Oh Connie, stay safe.
We got about a foot or so of snow overnight and it is still falling. Kelly and C got to work, not sure what adventures they had on their way. CJ got part way to work only to get a call to go home. He said he almost got stuck once and got moving just as a police car was ready to give him a bump/push. Then he helped a couple of people whose cars were stuck in their driveways. Such a good kid. Now he is home, building a fire in our newly cleaned fireplace. I may need to go work downstairs to enjoy the flames.
Separately I have come to theorize that most, if not all, firemen (or aspiring firemen) are pyromaniacs.
I decided this cold to not even try with cold drugs (aside from a toddy before bed). They provide false hope and never make any difference anyway.
That really sucks that you feel like you have to be there when it's not safe, Connie. Our call center in Denver is closed due to weather but last night they set everyone up with what they needed to work at home today.
Also, my company is hiring full stack an backend engineers, and SEiT positions. Offices are in SF, DC, and Chicago. If anybody knows anyone who'd be interested, let me know!! There's a sweet referral bonus.
Looks like we might all be told to stay home/work from home tomorrow. I don't have much on my desk right now, so if I take care of all the paper paperwork, I could do online stuff easily tomorrow. YAY. Of course if the freezing rain/snow does not come through as predicted, we will have a giant scramble in the morning as people call in orders.
What's annoying is that the roads were quite acceptable so long as you drove slow. It's just when you get to the slope right below the building that it gets impossible. The downside of the incredible view I gush over, getting up to that view. I look at pictures of houses with steep, short driveways in snow country, and I wonder how they survive.
Ugh, Connie. That's ridiculous that you are all at work in those conditions and clearly all sharing germs because not doing so would lose you a bonus.
I look at pictures of houses with steep, short driveways in snow country, and I wonder how they survive.
Traditionally you stop driving and ski everywhere, right? If that's not true, please don't disabuse me of my romantic notions.
I am lisah's polar opposite wrt cold drugs. I usually forget they exist and when I do actually try them I am amazed at how effective they are (at treating the symptoms, anyway, not actually making the cold go away, but that still amazes me!)
I have come to theorize that most, if not all, firemen (or aspiring firemen) are pyromaniacs.
Sounds right.
I have come to theorize that most, if not all, firemen (or aspiring firemen) are pyromaniacs.
Hubby said every fireperson he knew had an unhealthy love of fire. He said forest fires would talk to him. The firecrews all agreed that you shouldn't listen to what the fire was telling you, because it wanted to eat you. It gets very primal in the mind of a fireman.
My main cold symptom is a bad cough that lasts forever and nothing helps that, ime.
Oh, yeah, that one I just endure.
