Well bless. Storm in Denver has shut down restuarants, multiple MAIN roads, the airport, and, oh, where am I...not home. My flight tonight has been cancelled. First available flight is 6am tomorrow for an exorbitant cost and my travel agent doesn't think it is going to fly anyway. Next available is mid-day Friday. In trying to extend my rental car, Budget is saying I never picked up my car. Thankfully the travel agent is going to fight that battle for me.

Meanwhile at home there is over 2 feet of new snow in my backyard. I've been getting estimates on replacing my back fence. It is only 4' tall and is in rough shape. Apparently this snow may take the fence down with it. So I really need to get moving on getting that replaced.

Thankfully I packed one extra change of clothes and there is a washer/dryer at the hotel. Why can't I get stuck somewhere fun?

Why can't I get stuck somewhere fun?

Utah would be more fun if it could.

I have to much work to do to find much fun anyway. But Taylorsville/Murray are kinda underwhelming. I liked it better when our office was downtown.

Two of my co-workers are Trump fans and keep having non quiet conversations about the election. They apparently are making comments about the local coffee shop, whose owner is a Muslim immigrant and whose wife wears the hijab. (Google, why is hijab not in my dictionary?)

I work in a very diverse organization, with numerous immigrants from many different places, and I cannot believe these two guys.

So far as I can tell, they haven't violated the Hatch Act. Yet.

But Taylorsville/Murray are kinda underwhelming

Eesh. Yeah, that's a very sad place to be. Are you anywhere close to Trax?

Is the Zuckerberg conducting social experiments on me again? Lately, I feel like fb has been super flaky for me, when other websites (including the always reliable b.org) have not been. I keep blaming a shoddy internet connection and then discovering that the internet is just fine, it's just fb that's fucking with me.

Are you anywhere close to Trax?

Not sure, I do have a rental car.

Liese, I haven't been on FB much today, other than whining my plight. But it worked for me?

I am so done with today. I wanna bail on work and maybe go find a movie.

Yikes, Suzi! I hope you get home soon.

Totally different yikes, Consuela!

I had fun in Utah last week.

So I'm going to a funeral this afternoon that I just realized is a Jewish ceremony. Anything I need to know? That sounds like a stupid question, but I like being prepared rather than surprised.

I think everyone else covered it, but, it will definitely be closed-casket. Possibly the body will be wrapped in linen rather than being in a casket, but not many people in the US do it that way anymore. Don't bring flowers. The family might be wearing little black ribbons pinned to their clothes, that are torn -- the actual custom is to tear your clothing, but people now usually just pin on a ribbon and tear the ribbon, since they don't want to actually ruin their clothes. If you go to the cemetery, then they'll probably have each person put a shovel-ful of dirt on top of the casket, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to -- just don't walk up when the people are doing it. If you go back to the person's house afterward, they might be sitting on a weird short chair -- mourners are supposed to sit lower than usual. And if someone at the house asks if you're Jewish, don't be offended -- there are certain prayers that are said at the house, but they can only be said if there are ten Jewish adults there, and with funerals, there are usually a lot of visitors and the person who's trying to get the prayers organized doesn't know who's Jewish and who isn't, so they'll ask.