Welcome, masses, one and all! It's another round of Scattershooting, where I go here and there with one thought after another. While many of you are either pondering spring plans or getting a shovel out and digging through the snow, Ol' Case will spend his opening subject trying to figure out the National Weather Service.

Or attempting a game of chess....

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For better or worse (and, for now, we'll choose the latter), Punxsutawney...

Thank you so much. I’ll let him know now because he’s just feeling so defeated with this whole damn process I just want to tell him there’s hope.