I awoke this morning to find the world glistening in white. For the second time this season, we got a significant amount of snow – well, significant for Terre Haute. All told, we got about four inches of heavy snow and ice. The snow wasn’t bad, but scraping the layer of ice from my windshield took a quarter-hour. I predict that by tomorrow evening, all trace of the snow will be gone. Cold is fleeting in central Indiana.

Last week I experienced the legendary inefficiency of the Postal Service: I bought an economics book on eBay at the end of February. On February 25, the seller shipped the book via media mail. I received the book on March 18. Yes, it took three weeks to get here from Louisiana. Worse, the book spent over two weeks at a processing center in Tennessee. Utterly remarkable.