Friends of mine in Colebrook NH (just down the road from Quebec) point out that you can tell how "North" a place is by whether it has Snow Days at all. Once you get far enough into the snow belt, you would have to shut down all winter, after all.

They say that in the 15-odd years of having children in school up there, they had only one winter-weather-closure, and that was because a maintenance guy made a mistake in what kind of diesel to put into the school buses, and the fuel gelled up so they couldn't start on a -20F day.

I would like some snow. Although, I'm just as glad last night we only got rain and not slush and yuck. I hope my parents' plumber can still work, though!

Schools get closed often enough around her for weather. (They fear the liability of a school bus accident on a stormy day more than anything.) but my employer are the last to tell their employees to stay home because of weather because they are extremely cheap. If they tell us to stay home, they have to pay us. If the don't tell us to stay home, anyone who doesn't make it in has to use a vacation day to cover the time lost. Total grinches.

ok snow bound people, don't forget the pretty pictures!

Snow passed us too!

Also, I hab a code! I am thinking about going home from work because I feel like warmed over ass with a drippy nose.

With any luck it will be light and fluffy and not hard to shovel off....

For wet, sticky snow, it's not that bad. Even the plow castoff wasn't too bad.

Of course, that's just round one, but I feel like I made a dent (and it does seem to be coming down a little less dramatically), and I did clear away the layer that fell on top of the rain, which should be a help. I highly recommend shovelling in shifts. You probably end up spending more total time shovelling, but the final clear is nowhere near as arduous, and you've already blazed a trail (there's nothing worse then stepping out into a half foot to foot or more of unbroken snow with your shovel and having to get it all out of the way). Plus less chance of doing something to your back.

work has been nonstop since I got in at 8:45. Turns out that running around does NOT make my head feel better. Shocking, I know. At least it seems that half my head has cleared up, so it is only one side of throbbing and closed up ear.

I am traveling on business. Oooh.

I am logged into the guest network at the company.

I have a meeting at 10.

I have...not much else to do.

I'm trying to export from a database with a bug that makes it report an error every time it encounters a "special character." The only way around it at the moment is to hit "ignore" every time the error pops up.

I'm exporting over 13,000 records. I think I need a drinky bird setup a la Homer Simpson.

Monday hates me.

Went out to start the car. Wouldn't turn over. Fretted, fussed, fretted. Called boss to let him know. Called mechanic. Tried again, got it started. Dropped off at mechanic. Walked to work in the rain.

Check engine light came on late last week, so I was going to schedule to bring it in anyway, but jeez. Not this morning (mondays are bad at the mechanic's.)

There's a very good chance I will have to cab it home tonight and in tomorrow. Bye bye $40.

Snarl.