Julia has a stupid new trick way to eat (see photo).
On the weather front, it took me about two hours to get home last night; I had two-inch thick chunks of ice that developed on my wiper blades, which made the last half hour or so really exciting. Got stuck in the driveway, but heroic wife Liz helped dig me out. Once safely inside, I shot some photos of the snow around the house; turned out kind of neat but made me wish I had a tripod for some cool long exposure tricks, and also to avoid having to bump up to ISO 1600 to get anything usable. Click on over Liz and I also had some fun rescuing cars that got stuck in the intersection in front of the house. Figure I earned some good karma there.
Luckily my plow guy got our driveway around 5:30 this morning, so I was able to make it into work for my 0700-1600 site monitoring shift on time and reasonably unscathed. The roads were all kinds of awful (still!) but the general lack of traffic really helped.
Valentines Day has been smooth sailing here, with nothing even approaching any real level of drama. (Okay, there was some excitement when we started breaking all kinds of previous record highs, but certainly nothing resembling bad drama.) Sites are up, snappy, rockin’ and rollin’, just doing their thing. It looks like the snow is tapering off, so hopefully the drive should be a lot easier today.
Oh, and it totally sucks that Case Western closed today. They never would have done that back in my day… Even when the roofs were collapsing, we still went to class! (God, do I sound old or what? Dang kids these days!)
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Ahhh I don’t miss that kind of snow.
Also, we had a highschool close here due to flu. The flu!
Granted it’s a private school and about a third of the students were out sick… but still!
Roofs collapsing and STONE GARGOYLES FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!!
Kids these days!
Didn’t Case cancel classes for a day or two in Nov or Dec of 1996? I vaguely remember hearing about how there’d been a huge snowstorm and they’d shut down when I was there doing my campus tours and such.
I know where one of the gargoyles went. I keep hearing Case is still looking for it.
http://aquamindy.livejournal.com/151208.html?thread=262056#t262056
D00d. They closed the Shaker public schools. That only happened once when I was a kid. So, ya know, this storm must be hard core.
Siamese, right? I had a Siamese mix who would pick up kibble with his paws, dump the food in the water, let it get soggy, pick it out of the water with his paws and then flick the water off his paws, flinging the water everywhere. It was charming.
Yep, we have two sister meezers, a bluepoint (with the creative eating habit) and a sealpoint (who insists on being on top of high places, like doors).
They aren’t so big on transferring their food to the water bowl, but they seem to be under the impression that it (the water bowl) is home base for their toys, which they’ll either make catnip tea from, or fish out and leave for us to step on.