You also know you are in Wyoming when...

Battened Hatches:
Took a look at the NOAA forecast for this area and got my butt to town to stock up for at least three days. I am watching the snow fall as I write this. We could receive 8-10 inches and the winds while calm right now could return but I think I am good to survive the promised blizzard. We need the moisture.

The dry climate provided an opportunity for my Rosacea to attack my eyes, prevention of which is the main reason I take a gram of tetracycline daily. They are much better today but I was having vision problems the past two days as well as pain and redness. I also rubbed Neosporin on my eyelids, etc. and that was soothing and the ointment found its way into my eyes.

The new modem is working well. It causes my tower computer to crash. One of the reasons for going to the USB model was to use it on that and perhaps jettison the satellite connection if this works well enough, I may have to jettison the tower. Laptops are getting better and better and additional external hard drives are a must. I have several backups of my 50,000 or so digital images. Losing them would be a bitter pill to swallow.