Yes, just a few days after the last major snow storm, we get whacked but good with a bigger one. I was out shoveling about 2PM, but it’s still coming down pretty good.

Liliana and I went out for milk and the newspaper, but we did it the old fashioned way, on a vintage Radio Flyer sled.

My kids keep on telling me that they heard the sleds with the metal runners are illegal. I think they might not sell them anymore, but my guess is that we’re not going to be pulled over by a cop.

So far, it looks like about 6 to 8 inches outside the DynamoBuzz mansion in scenic central New Jersey. Not too cold and windy yet but I hear it’s coming.

Over a year into his adminstration, 0bama is still blaming all his problems on the last president. Even 0bama supporters are not buying it anymore, since the one year statute of limitations is now up. You own it now, 0bama.

Newly inaugurated NJ governor Chris Christie has been charging right out of the box at attacking the problems left to him by former governor Jon Corzine. Christie will get more state worker reforms accomplished in 45 days than Corzine did in 4 years. Next up in Christie’s sights: COAH.

But there’s one rotting piece of garbage that Christie found on his desk that will be a lot harder to take care of. And that’s the disaster in the Meadowlands, the still unopened Xanadu shopping mall. A multi-billion dollar white orange and purple elephant.

The Wall Street Journal has the latest in Dreams of Retail ‘Xanadu’ Meet Harsh Reality. The article claims the thing is 70% leased, but most of the leases have an escape clause in case of failure on the part of owners to meet certain conditions. Like being able to open up the mall for business. And that 70% figure includes Cabela’s sporting goods, and they’ve said they doubt they’ll ever be opening up for business.

Since the state owns the land, the article suggests a nuclear option, and that is for the state to seize the building in a sort of emminent domain taking. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

In the meantime, the Xanadu developers are looking for someone else to lend them a half billion to finish it. Good luck.

Looking at the news, seems like I came out of the storm OK. The DynamoBuzz mansion is in beautiful central New Jersey, about a half mile off route 22 and not too far from Bridgewater. It didn’t start snowing until about 11:30 PM last night, and it looks like we got 4 to 6 inches. I just finished shoveling (with a little help from Liliana) and it was nothing really. A very dry light snow, good for skiing but lousy for snowball fights, snowmen and igloos. But the winter isn’t over. Maybe the next storm will be better.