polar vortex, day 1
This morning on my way out of the house I said to myself, "self, given how cold it is outside (-9F, predicted high 1F), if you let the regular programming on the thermostat stand, the house'll never warm up enough this evening when you'll care". So I overrode it.
That turned out to be prescient. The astute will notice that I am posting to LJ during the work day but LJ is blocked at work. No I'm not using my phone to do this.
I missed the "the office is closed" robo-call by approximately 1 minute, it seems. No heat, and soon no water. (I assume because water-filled pipes in an unheated building during a cold snap are a hazard, but I didn't ask.) I wonder how many days it will take them to get that repaired; our landlord is not very attentive to building maintenance even in the best of times, and I imagine that furnace-repair people are hard to come by right now.
I stayed long enough for my manager (in a more-westerly timezone) to get in so I could ask for clarification on relevant work-from-home policies. Most people have laptops and took them home last night just in case. I don't, and we're not allowed to access the corporate network with personal machines (even via an approved VPN client), except for some hacky system that requires IE and so doesn't work on my Mac, and I really didn't feel like carrying a tower, at least one monitor, and other peripherals home. We found a way for me to not have to take mandatory PTO today, so yay.
The house has warmed up one degree since I left this morning. But I have warm clothes, tea, and if I'm lucky, a cat on my feet.
That turned out to be prescient. The astute will notice that I am posting to LJ during the work day but LJ is blocked at work. No I'm not using my phone to do this.
I missed the "the office is closed" robo-call by approximately 1 minute, it seems. No heat, and soon no water. (I assume because water-filled pipes in an unheated building during a cold snap are a hazard, but I didn't ask.) I wonder how many days it will take them to get that repaired; our landlord is not very attentive to building maintenance even in the best of times, and I imagine that furnace-repair people are hard to come by right now.
I stayed long enough for my manager (in a more-westerly timezone) to get in so I could ask for clarification on relevant work-from-home policies. Most people have laptops and took them home last night just in case. I don't, and we're not allowed to access the corporate network with personal machines (even via an approved VPN client), except for some hacky system that requires IE and so doesn't work on my Mac, and I really didn't feel like carrying a tower, at least one monitor, and other peripherals home. We found a way for me to not have to take mandatory PTO today, so yay.
The house has warmed up one degree since I left this morning. But I have warm clothes, tea, and if I'm lucky, a cat on my feet.