We've gotten about a foot and half of snow in the last day. I'm just 
amazed that we've gotten the chance to have a proper winter (or at least
a snapshot of it) here in southern PA. 

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Last night, I had a dream that I woke up and my face was laced. I had black
stringy things crossing round holes in my face. Using a mirror and some very
gentle tweezer-work, I was able to remove a large lace. As I pulled it out, 
it wiggled and all the other laces started wriggling.
All I could do was to just carefully pull out these slimy black worms from
the open rounded wounds on my face. There was no pain, just my
mechanical tweezing.

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I think my dream was in some part caused by this 
picture of <a href="http://www.igpp.ucsd.edu/ne/2003/01/29.html">soil
rings</a> in Spitsbergen, Norway.<br>

<center><img
src="../pics/soilRings.jpg">
</center>

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