On a Sunday while the last of 24 inches of snow was still falling on the northeast, I got in an SUV and drove to Best Buy. Yes it was open. And I bought a router so I could get more than one computer in my house on the internet. It was on sale for $40.
Now this could be a post about how frustratingly complex even the simplest of computer networks is, or why they choose to break down (when I did not upgrade anything) after years of decent service.

But instead, I thought about how absurd it is that it was even possible for me to do what I did in those circumstances. Quite a tribute to the success of our species that so many people: the bored Best Buy sales people who outnumbered shoppers by far to the snow plowers to those who keep electricity and cable running at times like this, all have the luxury to go about some modicum of normalcy in the face of a huge weater event, rather than having to hunker down and wait till it blows over just to survive.