Day 57

Good old #57 Clay Matthews. Ags told me the other day that Clay and Ozzie Newsome were his two all time favorite Browns. Dad and I used to have a laugh at every Browns game over him. Across the way from our seats, there was always a sign that had an arm curled up in an upside down flex position and it said "Clay 57." Dad and I used to always look at each other and say "The arm of Clay." Kinda stupid, but it was one of our several inside jobs.

Yesterday starting around 2:15-2:30 it started to snow here like crazy. Right in time for rush hour traffic, the snow gods let loose and we had a mini-blizzard. Luckily for me, I work from home, so it didn't affect me as much. Also luckily for me, Leah had taken the train to work. If she wouldn't have, it would have probably taken her 3-4 hours to get home, no exaggeration. I called my friend Sean and his fiancee Nancy works in Glenview, which is about 10 miles closer to the city than Leah's office. He told me it took her 3 hours to get home and she left at 2:45. As bad as the weather was, it was the timing of it all. I love snow. I do. But the problem in this city is that they have no idea how to plow in this city. The roads were terrible last night as were the sidewalks. The snow was piled so high, on my walks with Casey last night she was literally buried all the way up. She could only hop from place to place to get to higher ground. It was so cute. The other problem is that she loves the snow and wants to stay outside, which clearly is not happening.

Back to the roads, the only plow the main streets here. So this morning when I took Leah to the train station, the main roads were totally fine. But I take a lot of side streets. They are completely untouched. People are sliding all over the place, not to mention the fact that every side street is lined with parked cars. So one skid or wrong turn and you can hit a parked car. Its been this way forever. Gotta give Cleveland credit, now they know how to plow.

Also wanted to say a quick word about John Lennon. Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of his death. Readers of this blog know what a big fan of the Beatles I am. John was so amazingly creative, he and Paul together were probably the best songwriting duo of all time. I was not into his post Beatles solo stuff as much, but he did have some great tunes. As my man Mark P said yesterday in our discussion of this The Beatles essentially set all the trends and created a cultural phenomenon is the span of 7 years. My friend Jeremy has said to me for years that you are either a John guy or a Paul guy, and he is a John guy. I am somewhere in the middle, but lean towards John.

Song of the Day: "Imagine" by John Lennon