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schools closed, boys home….except CBtE has exams today, and his school isn’t closed, there’s just no transportation. ANd Finn has a doctor’s visit this morning too.
And I have work stuff to do today to be able to meet deadlines for Monday.
Big fun. More shoveling ahead.
What are you all up to?
No snow day for us, we just got enough to renew the “clean” appearance to the drab old winter landscape. Hope your busy day goes as smoothly as possible since that extra slippery impediment is being thrown in.
What are you all up to?
Feeling very lucky that we’re not going loads of snow dumped on us like you and boran2.
b2 may not be checking in today. 90,000 Central Hudson power customers are without, may not have power ’til next week.
Ours has been off & on.
The landscape here is absolutely gorgeous. We’ve got about a foot of snos on the ground now; another 15 – 20″ are due before Friday night.
I am babysitting for neighbors who are away & so I’m takin’ a hike today. Images to come, I hope.
That’s snoes as in: “Oh, snoes!”
Looking forward to the pics. Have a fun trek!
Checking in! We’ve got NYSEG, with no failure yet. Emphasis on the word yet. 😉
Keeping my fingers crossed for you!!!!
Thanks RF! So far, so good.
Not a lot going on today. I am doubly glad I live where it is 36 now and suppose to be 61 later today. LOL Still waiting for the snowman picture of Finn. LOL
Refinish, everyone knows that one can’t properly appreciate 61 degrees unless one has experienced 12 degrees within the past 90 day period.
😉
I experienced 27 degrees with a wind chill of 20. Does that count? Trust me I have lived in cold weather before and do not miss it at all. I lived in PA and OR before for the winter season and never want to live where it really snows again.
I’ll see your 61 and raise you a 73 😉
🙁
I remember my years in Phoenix. The weather was okay but I hated the area. LOL
I hate Phoenix area, too, which is why I live in Tucson 😉
Tomorrow when the snow stops, for sure. I’m hoping this is our last snowstorm for a while…
Whatever you do, be safe, CG.
Here’s the Hudson River today, looking from the eastern side toward the western shore. It was almost whiteout at this point, earlier today. I had stopped at the scenic overpass to call work.
Great picture. I hope you were calling the office to say you were going back home. Stay safe!!!!
That’s it exactly!
Yay for those serendipitous snow days!
Okay, not complaining about the weather here anymore.
I had to spend part of the morning unproductively cloistered with the county commissioners in their version of the BCROD, whilst they waxed poetic on the State of the County. Arrrrrgh!
Sounds delightful…we’re waiting to see if we get the BIG SNOES we were promised.
Fie on BCROD, fie I say.
I don’t suppose anyone suggested that the county ought to go after some of that stimulus money to bring broadband to rural areas and get the whole county wired.
I just asked someone the other day where all the benefits were that were promised by the telecoms a couple of years ago in return for state deregulation. Actually, DSL is creeping slowly in your direction and has even become available at the beginning of your road. The woman you met recently at the county building has it.
It’s been available at the start of our road for about a year and 1/2 but I don’t think it’s budged any closer.
But besides the state deregulation, there’s also stimulus money and I would love to see the county go after it.
I’ll try to remember to ask the economic development lady to see if she has heard anything along those lines.
Right now, I’m having great difficulty with the county’s IT vendor. It took me 14 emails and a phone call just to get an SQL program disk inserted so my software vendor could begin testing our new server. Now he’s having a hard time gaining VPN access to the same. Ah, the efficiencies of the sacred private sector.
That would be great. Thanks.
You have to have the IT support to insert a CD? Ugh.
Actually I wound up doing it once they showed me which server to use. Its one of several in a floor to ceiling array of electronic stuff, about which I have no clue whatsoever.
I have a friend who is visiting India right now and reports that he has five-bar cell phone service and wi-fi everywhere he goes. Small village, major city, public park, relatives houses, restaurants. If I am inside of Target Verizon can’t find me.
Isn’t it nice to know that when “they” come looking for you based on tracking your cell phone signal, “they” won’t be able to find you if you’re shopping at Target. Maybe Target should advertise this feature of shopping there.
Isn’t India where we sent all our tech jobs? Seems reasonable that they should get the top-notch wireless service, then…
Are you back home now?
It’s been snowing on and off here all day, but no accumulation on the roads yet. We got to go to Finns appointment early because other people cancelled their appointments, so that was nice.
He weighs 12 lb, 7 oz already, and he’s 23.25 inches long; 75%ile for height and weight. So, he’s kind of on the big side.
Totally unrelated, we attempted to make homemade mozzarella this afternoon…apparently, we need more citric acid next time, since it was hard to stretch the curds. The whole time we were making it, I was thinking about poutine. :/
I go back to the office Monday, and I’m feeling nervous about it. I don’t want to leave Finn, and am afraid I might make mistakes on the job (sleep deprivation plus the responsibility for the account now that I’m coming back from maternity leave). I’m only going into the office for the mornings, and working from home in the afternoons, but I’m still worried about it. I’m already feeling pulled in different directions, and I’m afraid that I’ll just be doing a half-assed job of everything…ugh.
You’ll do fine. You don’t have to worry about Finn being at day care so that’ll be a load off of your mind even though you’ll miss him. And chances are they’ll understand if you’re a little scattered in the first couple of weeks back.
I know, I’m glad that daycare isn’t one of my worries. I just hope you’re right about the work thing.
Of course, a few more snow days with everyone home, and I might be thrilled to o to work for a few hours.
I’m home. I never made it past the river.
I’m sure that you’ll do fine at work. And you’ll only be away for half the day.
Are you off again today too? We didn’t get much snow, but we got the snow day anyway.
It’s still snowing here. By work some 25 inches fell, with more coming. Office and courts are closed. Woohoo! Snow day!
I think that you’re feeling bad because you’re something of a perfectionist. You’ll do fine at work, you just won’t be perfect at it — and employers should expect that anyway so it’s good for them that you aren’t. 🙂
I think that’s part of it. I keep worrying that I’m screwing, and yesterday i had so many problems with outlook and word not playing nicely together (???) that I felt totally incompetent, and then wound up with a typo in the subject line of an email to the client…proving my incompetence. :/
On a happier note, my neighbor is here plowing. He has been a total lifesaver this winter.
You’ll be fine. I am absolutely confident about that and mother hen always knows best.
Good on your neighbor. I’d like to acquire one of those.
Y’know, if you’re too good, they’ll just unmercifully heap more on you until you’re overwhelmed.
I saw the NBC story about poutine and thought of Olivia. LOL
Finn sounds like he will be a big boy and break all the girls or boys hearts. LOL
I am sure you will do great at work. I agree with everyone else that they expect you to be a little scattered the first few days and spend more time showing pictures than working. LOL
Today’s theme is Rails, Trails, and Roads. Olivia will be along later to post the diary.
Already commented and shared on Facebook. Love the photos this week. I think you should add the one up top in the comments.
Thanks RF. And Sniff thank you for think he’s so photogenic. 🙂
Good afternoon, everyone!
Just back in after negotiating 20 inches of snow in the city streets. Clean-up efforts have been reasonable, but still lots of slush and snow left. Took the bus down 5th Ave – Central Park looks like a winter wonder land and every hill is packed with kids off school with sleds and skis.
be careful!
That was the top item on our local news channel last night. I saw a couple of broken branches on my way to the bus stop and noticed a crew working on a tree a block further down. Chasing everyone out of the park, however, is overdoing it (your linked story).
Flight of fantasy~ the Ents finally begin to retaliate because of all the damage humans have caused their environment. </flight>
Okay. Other people can go to the park if they want but everybody I know in the northeast should stay far away from any snow-laden trees.
Well, we’ll only walk to the car and back today, okay? We’re kind of surrounded here, you know. 🙂
Car and back is fine. No walk under the tree limbs until more of the snow comes off.
Morning, just woke up (after a sleepless night).
I agree with that, but few of them look particularly overloaded. The bigger danger is the sidewalks. Huge heaps of snow on the curbside, mostly cleaned/navigable closer to the buildings – where icicles, or chunks of ice and wet, heavy snow come down from roofs and awnings. We had a couple of close calls – the park is preferable.
Sounds like staying in for a day or two would be a fine plan.
You got more snow than we did. Ours snowfall was about a foot.
I wanted to go to yoga this morning, but I’m moving too slowly. Think I’ll head over for the late afternoon free class they’re offering today instead. Can you believe it;s snowing here again?
The CBs are at their dad/s and Boo is asleep, so it’s just me and Mr. Finn and the coffee this morning. With all these snow days, I’d forgotten how nice and quiet the house can be.
I think I have a busy weekend ahead, just getting everything in order to head off to the office on Monday morning. Trying to plan a few meals ahead and make sure I have everything I need. I should really go drop my nice printer off for repair today too, so that my home office is put together properly…
against snoring at high volume after 9 am?
Tsunami Forecast for Hilo, Hawaii
NOAA estimates power of earthquake over Pacific.
Keres, check in. :/
They’re saying a tsunami hit NZ but I assume nothing big or we’d have heard.
I haven’t heard of any damage in NZ, and it would certainly make the news here.
Also, where there is lots of beach front development in Hawai’i (which appears to “have dodged the bullet” – from the latest news), there’s nowhere near as much in NZ.
They’ve just issued a tsunami “get out of the water” warning for the eastern coast of mainland, mostly because they are afraid of strong currents affecting swimmers and boaters. Tasmania is sheltered by NZ and probably won’t be affected at all.
Apparently NZ got some five foot waves in places. Which, from what I’ve seen of the NZ coast, would not impact on a lot of man-made structures.
Cable news channels seem disappointed it didn’t pan out in Hawaii. They were wetting themselves with excitement at possibly covering a tsunami live.
I was glad, not only for Hawai’i’s sake, but because I didn’t want aid to Chile to get hijacked by financial losses closer to home.
I was waiting for Rush Limbaugh to criticize aid to Hawaii by saying we should help people right here in the United States.
That was gross. The voyeuristic would-be horror show of it all, and the clear disappointment in the lack of a big dramatic story…