January 22, 2005 Snow Day Eve As I type this, the snow has hit about 6 inches outside. When I put the dogs out, they sunk in up to their knees. I expect that when I wake up tomorrow, we'll have to use the sliding glass door to let them out, because all other doors will be snowed in. I'd be upset about this, but it means that I get to take the day away from work (I still have to work if something comes in, but I get to do it from the comfort of the big chair, with a quilt draped over my legs. I can watch Trading Spaces while working on charts. It'll be a blast. Of course, the only thing scheduled is a one-hundred page document, all charts. Not so much fun. But the phone won't constantly be ringing, and I won't have to run back and forth to the printers all the time. The day was mostly dull at work. I think everyone was hunkering down for the big storm. Stephanie and I did a lot of printing and binding work, and a couple of smaller documents came in, but otherwise, it was a pretty mellow day. Dan called me in the morning to tell me that we weren't expected to come in, but we were expected to be available from home. He said, "Make sure you don't say we're closed!!!" I asked what I should say in my e-mail, and we discussed what the content should be, and basically, I said that if it can wait until Monday, that'd be a good idea. Part of the problem is that I seem to be the only one who can effectively work from home. Jessica leaves her laptop at work, and didn't respond when I left a message at her house, asking if she'd drop by today and pick it up in order to work from home. Tamra took her laptop home, but couldn't get the dialup to connect correctly. Stephanie is too new to give a document to from her dorm room, and Mark P., while he took his computer home from the office today, he didn't know if he'd be able to connect it to the broadband connection at his girlfriend's house. So it'll most likely be all me. I'm sure there will be a number of documents that come in. But if I have to "stay late," I'll just take that time off of Monday. There are some benefits to being on salary. I do hope it stops snowing before the end of tomorrow, though, because I have to go in on Monday morning, no matter what. The consultant whose binding job Steph did today had another binding job pending, which is printed, but she didn't get back to me about what the cover should look like. I could take a guess, but because we're doing a perfect bind on it, that'd mean that if it was wrong, I'd have to re-print the whole thing. And if I had to do that, it would mean that I wouldn't get it done before her meeting on Monday. Not my fault (she should have been more clear when she submitted), but still my responsibility. I was going to go to Laurie's after work (I sent everyone home early, and only stuck around so that Tamra could try out her connection from home. Once I hit the road, though, I realized what a slippery, dangerous mess I'd be getting myself into if I waited until later in the night to drive home from her house. Instead, I slipped and slid my way home, getting back to the house about 20 minutes later than I normally would. Most of the time, I'm a pretty good driver in the snow, but tonight I played it cautious and stayed in what I thought was the second-to-right lane, but could have been on the wrong side of the highway, for all I could see. I sacked out on the comfy chair and just vegged in front of the TV all night. Since leftfield.org is down, I didn't think I'd write an entry, but I feel too guilty to go a day without writing now, so I'll just save it and post it when the server comes back up. At any rate, it was a dullish day, except for all the snow. So I'm headed to bed early, for my taxing at-home shift. G'night!