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.
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| 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