Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Fun with Screen Shots

I got up at 5:30 to shovel slush. (We definitely had as much sleet as snow. And I read a wonderful defense of the Washington snow reaction in a Post chat earlier this week...a lovely person from North Dakota, instead of laughing at us, pointed out "It's not cold enough. Sleet, Slush, Ice and refreezing are infinately more dangerous than cold dry snow. The colder it is the less moisture in the snow and the lighter the flakes...add a nice 20MPH wind and the roads clear themselves." )

I made Victor clear his car and parking space, even though he was taking the bus (so we could switch places...he was in the reserved space, and I didn't want to lose my unreserved space when I went to the doctor. My neighbors aren't above poaching a clean parking spot.), I spread salt, and I could very easily get out now. The doctor is only a few miles away, so I'm thinking I'm ok.

The doctor's office called about an hour ago to tell my they're closed. (I don't know how far out the doctor lives, so I don't know if there's a good reason for them to close. I think the Russian receptionist was laughing at us, though.)

Theoretically I could go to work (we never close), but I already submitted my time sheet, and getting that back and changed may be more hassle than it's worth. Plus I do have other plans for today, like getting the living room rearranged to accomodate a tree.

I decided to check the traffic reports, still toying with the go-to-work idea, and this cracked me up:

A plow wedged under the Beltway and 40,000 pounds of cookies. Screw it, I'm stayin' home.

That reminded me. Yesterday I was reading about the dog genome. Fairly recently, washingtonpost.com started listed blogs that link back to the articles, and this made me giggle too...not that I'm usually so Bevis & Butthead-like, I just wondered if the Post people were pleased to see this in their family newspaper web site.

Posted by Nic at December 9, 2005 08:34 AM | TrackBack