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Yay Zoe!
As a Washingtonian who is NOT good with snow I have a question. Someone told me that with only four inches on a steep driveway you are better off not shoveling because you end up uncovering ice and giving your tires less traction. Good tip? Bad tip?
Hmm. Steep driveway, I'd go with shoveling and then sprinkling kitty litter.
Hooray for great Zoe news!
I'm so glad about Zoe!
I'm sure I'll be able to catch some holiday spirit as soon as the Cold That Will Not Leave is out of here. But at the moment the holiday happies are drowning in mucous.
I'm guessing new office is #2. What a great way to be reminded you made the right choice.Totally! My boss and I just read the old jobs xmas cheer blurb to Business ÜbberBoss, who also came from old job place, and he was FLOORED with the announcement. Very entertaining.
Someone told me that with only four inches on a steep driveway you are better off not shoveling because you end up uncovering ice and giving your tires less traction. Good tip? Bad tip?ooo Bad tip. Unless the snow is slated to melt right quick, and you are only making one or two trips across it. Every time you drive/walk on it, the snow will get compacted and thicken into ice. I say shovel and sand (or kitty litter). If you have any rock salt, that would be good too.
As a Washingtonian who is NOT good with snow I have a question. Someone told me that with only four inches on a steep driveway you are better off not shoveling because you end up uncovering ice and giving your tires less traction.
It depends on the snow. If it's that fluffy packable kind and no ice has formed underneath, you should be able to get down pretty safely. The problem is that getting back up the driveway is a whole different question. As Hil says, shoveling and something for traction makes that much more likely.
I will point out the thing that Georgia drivers do wrong in snow and ice: they forget that momentum can be your friend. They go very very slowly, and then when a tire hits a patch of ice, the car doesn't have enough momentum to go over it. Slowly is good. Very very slowly can get you.
One of the admin assistants to a professor just emailed asking if I could print off 30 copies of something in color because her color ink was running out.
Um, no?
Just had my annual review for my new job and they like me. They really like me. Lots of positive comments and challenging work for next year. They like my attitude and my ability to jump in and make things more efficient.
Now if only their affection would equal more cash. The company is tightening down on raises this year, so who knows what I will get raise-wise. I'm just happy to have a job I enjoy, working with good people who keep me challenged. (Though more money is ALWAYS welcome).
Ya know, a job with good people is worth a few quid/hr. I've found the higher the pay, the more stress there is, and knives find ways into backs.
meara, I have to ask - are people in Washington the state any better with snow that in Washington the city?
Um, no. Definitely not. Though admittedly, they have even fewer plows and more hills here, and get less snow. So there's a certain amount of sense to why they're worse, but...
And unless you're only making one trip over the driveway, no, don't NOT shovel it! You're going to drive over it, pack down the snow, and THAT will turn into ice. Unless the temps are forecast to melt it darn quick and NOT go back down to freezing. Shovel it, and salt it, unless you're really super good about scraping all the way down to the surface.
I was walking up the hills yesterday and annoyed because (a) only a few people had shoveled the sidewalks, and (b) those who had, only like, two knew how. Most people had vaguely shoveled, and not gotten down to the ground, and it was worse than if they hadn't, because now it was a solid patch of ICE. Only a few people had scraped down and/or salted. Those people I blessed.
That skirt is lovely, Fay. Do you know what you'll be wearing it with? Would it be possible to find something backless to wear with it, so you could show off your peacock feather tattoo? Because that over the gold taffeta would be lux and delicious as hell.
Oooh - interesting thought! But, alas, at this time I don't own anything backless - I'd like to get something made, but it needs to be something that includes some kind of support structure for boobular containment purposes. Um. There being entirely too much boobosity for blythe abandonment of bras.
t /tmi
Aaanyway, I have now purchased shoooos which are both gloriously comfortable AND pretty, and they co-ordinate beautifully with the skirt. Indeed I am wearing both, with a simple black sweater and a long gold chain with a sort of filigree gold leaf pendant thing on the end of it - it looks for all the world like an actual leaf that's been dipped in metal, all fine mesh of veins. Like this. Hmm. Maybe it really IS a leaf! That would be nice.
t /sartorial trivia
Going to see Inkheart tomorrow with my parents! Hope they like it - I'm fairly sure I will. I liked the book lots, and I'm well disposed to Brendan Fraser.