Boss said "Go home", I said "Okay". The drive was not as exciting as it could've been, luckily, although 29 northbound could use another pass with a plow. So now I'm home, about to take a hot shower and put on flannel PJs, then log back in to work for a while. I'd enjoy the snow a lot more if 1) I didn't have Restaurant Week dinner reservations ( Read more... )

The French Toast Alert System status for tomorrow: Elevated

Elevated: Moderate, plowable snow predicted. Harvey Leonard openly smiles during report. Empty your trunk to make room for milk, eggs and bread. Clear space in refrigerator and head to store for an extra gallon of milk, a spare dozen eggs and a new loaf of bread.

Thursday
Snow likely ( Read more... )

Looking out the front door of the office. Had no idea it was supposed to snow at all today. It's coming down pretty hard, but alas, I'm sure there's no snow day coming out of it.


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Today's commute: two and a half hours. Mostly the roads were just wet but the traffic volume was insane. Coming back south from Sterling though, it was getting kind of nasty; I did all kinds of sliding around on the side roads, even though I was being extremely cautious, and there was a bit of slush on 28 already. At least now I know what it ( Read more... )

Yesterday at 1:45 PM: 81 degrees
Yesterday at 5:45 PM: 48 degrees
Right now: Snowing. Hard. Parking lot getting slushy.

WTF?

By "1/4 inch of freezing rain by Sunday evening", they apparently meant "3 inches of heavy, wet snow by 11 AM". I think I prefer the latter at the moment, especially since I had to go out to Petsmart this morning to get some Maroxy to treat Max (of course the medication I discover last night that I specifically need is the only one I didn't ( Read more... )

Snow day! Yay! *kermit arms* (Technically it should be "Five inches of sleet day! Yay!", but close enough for horseshoes ( Read more... )

Where's my snow day, damnit ( Read more... )

Hey localfolks? I washed the road salt off my car last night, so that stuff falling from the sky today? My fault. Sorry.

In a weird coincidence, I was just thinking last night on my way to the mailbox that I should run a CD swap with a "soundtrack of your life" theme. I check in at audiography today, and they beat me to the theme. May still do it, of ( Read more... )

I believe the final measurement was 11 or 12 inches. I know to my friends from up north, this is nothing. This is Virginia though, so this is a major snowfall. These first two pictures were taken at 6:45 AM, which is why they're so dark (and my hand was apparently a little unsteady, so they're a bit blurry too). It apparently snowed for several ( Read more... )