Eye Doctor

Did household chores and readied myself for my eye doctor visit in the morning, then was picked up at 12:30 and off we went.
It had started snowing lightly about ten and by the time we got out of the appointment, it was still coming down.  We got home fine, but it took my friend a lot of extra time, as the roads were hazardous.  Of course, I stayed in the rest of the day.  And how many feet of snow did this killer storm dump on Little Egg Harbor? Two point four.  Oh, wait, that's inches, not feet!
So all the hype, all the drama, all the frantic posturing was just to ensure that the bug-eyed populace would continue its rapid decline into any and every thing the powers-that-be deem terror-inducing.  Could be weather, crazy people wielding guns, the latest mysterious and always-fatal illness (SARS, Bird Flu), the diabolical machinations of the foreign country du jour, or actual terrorism--they all serve to return Americans to babyhood while ridding them of the last vestiges of common sense.
Now that the snow seems to have been a bust, "KILLER COLD" is trotted out to convince people to huddle, trembling, under the cozy blankets provided by Big Media in the service of Big Government and its evil twin, Big Business.
My eye doctor appointment?  Oh, yeah, I have to have cataracts removed and am being pressured to have the procedure as soon as possible.  We'll see (get it? See? Heh, heh).