pretend to be newscasters. The commercials are all the same: It starts off with really bad fake news graphics and a lame voice-over, "We have breaking news to tell you about at...(insert name of marginally-ethical car dealer)." Then they go to a fake press conference or used car lot where a semi-attractive lady pretends to be a reporter, but apparently has never actually seen an actual news report, so that maybe her little preformance would seem less ridiculous (which is funny in itself, since people that act in local TV ads think that they're actually have a serious career as an actor, and will appear in just about anything so long as they end up on TV.). I wonder if there'll be a point where some advertising guy goes "You know, maybe we should lay off the fake news ads, since they're the oldest and lamest car dealership ad cliche." I can only hope.

Ok, gotta go. Stay warm.