I was starting to think winter wasn’t going to happen in New York this year, but we’re getting the first storm of the season today — it is DUMPING snow, forecasts for up to 3 feet in the city alone!

Time to get the snowboarding gear out, I think…

And since I don’t have health insurance at the moment, I finally bought a snowboarding helmet (alas, too late to avoid last year’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and resulting facial injuries).

This helmet is pretty cool though — it’s a R.E.D. Audio HiFi, and has built-in headphones for listening to tunes “on the lifts”!