Hold your next company meeting in Boston in February: Think of all the work you'll get done because you can't go outside

but we can always talk about that at one of their traditional "where are all the young fans?" panels.

It has a certain frivolity to it, Jimmy Tingle is hardly Alistair Cooke, but how is this a joke? I mean it's not a total farce or something, they actually do want people to bring their business meetings and conferences to Boston. Addressing the weather issue is a little odd, but the only (in theory) funny part is Tingle's joke about his wife taking his space - the rest of them seem pretty earnest about it. If there is a tongue in the cheek here I'm not picking it up. And no doubt what Regan Communications Group got paid to produce it is no joke.

Whether or not any given airline would risk flying planes into it was a daily crapshoot.

I missed two meetings down in the Carolinas because of cancelled flights. Fortunately, my son's February Vacation school trip got out and back, and my escape from Hoth was uneventful as well. Both of those trips straddled major storms by sheer luck, and those left behind struggled with the loss of 1/4 of our collective snow removal power.