![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Local official snow total: 15". (Somewhat more at the airport.)
Chance that aliens have infiltrated my employing institution under cover of bad weather: 80%.
Two snow days in a row: priceless.
And for everything else, there's a shovel. I cleared the balcony yesterday morning during the lull in the sleet/snow changeover and cleared it again this morning, to the bemusement of one of my neighbors. But since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nateprentice reported the collapse of his patio roof and another friend a downed tree in her backyard, I figured it was worth it. I'll be out later today to shake the snow off the bushes again; some of them are bowed right to the ground. Clearing them off yesterday during the storm was fun, in a childlike, look-ma-I'm-covered-with-snow-now! way, but not all that effective. I'm sure the snowplow guy working the parking lot at that point thought I was nuts. (The association sent a plow and an earth mover, which was impressive. We've got some eight- or ten-foot high heaps of packed snow in the corners, which I don't doubt are going to get a lot of use by the neighborhood kids over the next few days. Heck, I might try mountaineering up some of them myself. :-)
Got a little further forward on my brand new story about Ozai banishing Zuko, which is to say I laid out the beginning and the end and discovered a plausibility hitch in the middle, which will need to be thrashed out (perhaps today? C'mon, Muse, work with me here!). Mostly, though, I watched Babylon 5, which I never quite managed to see through when it was on broadcast. I love space opera, especially with Cistercians. I think I must begin acquiring copies of this for my personal library now ...
ETA: Shook snow off the bushes and onto myself, en masse. If I'm going to keep doing this, I think I need to dig out my snowpants from wherever they're stored. At least this time I knew to tie off the tops of my boots.
ETA 2: They're sending us back to work tomorrow. I guess the alien coup has been defeated. Sigh.
Chance that aliens have infiltrated my employing institution under cover of bad weather: 80%.
Two snow days in a row: priceless.
And for everything else, there's a shovel. I cleared the balcony yesterday morning during the lull in the sleet/snow changeover and cleared it again this morning, to the bemusement of one of my neighbors. But since
nateprentice reported the collapse of his patio roof and another friend a downed tree in her backyard, I figured it was worth it. I'll be out later today to shake the snow off the bushes again; some of them are bowed right to the ground. Clearing them off yesterday during the storm was fun, in a childlike, look-ma-I'm-covered-with-snow-now! way, but not all that effective. I'm sure the snowplow guy working the parking lot at that point thought I was nuts. (The association sent a plow and an earth mover, which was impressive. We've got some eight- or ten-foot high heaps of packed snow in the corners, which I don't doubt are going to get a lot of use by the neighborhood kids over the next few days. Heck, I might try mountaineering up some of them myself. :-)Got a little further forward on my brand new story about Ozai banishing Zuko, which is to say I laid out the beginning and the end and discovered a plausibility hitch in the middle, which will need to be thrashed out (perhaps today? C'mon, Muse, work with me here!). Mostly, though, I watched Babylon 5, which I never quite managed to see through when it was on broadcast. I love space opera, especially with Cistercians. I think I must begin acquiring copies of this for my personal library now ...
ETA: Shook snow off the bushes and onto myself, en masse. If I'm going to keep doing this, I think I need to dig out my snowpants from wherever they're stored. At least this time I knew to tie off the tops of my boots.
ETA 2: They're sending us back to work tomorrow. I guess the alien coup has been defeated. Sigh.