I guess it's time to stop playing solitaire and check in already ( Read more... )

...or, well, actually, the weather is pretty much gone now, and you are sufficiently beautiful. We're down to a pretty normal blustery spring day right here, and as far as I can tell (since I slept right through the worst of it), it never did get any worse in my neck of the woods than last Friday's thunderstorm. I came through completely ( Read more... )

Results of a brief storm something over half an hour ago. I note with amusement that the sun was shining while it was raining and hailing. Weather is seriously weird sometimes!

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Found a voicemail from my supervisor when I got up; the lab is closed today. Huzzah! Back to bed now! No, wait, I'm too awake now to go back to sleep...dammit...

[ChantillyCentrevilleVAFreecycle] OFFER: Snow
About 150 cubic feet, in new condition. Let me know when you can pick it up - I'll leave it on my sidewalk.

No, that wasn't me; I was too busy shovelling mine. Besides, our cubic footage of sidewalk snow is much larger!

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Last night's snow was pretty this morning: ( Read more... )

Snow 12/19/2009; view from my front door. SNOWPOCALYPSE not yet reached. I didn't put on outerwear or footgear to go far enough for a reliable measurement, but I'm guessing this is somewhere around six or eight inches.

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( BLIZZARD warning?!? )

Wow; when I ended up deciding not to go to today's event due to too much accumulated lack of sleep, I thought I was glad because it was supposed to be 90 degrees today... But since they'll be getting this storm in another hour or so, I am even more glad I didn't go! No matter how much I adore storms, I want to enjoy them from inside a sturdy ( Read more... )