It's been a hot minute since I've posted. Snowpocalypse/Snoverkill ended up creating a Snowcation that lasted an entire week. That's right...schools were closed for the ENTIRE WEEK. That snow dance was potent stuff.
Despite having that time off of work, things were busy around here -- the impending return to work kept me on my toes...bracing myself for the backlog of paperwork that would follow. Things are still crazy at work, but I thought I would check back briefly.
Despite the fact that the snow is melting away nicely (although we are supposed to get a little more tonight), I am going to write about the biggest drawback to snow in D.C. That is the parking situation. Normally, I never have any problem parking in front of my house...it's perfect really. However, when you dump 30" of snow on a city that normally gets a quarter of that in a winter people and snow plows don't know what to do with themselves. Cars and streets can be shoveled out, but at the expense of any other car-less spot. The result is HUGE piles of snow on the side of a street where a car would normally park. Those huge piles then ice over and become solid blocks of ice. Since we only had four cars parked on our side of the street the night of the storms...there were only four parkable spots on our street. SAD TIMES.
Needless to say, I saw many scenes out of Lord of the Flies play out on our block. People putting trash cans in the spaces they meticulously carved out for their cars while they went to get groceries, only to fight with someone when they came back and found their cans tossed onto a pile and another car in that space. I even got yelled at for putting my trash cans out to be collected because someone assumed I was trying to save a spot. It was not pretty for a while. Fortunately for me, I had a nice stockpile of parking karma and always managed to find a space when I needed one. But...umm...I haven't been to the "real" grocery store since before the storm. Thank goodness for our produce delivery! And the convenience store on our corner!
Fascinating, I know.
Anyway, something that is fascinating (to me at least) is this! It's Jamie! Looking kind of bored! On TV!
Okay, so it's C-SPAN which probably doesn't count...but it's fun anyway. He has been working hard on the Toyota recall stuff and has been educating me on all the precautions I should take for my Prius. The good news is that most of it doesn't apply to me since I have an "older" model.
I'll be honest...after watching the first few minutes of that...I'm happy with my job that is chock full of surprises and adventure.
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