DBT group therapy helped me and some other Buffistas, but 1) it's a specific structured format and 2) I am not Allyson, I suspect very much not Allyson, in that I like doing things in a group.

re: snow, we're very lucky to be getting the famous dry, powdery snow Utah is known for. It's kind of fun to be able to use a broom to clear three inches of snow and find a mostly dry surface underneath. Of course, when it's driven on, it becomes ice, so there's that.

Yeah, that's usually what we get, too, Connie, but since this was three days of rain turned into two days of snow, it was wet clumpy snow instead. And it was 14 this morning and won't get above freezing today, so the roads were unlikely to improve. Honestly, our neighborhood would have been the worst of it. All dirt roads out here, and the first paved highway won't get plowed at all in all likelihood.

The snow I was in last Friday was so glittery and light, it was like fake snow. The best kind!

that sounds like what we had last week, Liese. We just had all the ice ruts melt when this started. We call the pile of snow and slush and ice that forms in the street in front of our driveway the Khyber Pass. Hubby's SUV can get over it, but the Taurus has issues.

The snow I was in last Friday was so glittery and light,

The prettiest snow, especially pretty when blowing around with sunshine sparkling off it.

We recently went through a BIG rebranding effort. Like, huge. And our logos on one of our sites just switched back to the old company names.

FREAKOUT.

Because, of course, we upgraded the content management system this weekend, and clearly everything that goes wrong for the next week will be our fault.

The point of a content management system, for those not familiar, is pretty much an edit once/publish many structure. You have one golden source, versioned even, so you can roll back 7 years that compliance requires, and tell what version was extant at which very second. But you have to respect the system.

Apparently when we rebranded, someone went out and copied over the logos with the new company names, so when those items were "accidentally" republished from the gold source WHICH WAS NEVER UPDATED....we're back in 2012.

Jesus Christ. It's still my team that fucked up, and it's the guy who's home with the flu, but it's not my system. Our upgraded system remains pretty blameless.

And the incompetent developer did clean stuff up my way yesterday after all. I guess one by one deletion of 3010 items seemed...unappealling?

I am still on pins and needles waiting for the official press response to the Situation that came up yesterday, that is NOT MY FAULT even though I'm right in the middle of it. They keep adding language that has actual implications that make me freak out, and I'm kind of sick to my stomach and can't concentrate on my other work.

Good times.

I have been doing super annoying training class scheduling for our staff at the location I work at. Sent initial email with training times of a mandatory class, let me know your top two choices or if you will be out of town. yadda yadda. Most people follow those directions. The people who never respond get a second email - Reminder! This is happening, it is mandatory - these are the remaining time slots available.

Now today - THE DAY OF THE TRAINING, I am emailing people saying - I never heard from you, there are two classes remaining today, which one will you be attending?

The part worse that people just not even responding to emails, though is that about 1/4 of the people who were schedule emailed TODAY to change their time. There is a serious lack of respect for committments and other people's time in this company culture.

So, in the winter Port Townsend pretty much shuts down st 5. It's a very dark & rainy ghost town out there. However, I have discovered a cozy little wine bar and have a glass of zin, so things are looking up.

For evenings, I strongly recommend seeing something at The Rose.

PT does tend to close early in the winter. The co-op as you enter town's pretty good, though, if you need to grab a snack, and again, there's always The Rose.