That's like an eternity from now, which is pretty much throwing a wet blanket on our love for non-forceable OTA updates.

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Like a wet blanket swollen with water, the climate can only absorb so much excess heat before global temperatures begin to rise.

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But the company managed to throw a wet blanket on the proceedings, warning of increased caution among customers and showing inventories that are up 9% from the previous quarter.

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That's what employers mean when they say that uncertainty generated by Washington is a big wet blanket on our economy.

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In it she plays Alex Meyers, a recently divorced lawyer whose wet-blanket approach to life is challenged by her active, surfer carpenter, Pete Riggins (played by David Walton).

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