:: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 ::

"They call me Cold Miser..."

Wheeeeee! As if you didn't already know it, winter is finally here. After a relatively mild December, here in beautiful, balmy VA (which, to my understanding, was supposed to part of the South) we are currently under a deluge of snow, sleet, freezing rain, and ice. Nothing like coming out to your car first thing in the morning and spending the next half hour chipping away the icy coating that covers it. Not just a little frost on the windhsield, mind you, but an actual solid sheath of ice completely covering every square inch of your car. And good luck trying to scrape it off with a regular old plastic ice scraper. No, if you left your ice axe behind on K2, or your jackhammer or rotary saw are in the shop, too bad! You got to wait for the defroster to heat up your car enough before you can even try chipping away at it. It's like finding a frozen mammoth in the Arctic, perfectly preserved, and waiting for archaeologists or paleontologists to carefully remove it from its icy tomb. The only saving grace is that with my Jeep's soft top, all the ice on the back can be cracked off with a few well-placed smacks against the fabric. No such luck for the windshield, though...

And one final rant:

Whenever we get weather like this, the meteorologists always say don't go out on the roads unless you have to. Hello? Who just gets to decide on a day-to-day basis whether or not they have to go to work? My company pretty much wants you there regardless of anything short of an asteroid impact, and I suspect that even that would be pushing it. But apparently, some people have the option of just saying, "Nope, too icy. I'm staying home today." Either that, or the weathermen are on crack. All I'm saying is I want a job like that. Work when you want to, don't when you don't. I'll take some of that any day.

Oh, wait. I get it. It's those government employees. Bastards. :)

"...I'm too much."

:: posted by Rob 10:50 PM [+] ::

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