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Enough Snow For A Lifetime

Snowed again yesterday. Fortunately, it had the decency to wait until I’d run all of my errands.

Snowed In, By Nature

Let me just say that I absolutely love snow.

It looks pretty and replenishes the water table.

It reminds me of Christmastime and makes me want to turn the Christmas music on full tilt.

It makes me glad I don’t have to go out in it unless I want to.

For years, decades even, I had to go out in the snow whether it made any damned sense or not.

Trudging slowly, sometimes dangerously, to a job so that I could spend all day stressing about the horrific conditions I’d face on the way home was one of the things that made being a programmer absolutely intolerable.

For one thing, it’s work that could be done offsite just as easily.

For another thing, it wasn’t life or death. Banking hours in the summer when conditions are perfect and the sun stays up extra late would have been preferable to keeping nose to the grindstone all week, every week regardless of the prevailing conditions.

It was fucking stupid and it could totally have waited.

I’m still waiting for the true telecommuter gig to hit my inbox.

Good Luck

We’re supposed to have flying cars by now. Unfortunately, we simply can’t seem to get by without our programmers slogging into the office in all sorts of dreadful conditions just so we can have status meetings and managerial eyes-on supervision.

Idiots.

I’ll take my chances in other fields. I’ve had enough of going out against all semblance of good judgment.

 Consider me snowed in. 

Cat vs Cucumber

We’ve got three cats and they are definitely odd creatures. I haven’t tried surprising them with a cucumber or a zucchini yet, but I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to see them jump away in terror.

Well, maybe not Lysander. He’d probably just try to eat it.

Mercurial Minefield

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ~Christopher Morley

I’m both amused and amazed at some of the directions my current Sentinels story is taking. Captain Freedom has managed to severely irk both the new recruit and the female founding member of his team. Funny thing is, he couldn’t possibly be a nicer guy. He just wants to help.

I can’t wait to get pencil to paper in order to see how the veteran super-soldier gets himself out of the soup with his irate teammates.

Keeping it short today so I can tend to other matters and get that pencil lead flowing. Be safe and stay warm. 😊