The new year is beginning on a bright note, for sure.

Through a series of almost hilarious bobbles on the part of paypal admins, I started out $200 down. Then, in trying to rectify that, a paypal admin took ANOTHER $200 from my bank account.

Today, I finally found someone who actually understands what happened and just gave me back half the money and is re-initiating the process to get the other back.

Go team competence.

Also, the pet care company had a great holiday season wherein not one single emergency occurred. The owner is so pleased with the policies I've initiated that she is totally on board with further changes I want to put in place. It can only get better!

They'll stop most traffic after 1-2 inches. We're really not equipped for snow. They had to bring tanks last year to evacuate people. I kept hoping that somewhere, some TV network is broadcasting this, telling the world that there's a putsch.

After my rant above, I realized was probably exhausted me most today, along with the pain, was the fact that the people sitting next to me in the sorta-open-cubicle space wouldn't shut up all day (and talked louder than ever). It sounded as if they're having an 8 hour long coffee break, not as if they're in a workplace. There's one woman who is reading every text message she gets out load, and I did not choke her. Yet.

Oh, bonny. Sorry about the PayPal thing.

They'll stop most traffic after 1-2 inches. We're really not equipped for snow.

I wasn't trying to dismiss the reaction to the snow; I just meant that 6-10 inches of snow would shut down a lot of cities that *are* used to getting snow. That's a lot to get all at one time.

There's one woman who is reading every text message she gets out load, and I did not choke her. Yet.

I think that's a choke-worthy offense. (I would do it.) Go for it.

.pop. I agree with Steph .paf.

That's a lot to get all at one time.

It is, I agree. It's just that they've planned this reaction before they knew how much snow we'll get. Last year nobody had a gorram shovel (because it's the Middle East and the worst it gets is, I don't know, 5 inches if really bad? And only once in a decade?).

Only Jerusalem had over 20 inches of snow that year. People were trapped in their homes for days.

.pop.

I can't even picture it snowing in Jerusalem. Which is weird because it's supposed to snow on Christmas or something. But I live in Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. And it's like 50 degrees out right now.

.paf.

in other news... hard cider is delicious

Yay hard cider.

No need to picture things when there are pictures: [link]

(And again. We're supposed to get 2-3 inches of snow every 5-10 years. The 20 inches last year? The 6 predicted on Wednesday? Not in the user agreement to the Middle East).

And now I'm thinking of getting a shovel, even though I planned getting enough food so I won't have to get out.

wow! Snowy Jerusalem is beautiful!

We're supposed to get 2-3 inches of snow every 5-10 years.

Sounds a lot like the Southern U.S., where I've seen people freak out over snow that melted as it hit the ground -- no accumulation. 6-10 inches shuts things down for several days. But even in the Northern U.S., a lot of places will shut down for a day over 6-10 inches of snow.

oh yeah 6-10 inches is a lot anywhere. Maybe not Alaska.