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| View out the front window at 6:30 AM |
Please pardon the crappy photographs. I took them with my iPhone this morning. As you can see, it did indeed snow in Atlanta last night. We got about 6″ of the stuff, which is the most I’ve seen here since about 2000, when we had a major storm that pretty much shut down Atlanta for a week. As it is, I doubt I’ll be able to get back to the office before Wednesday.
Of course, not being able to go to the office is not a big deal for an intrepid IT guy like me. I had my laptop at home thanks to the fact that I worked remotely last Thursday and Friday, so I just sat on the couch and did my work thing for most of the day. Had a conference call with a client in Texas and nailed down some details for a huge dashboard that I’m working on for him, then spent half of the day trading instant messages with another guy who can’t figure out how to use another dashboard.
Also walked around my neighborhood at lunch and took a few pictures with a real camera.
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| Snowdrifts on the deck |
I had a couple of pork chops for lunch, along with the risotto left over from a week or so ago. No dairy there. For dinner, I made some noodles in a cup. Also found some old hot cocoa mix that seemed like a perfect thing to drink on a cold and snowy evening. Betsy Jones pointed out to me via text message that the cocoa had powdered milk in it.
Dammit. I didn’t know that.
But hey. She’s eating eggs. I consider eggs to be dairy, and I’ve taken them off of my menu for the month. So pbtbtbtbtbtbt…
I felt bad for the birds and squirrels and raccoons and other critters that live in my yard, so threw a few handfuls of birdseed on the snow. At last check, none of the ungrateful bastards had bothered to sample it. I checked on my yard cats, though, and at least one of them was taking advantage of the little dome (actually the top of a litter box) that I put in a corner of the yard as a shelter for them. That’s nice to know. I like having the cats in the yard. Hopefully, they take care of mice and other things that I’d rather not have eating my house.
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| The front yard |
Having not much else to do, I’m already in my bed (it’s 8:00) for the night. I’ll probably watch a movie on Netflix and maybe catch part of the BCS “National Championship” game, but should still be asleep well before my normal bedtime.
Gotta love being snowbound.
TWD