why if we're paying "experts" they couldn't manage to get little things like grammar and punctuation right.

Maybe you should bill them for the time.....

I'm grading. And procrastinating. And listening to "Chess."

Oooo...I love "Chess"! I heard it wasn't a 'hit' on Broadway, but I saw it at a dinner theater in Boulder and loved it--especially the music.

I should bill them, yes. Except that I'm too busy being appalled that my grammar and punctuation skills are at the bottom of the food chain among the people I know--and these people are viewing me as an "expert." I fear for the future of the English language....

I *hate* snow. And justifiably. I did live in upstate NY for 12 years, so it's not a passing fancy, this snow hating of mine...

I don't mind snow. :) I'm not crazy about driving in it when there's a foot or so, of course.

But I know about and sympathize with your snow-hating. (It does seem unfair that you should go to all the trouble to go live in a desert and then you still get snowed on!)