Worked at home again today, thanks to very cold temperatures last night that turned most of the surface streets around metro Atlanta into skating rinks.  I drove to a convenience store to get some coffee this morning, but decided that that distance (about 1 mile total) was enough.

You think I’m kidding about the skating rinks, right?  Check it out:

The day wasn’t half bad, work-wise, though.  I got a new request from my PM asking me to use jQuery to enhance a report that I wrote late last year.  Having never used that set of tools before (though I’ve wanted to), I was a bit leery of the assignment; but an hour or so on Google and 30 minutes of experimenting did the trick.  Client’s happy, PM is happy, and I learned something new today.

One of the trucks in the neighborhood gives testimony about the recent ice storm

It certainly looks like I’ll be home again tomorrow at this point.  With the exception of about an hour today when the mercury pushed up into the mid-30s, it has been bitterly cold (for Atlanta) all day.  Temps tonight are supposed to be in the low-mid 20s, so I don’t see the roads being any better in the morning than they were today.

I heard the other day that there are eleven (11!) sand trucks in the Atlanta metropolitan area.  People wonder why a decent winter storm can knock this city on its butt for a week…

I also woke up with a cold this morning.  Have been sneezing my head off for most of the day and going through kleenex like whatever a good metaphor is for going through kleenex.  Don’t know where that came from, other than maybe the fact that I haven’t been outside for more than 30 minutes in the last three days.

Wish I had more to write about, but my house just isn’t all that interesting.

On the No Dairy January front, for those of you keeping track, I had noodles in a cup for lunch and rice….just freaking rice….for dinner.  Yum.

TWD