I, er, sort of owe you a novel-reading anyway. (I have started it, and not only am I enjoying it, it feels much crisper than the far earlier piece I saw-- but I haven't been anywhere I could reliably plug my computer in & read for rather a while now.)

The math office here has stuffed toy snowmen, though. They probably think real snowmen are legendary. You should gloat in the exoticness of an Ohio winter.