That's absurd.

Yeah, pretty much. The Big Boss is coming over this afternoon to talk to me about it, but I don't much care. I don't care how bad you feel, dude: just get this shit resolved.

My one great fear is that someone will tell IT to shut down my email address, and when I come back I won't be able to get any of my thousands of emails back.

I spend way too much time on NOAA.gov.

God, I love this place. Some people do the Weather Channel, we say "fuck that, I want raw data ".

That's such a mess, Consuela. I hope you do enjoy the time, at least.

Oh, Consuela, that just sucks. Do something fun.

I am so glad we had a snow day. By the time I got home yesterday (early...at 11:45am), I felt pukey. I ended up sleeping about 16 hours between yesterday afternoon and this morning. I feel a TON better now. Go, Snowpocalypse!

Any reports on how much snow fell?

They're saying 20.2 inches at O'Hare and 20.9 at Midway.

A friend of mine in the western burbs has 4 ft snow drifts up against her doors. The only door she could open to let her dog out this morning was the one in her garage. And she said she'd been trying to shovel up 'til about midnight last night.

I can hear a neighbor trying to get his car out - struggling car. Not too many cars on the road today.

More details on the Wonder Woman show. It sounds completely appalling.

I went into Owen's classroom like I do every week to volunteer. There was a substitute teacher. I sat down quietly with the kids while she was reading a book to them. She stopped when I came in and looked at me. Then she said, "You must be..." Owen finished by saying, "She's my mom." But then she said, "Supporting a team?" I realized she was referring to my hair. "Nope. My hair's always purple." She just sort of nodded and finished reading the story.

HAHAHAHAH! Cash, that's hysterical!

The classroom aid got a kick out of when I told her later.