Yesterday, I was talking about snow days and I forgot a key point, which is that snow days are much more fun for everybody else who gets time off for snow days.

I don’t get time off for snow days.

If anything, I get extra work for snow days because I also have to deal with the snow while also doing work.

So I’m a little jelly of everybody else on the snow days when it’s like, ooh, it’s a day off from school, a day off from work, and like home, hanging out, whereas I’m working.

Could I blow off my job since I employ myself?

Sure.

That’s a great way to also get clients to hate slash fire you.

So I don’t.

Anyway, it looks like we’re going to have another snow day tomorrow, which is frustrating because I mean, I’m excited for my kids.

I remember what it feels like as a kid to have a snow day, but we’re supposed to go see a show.

All five of us are supposed to go see a show, some live theater Friday evening, and I will be sad if snow precludes us from doing so.

We’re supposed to see a production of Ride the Cyclone that a friend of mine is starring in.

Anyway, let’s do a Your Daily Lex.

I guess we’ve already started, right?

Even if it’s before the theme song, it’s still Your Daily Lex.

It’s just not officially Your Daily Lex until we’ve all sung Your Daily Lex together.

Your Daily Lex.

Here’s a couple assorted random updates.

Liam beat me in a game of Stratego fair and square.

I was crushing him for a while, and then suddenly it became apparent to me that I was going to lose, and indeed I did lose.

He thinks it’s the first time he’s beaten me in Stratego with real rules.

He’s beaten me sometimes when we play with everybody places their pieces in random order.

Or when we do some of the rule variants, if you don’t know Stratego.

I was going to say a chess-like game, but that’s not really true, but it’s a strategic game, hence the name.

But yeah, he beat me fair and square, and it was wonderful and soul-crushing all at once.

So that’s one key life update.

Another is I have another misery rehearsal today.

I believe it’s more table work, where we’re sitting at a table and talking about why we do the things we do in the show, and this time it looks like the snow won’t start falling until afterwards.

The snow is supposed to start falling at 4 in the morning.

The school districts are unhappy, because they’re like, maybe we can do a shorter day where we start at the regular time, but then end early, but I don’t see any path to that actually happening.

If the snow starts falling at 4 and is accumulating by 6, I don’t see how they can do it.

So everyone will be home again, including me, but me, I’m always home.

That’s just how it goes.

I started watching the show The Bear, in part because it’s an Emmy Award winner, in part because people love it.

So far, I definitely like it.

I don’t know if I 100% understand what’s happening, because sometimes there’s a bear, and I don’t know what he’s doing there.

But I’m new to the show.

Don’t judge me if you already know all about the bear, and it’s bear-ness.

Yeah.

I swapped out my Apple Watch band today.

Some people do it all the time.

I’m looking at you, frequent co-host and collaborator John Moulds.

I know he changes his band a lot.

I find, even though it’s doable, I find it annoying, so I don’t do it constantly.

But I did switch recently from my Milanese loop, which I had gone back to for a long time, to a, I don’t know, a sport loop, I guess is what it is.

I like the Milanese loop.

I wore it in Elf, because it seemed like a businessman kind of watch band.

But every once in a while, it’s too much, and so now I’ve switched back over again.

So I’m sport looping it.

I’m sporting loop.

I think the grammatical term is sporting loop.

I’m sporting loop.

Man, that sounds like a great term for something.

I don’t know what, but sporting loop should catch on.

Hey guys, you’re really sporting loop today.

Thank you.

You too, bud.

I think that’s how it would go.

It’s just before 4 p.m.

Eastern as I record this episode, and I am really struggling with the debate over third cup of coffee or not.

I don’t need it.

I can get through the day without it, but I’m just, you know, I could also use that pep.

Would it keep me from sleeping?

I don’t really think so.

Plus, I can sleep in tomorrow.

So I think I am going to do it.

So I’m going to finish recording this episode.

I’m going to make that third cup.

I’m going to drink it during my 4 p.m.

meeting.

It’s going to be great.

I have that rehearsal.

I have a drive home that probably won’t be in snow, but still can have a little bit of ice.

So yeah, I like, I like the maximum alertness for me.

Don’t you?

Of course you do.

Uh, anyway, as you, uh, no doubt recall, we’re going through the new Liam and Lex album.

The world wasn’t ready, uh, yesterday we heard it’s the weekend, uh, a song I really liked because we recorded that one very early in the process.

And I appreciate how, um, much, uh, younger sounding his voice is on that one.

This next song, Liam said to me, I want to write a song in seven, eight.

If you’re not a music, a nerd, you might not know what that means, but it’s the, you know, the time signature of seven, eight, seven beats per measure.

Uh, Liam explains how seven, eight works in the song, because the only way I knew to write a song that could be in seven, eight was to make it being about the song being seven, eight.

We write more songs about the songs themselves than most people do.

That’s just how it goes.

Anyway.

Here’s a clip from seven, eight, probably the weirdest song on this album.

Enjoy the rest of your Thursday.

Seven, eight is great.

How could you hate?

Lex.