Just saw reference to a housing development called Potemkin Village. I don't want to live there. It's in Georgia, it's low-income housing. Some developer is either very cynical or pretty clueless.

I'm still stuck on the mountain. I still can't get to work. A taxi will cost at least $30 one way. And then I have to walk bck up when I'm off.

I don't know anyone well enough nor does anyone live close enough for me to ask for a ride.

Mom is going stir crazy. She did walk down a fair way and get out.

The issue is ice. It got down to 20 last might and hasn't been sunny or super warm so the ice is still really firm and it's I don't know how much but imagine 4 car lengths of fairly solid ice in tire tracks and then down the middle is mostly frozen snow that goes over my bumper.

If I had gone to Matthew's I could have just driven back and forth.

I do have 2 days of PTO so I will only lose 3 days of pay. I hope if it gets credited right. I feel like I'm being irresponsible toward work but I don't want to spend a lot of money to get to a job that pays $9/hr.

So I'm stuck and frustrated.

If they need you that bad they can send transportation, askye. It is such a mess there I am confident they understand.

I've done much of my online shopping today. Bobby & Tate always want to do things with us and her parents so I purchased a 6 person escape room thing for us to do together. That should be fun. We have a choice of a couple vaults, but this one I think is best. "Death and Breakfast: When a thunderstorm puts a damper on your road trip, you and your friends check into a bed and breakfast to wait it out. The caveat: your room is a tchotchke-free dungeon and the owner is a cannibal, and you have 60 minutes to escape before you're on the menu." The other choice is a prison escape: "Prison Redemption: You and your crew have been sentenced to 50 years in prison for multiple bank robberies you didn't commit. You have 60 minutes to escape your holding cell and figure out where the next bank robbery will occur; if you don't succeed, you'll be sent to your forever home: the state penitentiary."

All 6 of us are very different personalities and would approach things differently so I think it will be fun.

That sounds awful, askye.

An old coworker was always trying to get us to do an escape room and it never happened, and I don't think I have a group now who would be into it! I think it sounds fun, too.

I'm dying to do an escape room thing with people. I may have watched too many Nickelodeon game shows as a kid.

There was a Groupon for a place here in Boca Raton. $112 for 6 people, so a good deal I thought. Regularly $199, I think. I'm excited about trying it. Trying to do more action things like mini golf and bowling, or whatever, rather than eating out.

They like concerts, but not movies or plays so much. So I go to shows with DH. We have The Wiz Saturday night in Fort Lauderdale, then next Wednesday Gypsy at the local community theater. Theater isn't very expensive here. Usually can get BOGO in Lauderdale and tickets to shows here in my neighborhood are generally about $30.

I'm dying to do an escape room thing with people. I may have watched too many Nickelodeon game shows as a kid.

We should totally do one!!

I did an Escape the Room thing a couple of years ago with my coworkers. It was a lot of fun. We won/escaped with seconds to spare.

We just finished the programming for a new escape room here in Anaheim.

Here's the trailer for it [link]

I would do an Escape Room with you, Dana!

The tater tots were a lie. I have a sad.