It's BACK!

I've decided that it's about time to bring back the End of the Work Week Wisdom. It's been a while, so if you want to check out some of the old ones, click on the "end of the work week wisdom" tag at the end of this post. :) Go ahead, this one will still be here when you get back. :)

And without further ado:

"There's snow, and then ice, and then more snow. It's like an Oreo. A crappy, cold Oreo."
--My description of the state of things in Seattle right now

The good news is that the snow (and ice, and more snow) seem to be melting at present. Let's just hope that it melts at a rate that the drains can handle...

Image from KG Crafts

Things and stuff

1) Snow in Seattle when you're trying to get to the train station and getting a bit lost sucks.
2) Snowy slush in Portland when you decide to walk to the hotel sucks.
3) Being in Portland when you want to be in Seattle REALLY sucks.

Though I guess not EVERYTHING here sucks. I did get to go to Powell's Books last night, the food has been relatively tasty, and they ALMOST have toasted ravioli here. But fried ravioli with no breading on it is just not the same. *sigh*

And at this point, it's less than 48 hours till I'm back in Seattle. Yes, there is a countdown going.

Not as planned

So when it comes down to it, my entire weekend was completely not as planned. The only thing that survived intact-ish was that I got to have coffee with my friend Jeremy. However, we had to make it "virtual" coffee--he made coffee at his apartment, I made tea at mine, and we chatted for about an hour while we drank our respective beverages. So it's like going out for coffee, without the going out. :)

But the Steampunk Cabaret and I Heart Rummage were both casualties of the snow, so I stayed home, played a bit of Rock Band 2, and pretty much caught up on my crocheting. I still need to finish the baby afghan for my not-born-yet niece or nephew, but I technically have until March to finish that if I want to. If I get it done before Saturday, then the not-born-yet child has another gift to open... which really means my sister and brother-in-law have another gift to open. :)

The good news for the day, however, is that the temperature in Seattle has FINALLY broken 32 degrees, and the snow is beginning to melt. I can see it most apparently on the tree outside my office window (oh, yeah, I made it to the office again. Only one in today.), but I hear people shoveling too, and it's the easy sound of shoveling snow, rather than the scraping sound of shoveling ice.

My trek to work did include a trek though, as my bus got stuck a little under a mile from my office. Of course, me being pretty bad at gauging distances had no idea how far it really was to the office, but I knew how to get there, so I joined the masses of people who were departing buses and walking more blocks than usual to get to their places of employment. I am apparently a trooper and heroic, according to my co-workers. :) I have also declared myself Queen of the Office in their absence. :)

Hurrah!

Well, I successfully made it to and from work today, without much trouble. I did take the quick way down about four steps, but my backpack saved me from much more than a bruised left forearm (and not really a bad bruise, either).

My weekend plans seem to be mostly surviving, though some of them in altered form. I may be having virtual coffee with a friend... as in he has coffee at his apartment and I have tea at mine while we chat online... to substitute for actually going out into the cold cold world. Thus far, my plans for the Steampunk Cabaret remain completely intact... I just need to find clothing that is warm enough and boots that are functional enough. Fashion may not win out this time.

Sunday, though, I Heart Rummage has been canceled, so I'll be recovering from the Steampunk Cabaret and watching it snow and/or sleet. The head of our office sent out an E-mail today suggesting that folks take work home with them today so that if the weather is really as nasty as they are predicting, we can all just work from home on Monday. I like this option. A lot. :)

Aw, man...

Apparently I spoke too soon yesterday. The snowpocalypse has arrived, and it ain't pretty. Luckily, I had already planned to head to UW again today, which turned out to be a MUCH easier commute than getting downtown would have been. There were easily 30 people waiting for my normal downtown bus at 8:30, and only 3 people waiting for the bus to UW.

So I'm hoping the snow stops early enough that the roads can be cleared before tomorrow, as I pretty much have to get to my office to do any more work. I've finished everything I have home with me, except for the answers that are sitting happily in my office. :)

I'm also hoping that they can get everything cleared before it gets super chilly tomorrow, cuz there will then be a lovely crust of ice on top of the snow, which will pretty much destroy all of my weekend plans. And that, my friends, would suck. A lot.

In other news, it looks like it will be warmer in Denver on Christmas Day than in Seattle or St. Louis. *boggles*

There is no snowpocalypse...

There is only Zuul. :)

So I had gotten myself good and ready for there to be HEAPING piles of snow everywhere when I woke up this morning. I peeked out the window at 6 a.m., and saw nothing. I continued peeking out the windows until I had to leave for the library, and still nothing. For about 1 minute after lunch, there was some vaguely sleet-y snow at UW, and then it was done.

Now I know that SOME parts of Seattle got snow, and apparently even a reasonable amount, but I'm still waiting for the impending snowpocalypse. Of course, I don't REALLY want it to happen, as I have plans for tomorrow night that hinge on no snow, and plans on Saturday that hinge on no snow. Oh, and Sunday too. Today was pretty much the only day I was willing to tolerate snow.

Sorry weather, you blew it. No snow for you. :p

SNOW!

Okay, so I've been hearing all these rumblings about the snow storm that's supposed to hit tomorrow. On Monday, one of my co-workers was already planning on working from home that day, rather than coming in to the office. Today I got a message from another co-worker that she's expecting her kids to have a snow day tomorrow, so we will work on our stuff over E-mail if need be. All the while, I'm going "hello, this is Seattle?!"

Then I looked at the weather forecast for tomorrow, and I guess they're not kidding around about this snow. Starting at 5 a.m., it's a 50% chance of snow, and it's supposed to continue to snow all day long. That means the likelihood of it sticking (on top of the ice that still lingers in a few places) is pretty high... and that also means that maybe that idea of working at home is a good one.

Sadly, tho, I'm scheduled to go to UW tomorrow. If I can't get over there, then I can't get over there. But I definitely did not bring enough stuff home with me to work for 8 hours tomorrow... just enough to work for an hour or so before the library at UW opens... *sigh*...

A bit of recap

So I sort of forgot to keep posting last week while in Laguna Niguel. I'd say the sun fried my brain, but I really didn't see that much sun while I was there. The sun was setting around 5 p.m. daily, and we left the Archives around 4:15 or so every day. By the time we drove back to the hotel, it was pretty much beginning to get dark out, and by the time we went to eat, it was always dark.

We did head out to Laguna Beach on Thursday after work, though, to see the sunset and get right up next to the ocean. We all ran and touched the surf after a rather high rush of water forced us to run. If it weren't for not having any good way to get the sand off of my feet when I was done, I would have ditched my shoes and socks and rolled up my capris to play in the water. :) I'm so much like those little kids who like play in the mud or whatever, and then are like "ewww, icky, get it off of me!" :)

Got back Friday and saw my first snowfall of this winter as the cab drove me away from the airport. It didn't start back up again until Saturday night, while I was at my office Christmas party. I kept eyeballing the snow, making sure it wasn't sticking, and even texted Jerome to find out if it was snowing on our side of the lake. He said it wasn't, but by the time Ann and I left, it was snowing heavier at the apartment than it had been in Kirkland!

Woke up Sunday to everything still covered in snow. For those of you who don't live in Seattle, this doesn't happen much here. I was a little concerned because even the parking lot still had snow on it, and the temperatures were staying below freezing. I braved the ice and ickiness though, so I could go meet up with Jeremy for coffee. I insisted that we were WALKING to the coffee shop, however. :)

After that, Jeremy ran his one shot of Army of Darkness rules (though set during the French Revolution), and I literally laughed until my face hurt. We had a particularly wacky cast of characters, and so much geekiness in the room that it probably should have exploded or something. Multi-genre geekiness, in fact. Good times, and I think I'm going to be playing in other one shots with the same crowd. I'm sure this means I'll be persuaded to run eventually, so I've gotta dust off one of the systems I've bought and never touched... leaning heavily towards All Flesh Must Be Eaten, because who doesn't like zombies?

The. End.

*checks the date*

Yeah, that does say April. Why, then, is it snowing intermittently in Port Angeles?! And scheduled to do the same in Seattle tomorrow?! AUGH!

Well, at least Megan came up with a backup plan for tomorrow if it does snow. We'll just go to the aquarium instead of the zoo.

But first, Apocalyptica tonight. And I was hoping I wouldn't need my winter coat... guess we better take some extra cash for the coat check... *grumble*...

Hmm... of randomness...

I either have the potential for tons of stuff to get done this weekend, or no plans at all... the annoying thing is not knowing which way it's going to go. :) I wouldn't mind the latter, because it's been a crazy week at work, but at the same time, I'd rather just get started on a lot of the stuff (which will only be postponed if it's not ready for me this weekend).

Holy crap, it's snowing in downtown Seattle again! First it was pouring (relatively speaking), and now it's snowing. *checks calendar* Yeah, this is just plain weirdo weather.

End of the Work Week Wisdom
"When did Motley Crue become classic rock?"
--"1985" by Bowling for Soup

Yeah, it's just one of those random "ooh, shiny" sort of days for me. I blame lack of sleep. :)

Yay, new music to talk about! Not a new band, but new music nonetheless...

So I have now heard the new Placebo album (due out March 13th!) three times, and I am digging it, big time. I don't know that I really have anything specific to say about it, other than the fact that some of the songs have a really great energy to them, and others are considerably more mellow, but nice nonetheless. I think I may have to look into a band called The Kills, as VV of The Kills sings on one song, and it is good. Michael Stipe allegedly sings on another song, but I'm having a hard time picking out his voice... then again, that may be due to my crappy internal speaker on my work computer. Will have to listen to it again at home tonight. :)

In other news, I'm not grumpy today. J called me in the middle of the afternoon and asked if I wanted to get dinner with him, so we hung out for about an hour last night, and then I watched "Velvet Goldmine" and chilled out for the remainder of the evening.

In other other news, it's snowing big time, which might normally allow for the possibility of sledding. However, as you can't go sledding at night, the snow will probably not last past tomorrow, and this weekend is booked anyway, there will likely be no sledding. Poo. J's sled really wants to go sledding... or maybe I do... ;)
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