Intergalactic House of Paisley

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from work (my tens of readers will recall I am back on part time duty, and Monday is my day "off"). It was Jon, calling on behalf of the boss, who was already at home. Darrell wanted me to know he wasn't going to try to get in before 10a if the weather was bad in the morning. Jon said he was probably going to ride in with his girlfriend, who has a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

This morning I got up at my usual 6a, and when I went out to get the paper, found that no new precipitation had occurred overnight. Rohanna headed in to work at her usual time (7.30), and by then it had been snowing since the top of the page and the roads and such were lightly covered in powder.

At just before 10a, I left the house, fired up my car, cleared it off (an inch or so of snow at that point) and drove to work. THe roads weren't bad, and largely devoid of other vehicles. When I got to work, I was not at all surprised to find no one else there. I decided to deal with the work left over from Monday, which took about 3 hours. I called Darrell's cell, and got his voicemail. I let him know what the situation was, and left my number so he can let me know if we are not working tomorrow.

The trip home wasn't bad at all, save for one intersection where the city trucks had plowed down one side of the divided cross street, then pivoted gracefully in the intersection to go back the other direction, leaving a large berm of snow across the north-south lanes. The highlight of the trip, however, was when the local "alternative" station (it's part of Entercom, and so about a year behind on the good stuff, when it does manage to find it) played this (can't seem to embed it, alas).

I have now had a bowl of chicken noodle soup (made with our own chicken stock, plus garlic and ancho) and two slices of sourdough bread with butter and Boursin garlic cheese (all ingredients from Costco) and a glass of Arcadia Nut Brown Ale. I think I am about ready to go out and clear the deck (not a euphemism) and stairs. Fortunately, this is more of the dry, light snow we had the last time.