Attention Newfoundland: We have your snow

Please send Alan Doyle to pick it up. Tell him to bring a shovel. 'Cause I mean, damn.

Last night we got a lot less snow than was anticipated--just a few sputtering flurries in Kenmore. It did get quite cold, though, as I observed when I was up until 6am dealing with the project I posted about before. Which, I might add, did not actually get shipped. Marf. Assorted things went wrong and we finally had to decide to back out and try again next week. In theory we are supposed to have a meeting tomorrow morning about what went wrong and how we can fix it for the next try, but I have my doubts that it's actually going to happen.

I slept about five and a half hours and was functional when I got up around 11:30, so I went ahead and came on into work. There were a few sputtering flakes about then, but otherwise everything was clear. And it stayed that way until about 3:30 or so, when solarbird called me on her way home from class to tell me that it was crazy-talk snowing. I was going to go to my dental appointment at 5pm--the same damn appointment I've had to cancel twice before--but wound up calling them instead to warn that the weather was beginning to suck. They thanked me, since the hygienist chick actually had to commute northward too. So I've been punted to next week. Place your bets on whether this appointment will actually hold. ;)

Anyway, on the way to my downtown bus stop we started getting these little icy hail-y bits downtown, and that turned into genuine snow once I got onto the bus and onto the freeway north. It kept up pretty well until we got to the exit into Lake City, at which point it sputtered out and stopped. The traffic continued to suck, though--a good hour and a half from downtown to the first bus stop on Lake City Way. Once I actually got to my bus stop, the flakes were starting up again--not much at the bottom of the hill, but as I came up to the house, stronger.

And now, it's coming down hard. Guess I'm going to give those Yaktrax a try tomorrow, unless the Times calls an Inclement Weather Day. And I will not be surprised if they do exactly that, since it's also supposed to get super cold tonight. All this slush on the roads is going to freeze over, and make tomorrow's commute a thing of joy for all!

risu asked to watch the Courage & Patience & Grit DVD again tonight, which I was quite happy to accommodate (oh darn, however will I manage having to watch my B'ys again?). Perhaps I should just stay home tomorrow and ogle Newfoundlanders.