Snow Drift Among Snow Drifts | Snowfall with Musical Drift for Focus & Sleep

Snow and perceptual drift is this week’s show. This episode includes the heaviest moments of precipitation (for us, early in the morning 1/25), which dumped white stuff all over my backyard and 56.1% of the contiguous United States. We wound up with about 10 inches.

As I write this, I have just finished cursing about the school cancelling our last chance to push the kids out the door this week. It has been freezing and there’s snow everywhere — so I get it. However, the kids have been home starting fights and wanting Panera for lunch all week. I’m done.

And the constant melt and refreezing has left us gingerly moving about outside. I already slipped and fell off the back deck trying to wrestle with bins for trash pickup. I landed directly on my *** slid down a few steps and into hardened snow at the foot of the stairs. I looked around to see if anyone had witnessed.

It’s embarrassing falling in front of people — over the summer, I hit a soft shoulder with my bike, trying to put my feet down to stop myself going down a hill toward the banks of a pond. I flipped head over heels into a barrel roll in front of no fewer than four people.

And I’m getting to the age where people aren’t saying, “Look at that doofus.” Literal Boy Scouts have tried to rescue me — like, guys, you can’t help me, I fall off of **** a lot. I fell off a moving train once.

So getting to the mailbox over the icy sidewalks has been a challenge.

Does anyone else rap to themselves when they are concentrating? Not freestyle — that would be absurd. No, calling upon the great verses of hip hop. I recite Inspectah Deck’s “Movin’ on a ***** with the speed of a centipede…” while surreptitiously eating candy with my kids in the other room.

There are verses in my brain I call upon when I especially need to concentrate. As with icy conditions, I recall one of the slowest, most pedestrian lines in hip hop: Eazy-E’s verse on Foe tha Love of $. And no shade to Eazy-E — he was a legend… who had a few pedestrian lines (I’m using pedestrian again, as I don’t want in on any rap beefs).

Eazy-E slowly raps, “So I dash, I duck, and I hide behind a tree,” to hide from the police (while working as a street pharmacist). It’s pretty simple stuff.

Look, I’m an Eazy-E fan. I played Merry Mutha****** Xmas every December on my college radio Christmas show in central Vermont. When Daz rapped, “**** B.G. Knocc Out and every ****** down with him,” I knew who B.G. Knocc Out was — I had B.G. Knocc Out (and Dresta’s) cassette; the duo were featured heavily on Eazy-E’s Str8 off tha Streetz of ************ Compton. And that album has “Just Tah Let U Know,” my fave Eazy track.

BTW: lewd — lots of swears, Mom (don’t click any links).