Saints Notes    February 9, 2010

Alright, it's a snow day.  Snow school today for teachers and students at Lutheran and a whole host of students across Indiana and quite a bit of the Eastern half of the U.S. of A.

It seems to me that Snow Days used to be different.  There was shoveling to be sure, but then after a hot chocolate and some hot breakfast it was time to grab a sled and hit the nearby hills for hours of fun (or fun until someone got hurt).

Now, a snow day means we work from home.

Thanks(?) to computers, cell phones, and the latest gizmos, gadgets, and thingamajigs we can do almost everything from home that we can do at work. 

I'm not dressed as formally as I might be at work, but the effort continues (okay, maybe not as strenous, but it does continue).  Updating the database via our internet access, making contacts, sending email, even preparing a mailing all from the relative comfort of the home computer near a window showing dogs and owners frolicking in the snow.  The hot chocolate still tastes good!  (You know, another hot chocolate would taste good right now!)

Mmmmmm.

Speaking of snow days gone by... what is it with the expression, 'Back in the Day?'

I've recently heard this phrase uttered by freshman in high school. 

To what time are they referring?  2005? 

It's a phrase to mean nothing to anybody.  But I suppose it is what it is (to use another phrase that moves lips without communicating).

Does 'back in the day' presume that was our prime, or just to a status prior to what we just posted to our facebook page? 

It's beyond me.  Back in the day, the Pony Express used to bring the mail over hill and dale and maybe it arrived after weeks on the trail.  Then mail service seemed long when it took more than a week to arrive.  Now, if you don't answer my email within 30 seconds, it's difficult to understand what is taking so long!

Back in the day - everything took longer, we didn't work on snow days, and there was more snow as well!

And 'back in the day' Valentine's Day meant cut-out hearts and cards - instead of $85 flower deliveries. 

Aaah - maybe that's the answer - 'back in the day' means anytime that makes us feel less old.

Me, I've drinking my hot chocolate - can't write anymore with snow on my brain.