I did have a laptop once a few years ago for when I took over doing the early-morning load from a coworker when she was on maternity leave, but then I just stored it in my desk afterwards because I'm so close to work that I come in all the time. Last month, both my boss's and that co-worker's laptops went kerblewy, so one of them got my laptop until theirs was replaced, and I still haven't gotten mine back. Good thing about that was that mine did get upgraded, finally, which was one of the reasons I kept it in the drawer. So, if I did have my laptop here, I could work from home, but since they have it at the city office, no can do!

I don't mind using a PTO day to just putz around the apartment, anyway.

I remember that winter. I was living in Baltimore

So were we! It was our first winter there.

And yeah, Baltimore just doesn't have the infrastructure to deal with three feet of snow

Nope, still don't. Granted, Philly still hasn't plowed our street (or any of the side roads) and we're on a bus line. Wacky, in a cheap-ass sort of way.

Amyth, I'm so sorry for your loss.

Dark chocolate peanut M&Ms--snack of the gods.

Oh, that '95-'96 winter was epic. We were in NJ then, and I was home a LOT with a very bored four-year-old Jake.

Oh, Word. Why won't you let me add a header and a page number to a new document the way you used to? Argh. Stop changing everything all the time, people! This old dog has a hard time with new tricks.

((amyth))

Connie -have you had the pretzel centered M&Ms?

Also, the wind is already picking up here.

95-96 was a very snowy year in DC. (It was my senior year of high school, so my last winter at home, and turned out to be surprisingly good preparation for going to college in Evanston.)

[eta: And according to Google, this is the snowiest January on record in NYC. 55", besting the previous record high of 28. Yowza!]

[eta2: Previous record for Snowiest Month EVAR was 37" last February.]

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The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard watch for the Chicago area, warning that a storm swooping in from the South could dump more than 18 inches of snow and pack winds up to 40 mph.

The weather service said the storm, expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon over much of northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana, could be "dangerous, multifaceted and potentially life-threatening."

I've got 14 hour days all week, starting Tuesday. I hope they keep the trains running.

Interrupting the snow talk to say that msbelle is the AWESOMEST, as well as the nicest!

I hope they keep the trains running.

Good luck. CTA trains seem to have a more difficult time in heavy snow than Metra trains do. During the last big storm we had (1999?) I took a CTA train to O'Hare. The train operator had to stop a few times and kick off frozen slush from the parts of the train that contact the third rail.

I remember one ice storm we had in the winter of 88-89, when my sister and I were living in River Forest and were taking the Green Line downtown to our jobs. So many people decided the El was a great option when the ice coated the Eisenhower that the trains were packed to the brim, even though the trains were having a really hard time with the ice on the tracks.