Discoveries

If you're reading and your attention is wandering, a cup of tea will revive you even better than a square of Dove chocolate. Sadly, this is true.

If the tea doesn't work, a walk does, even if it's 20 degrees and the sun is just a faint white memory behind the bank of dense clouds that's passing for a sky these days.

Snow at this temperature looks and crumbles like pie crust, if you're walking in the road. You feel that you are walking on the edge of a pie.

A reward for the day: trying to catch one of the classic Twilight Zone episodes on the SciFi marathon, a New Year's tradition.