It's Still Snowing

9:00pm - This is the first time I'm actually posting twice in one day, and as I do so the neighborhood's power is flickering on and off under the weight of some very wet, very heavy snow.  Ours went off just long enough to knock out the TV, Internet, and all but one computer.  The power lines in front of our house are snow-covered and sagging about six feet lower than usual.  To spice things up even more, there's also a lively accompaniment of lightening and thunder.  And so it snows.


In the gap between the morning and late afternoon snow, there were enough brave souls at work to make it worthwhile to do our lab managers' lunch at Franklin's.  I'm pretty sure most if not all attendees came to work today specifically for that purpose.  I know I did.  With the University opening at 10am and closing at 3pm, it's doubtful that today was a very productive day (though I did get a lot of email read and started packing for the move next week).  There were 15 of us at lunch, mostly from OIT, but also four lab managers from Engineering and Geology.  I ordered a 'shroom burger and couple of Pilsneresque draft beers to go with it, and Eric took lots of pictures with his high-end Canon camera.  Hopefully, some of them actually came out OK, especially the group shots, which I prevailed upon everyone to put up with.  We were a photogenic group, but a bit on the introverted, camera-shy side.

The mid-afternoon ride back home was uneventful.  It was drizzling, but it had warmed up quite a bit since the early morning so the roads were only wet, not icy.  I put the trash cans back in the driveway (today was trash day) and poured myself a glass of lite eggnog that was past its expiration date.  It tasted fine, I'm still alive, and my stomach hasn't complained a bit.  After that, I finished watching "Carnival of Souls," began watching "I Saw What You Did Last Summer," and abandoned that film about halfway through to watch "Them" with Ev who was also let out early.   After that, I returned to watching "I Saw What You Did...," but it was interrupted yet again, this second time by the aforementioned power outage.  Pretty much movied-out, I decided to blog instead, and I'm just about done.  I would have finished a little earlier if the power hadn't gone out a second time in the middle of my typing the last sentence.


Will the University be opened tomorrow?  Stay tuned.


Wednesday, January 26, 2011