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Work was work. Nothing too weird from the work front... EXCEPT cookies!
As part of the holiday festivities, different departments of the lab bring in food. Yesterday was cookies. A co-worker made mice. I had never seen cookies like these before and I nearly died from the cute. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42545568@N05/4231479336/ It is a peanut butter cookie. Yes, I acted like an ass while eating these. Thanks. :)
Yesterday on the way home, the sunrise was very beautiful. I snagged a few pictures along the lake from a parking lot (and inside my car as it was super cold outside!) The sequence was very short, though. I got the dark red sky then the pink sky but the sun was up and all the colors disappeared.:S
Today was an adventure driving home... but I still took pictures. It was snowing and quite slick with about one to two inches of snow on the roads. Since the ONLY snowplow I saw (until I got to where the interstate is) was in the Rutter's parking lot (it's a gas station chain out here)! All the roads I travel to and from work are state roads so they aren't treated. ...If you can call what PennDOT does to the roads as "treating" them. No plowing. No salt/cinders. Nothing. Photographic proof (and the two shots of yesterday's sunrise: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42545568@N05/sets/72157622983055633/)
"No Love Letters"
ATTN: PA Legislature!
ign the table gaming (gambling) into effect so you can afford to send PennDOT for proper training in MN or ND! Jeez! (DOT = department of transportation, for the folks over seas. PennDOT = Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation.) Could we please have SOME semblance of salt/cinders on the roads? Or just dragging a plow across it?
Dear Other Drivers:
If you cannot drive more than 15 miles an hour while in only one inch of snow, please, do us all a favor by turning around - in a controlled manner, unlike what I saw today - and go the f home! Really! When did you get your license? Back before snow was invented? Even a 16-year-old-Driver's-Ed-student knows that you do NOT slam on your brakes in the snow! ESPECIALLY when you want to make a 90 degree turn. Also, you do NOT tailgate one another in such conditions because you will find the jackass who slams on his brakes and does a 360 firmly planted in the grill of your car. So stay home or DIAF. Or snowbank. The latter is more likely.
Bite me,
Rain
End "No Love Letters"
While I did have some traction issues, I didn't experience anything I couldn't handle. However, it surprised me how loud I laughed when I watched several cars swerving and spinning about trying to avoid one another at super SLOW speeds. (Oxymoron: slow speed) It was like watching hippos slipping about on extremely thick ice. Miraculously, no one hit anyone or anything (thank God the road is wide at that intersection!) I decided at that point, discretion is the better part of valor and went an alternate, less traveled route home. I do find it quite sad that these people couldn't drive in only this tiny amount of snow. God forbid any weather worse than this hits.
Guess that's it for now.
As part of the holiday festivities, different departments of the lab bring in food. Yesterday was cookies. A co-worker made mice. I had never seen cookies like these before and I nearly died from the cute. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42545568@N05/4231479336/ It is a peanut butter cookie. Yes, I acted like an ass while eating these. Thanks. :)
Yesterday on the way home, the sunrise was very beautiful. I snagged a few pictures along the lake from a parking lot (and inside my car as it was super cold outside!) The sequence was very short, though. I got the dark red sky then the pink sky but the sun was up and all the colors disappeared.:S
Today was an adventure driving home... but I still took pictures. It was snowing and quite slick with about one to two inches of snow on the roads. Since the ONLY snowplow I saw (until I got to where the interstate is) was in the Rutter's parking lot (it's a gas station chain out here)! All the roads I travel to and from work are state roads so they aren't treated. ...If you can call what PennDOT does to the roads as "treating" them. No plowing. No salt/cinders. Nothing. Photographic proof (and the two shots of yesterday's sunrise: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42545568@N05/sets/72157622983055633/)
"No Love Letters"
ATTN: PA Legislature!
ign the table gaming (gambling) into effect so you can afford to send PennDOT for proper training in MN or ND! Jeez! (DOT = department of transportation, for the folks over seas. PennDOT = Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation.) Could we please have SOME semblance of salt/cinders on the roads? Or just dragging a plow across it?
Dear Other Drivers:
If you cannot drive more than 15 miles an hour while in only one inch of snow, please, do us all a favor by turning around - in a controlled manner, unlike what I saw today - and go the f home! Really! When did you get your license? Back before snow was invented? Even a 16-year-old-Driver's-Ed-student knows that you do NOT slam on your brakes in the snow! ESPECIALLY when you want to make a 90 degree turn. Also, you do NOT tailgate one another in such conditions because you will find the jackass who slams on his brakes and does a 360 firmly planted in the grill of your car. So stay home or DIAF. Or snowbank. The latter is more likely.
Bite me,
Rain
End "No Love Letters"
While I did have some traction issues, I didn't experience anything I couldn't handle. However, it surprised me how loud I laughed when I watched several cars swerving and spinning about trying to avoid one another at super SLOW speeds. (Oxymoron: slow speed) It was like watching hippos slipping about on extremely thick ice. Miraculously, no one hit anyone or anything (thank God the road is wide at that intersection!) I decided at that point, discretion is the better part of valor and went an alternate, less traveled route home. I do find it quite sad that these people couldn't drive in only this tiny amount of snow. God forbid any weather worse than this hits.
Guess that's it for now.