Nothing To See Here

I'm up to my ears in work right now. My team is still running with only 1/3 of our regular staffing thanks to illnesses, planned absences, paternity leave, etc.. I've been shuffling through my work, the tasks left by others and a handful of planning tasks for projects coming up in March.

As much as I'd like to report how exciting all of these tasks & projects are, it would all be a lie: this is entirely ugly grunt work, pushing ones & zeroes into various applications to generate reports no one will read but are required to get the real work done later. It's boring, hideous and unglamourous but it needs to be done. If I'm going to get paid, anyway.

On the good side, I got a lot of household paperwork done last night. We've mailed off our membership renewals for the DC Lambda Squares and I've just finished photocopying our membership renewals for CALLERLAB; I'll send the completed forms off with the convention registrations.

Now back to the salt mines...

Nothing To See Here

I'm up to my ears in work right now. My team is still running with only 1/3 of our regular staffing thanks to illnesses, planned absences, paternity leave, etc.. I've been shuffling through my work, the tasks left by others and a handful of planning tasks for projects coming up in March.

As much as I'd like to report how exciting all of these tasks & projects are, it would all be a lie: this is entirely ugly grunt work, pushing ones & zeroes into various applications to generate reports no one will read but are required to get the real work done later. It's boring, hideous and unglamourous but it needs to be done. If I'm going to get paid, anyway.

On the good side, I got a lot of household paperwork done last night. We've mailed off our membership renewals for the DC Lambda Squares and I've just finished photocopying our membership renewals for CALLERLAB; I'll send the completed forms off with the convention registrations.

Now back to the salt mines...

ACDC Photos

I selected the better photos from the set I took at the Advanced & Challenge square dance weekend in DC this past weekend. Click here for the lot!

ACDC Photos

I selected the better photos from the set I took at the Advanced & Challenge square dance weekend in DC this past weekend. Click here for the lot!

Horrid Weather

It was raining a bit during my afternoon commute home. As I pulled up to the house, the rain had become sleet and hail.

Several hours later, I attempted to drive to the nearby Metro station to collect kent4str. As I stepped onto our front step, I discovered they were covered in a quarter inch of very wet ice. This discovery was made by having my feet fly out from beneath me and through the stair handrail, dumping me on my butt while slamming my left arm into the other handrail. Such fun.

I'm OK, but my (remaining) dignity is somewhere in the front yard still. I hope to find it in the morning.

In my second attempt, I tried leaving the house via the basement garage. The driveway had even more ice than the front steps; skating back to the house was a chore. There was no way I was going to attempt driving on this skating rink. With kent4str still waiting at the Metro station, cuyahogarvr and I set out on foot to meet him and escort him home.

The sidewalks were thick with ice but we found the streets weren't too bad thanks to anti-icing chemicals spread by the county earlier in the day. We walked down the middle of the street with only minor slipping.

Needless to say, we didn't go anywhere tonight even though square dancing with John Marshall was originally on the agenda. *sigh*

Horrid Weather

It was raining a bit during my afternoon commute home. As I pulled up to the house, the rain had become sleet and hail.

Several hours later, I attempted to drive to the nearby Metro station to collect kent4str. As I stepped onto our front step, I discovered they were covered in a quarter inch of very wet ice. This discovery was made by having my feet fly out from beneath me and through the stair handrail, dumping me on my butt while slamming my left arm into the other handrail. Such fun.

I'm OK, but my (remaining) dignity is somewhere in the front yard still. I hope to find it in the morning.

In my second attempt, I tried leaving the house via the basement garage. The driveway had even more ice than the front steps; skating back to the house was a chore. There was no way I was going to attempt driving on this skating rink. With kent4str still waiting at the Metro station, cuyahogarvr and I set out on foot to meet him and escort him home.

The sidewalks were thick with ice but we found the streets weren't too bad thanks to anti-icing chemicals spread by the county earlier in the day. We walked down the middle of the street with only minor slipping.

Needless to say, we didn't go anywhere tonight even though square dancing with John Marshall was originally on the agenda. *sigh*