Today it is really, really snowing. Really. And this kind of reality I can fully appreciate indoors. I shall make soup. I shall make merry. But I can't make hay because the sun is not shining. That's ok -- don't have much of a hankering for hay anyway.

Watching the President's State of the Union address last night was interesting. The audience stood up and sat down, stood up and sat down... like it was a Lutheran church service. Except for the clapping. Of course, the standing/clapping part came mostly from the democrat side. The left side (go figure) as one looks at the podium. 

I believe the republican side did do more standing and clapping than at previous State of the Unions, though. The President did some careful crafting of phrases. You can't help but stand up for "jobs", the tenacity of the American people, America leading the global market, etc. Well, I didn't stand up, but you get the idea.