[…] it wasn't a hard winter. Only a couple of blizzards and snirt and snuss storms.

The bus was oppressively warm and the air-conditioning was fighting a losing battle with the heat.

There's a daughter too, Stephanie. A spoiled little dotcommer.

The subjects of paleoichnology are trace fossils (also called ichnofossils), which are fossilized structures produced in substrates ranging from unlithified sediment to sedimentary rock or organic matter (including shell, bone, wood and peat) by the activity of organisms.