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I've shared this on Twitter, Facebook, and my gChat status so far, but I love this commercial so much that I must post it to my blog for all to see. Also, I'm too exhausted to write anything productive. Enjoy!

this is surely one of thousands of blog posts about the snowy weekend in DC, but I wanted to share some of the sweet snapshots I was able to take. (i'm having trouble getting the captions in the right place, so i'll just number them below) 1. Near Eastern Market at about 10:30pm on Friday night. I would guess maybe 6 inches was on the ground at this point. 2. Saturday afternoon around 3pm. About 20 inches on the ground and still snowing steadily. 3. Smithsonian Metro Station. 4. the Korean War Memorial, which is eerie enough without the snow. Forecast shows 4-10" more are coming tomorrow night! Yeesh.

this week, i have experienced some 'you become like your parents as you get older' symptoms. let me explain. my dear ol' dad is the biggest fan of Doppler radar out there. my sister and i love to tell the story of the time (it has to be close to a decade ago, now) when he called from his office to see if it was raining at our house, because the Doppler said it was. my sister had picked up the phone in our dungeon basement that at that time doubled as our computer room, and the only source of outside light was through a small window that looked out into a grate on our driveway. when she responded that she couldn't tell, he asked if she'd mind going upstairs to check. i can't remember if sis complied or not, but remember thinking, didn't dad have anything better to do at work? then this week happened. we got a few inches of snow over the weekend. and a few more on tuesday night (which i took a walk in and it was the prettiest sight i've seen in a whil...