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As a public service, I have stopped searching for iconic winter images and am posting a photograph of someone surfing.  This is the first of the actions I am taking to ween myself off of my snow addiction.

♦ It’s ok to stop watching the Weather Channel now.  I caught myself turning to TWC Thursday even though there was no real reason to and discovered it was snowing in Dallas.  Interesting, but that has nothing to do with my life.  It will snow four inches today in Atlanta.  My son lives there, but it’s only four inches.  Goodbye Weather Channel.  Until next time.

♦ It’s ok to stop visiting Accuweather.com.  But I did discover they have a much better site than Weather Channel.  You don’t have to work as hard to find the stuff you really need to know.  They also have a wonderful collection of very knowledgeable weather nerds who have all the esoteric details that interest me when all weather-hell is breaking loose.

♦  It’s ok to stop talking to all your friends about the Great Blizzard of 2010.   It was really something.  The sun is out now and the stuff is finally beginning to melt.

♦ Based on what I heard this morning about the nightmarish commute people have had, it remains ok to bitch about the District of Columbia and its lack of snowplowing prowess.

♥  It is not only appropriate, but perhaps, an absolute necessity to begin thinking about Valentine’s Day and what, precisely, you are going to do for your loved one Sunday.  Flower stores are delivering.  They have no choice.  This is how they make money.

♦  It may snow a little bit on Monday but it’s not expected to be a major winter event.  Remember, we may once have been snow-wimps, but we are now grizzled veterans of arctic climate conditions and we now laugh at a mere two inches and move on as if nothing had happened.  We are the new Chicago.