This morning the stupid park-and-ride lot was full because the stupid snow from the last two stupid storms is piled all over the place and also because the stupid people who arrived first this morning just parked any old how, taking up extra spaces and making everyone else do the same, so I had to drive to stupid work through this week's stupid storm. Took an hour.

Sigh. If today's storm tops out at 4" the way they're saying, I'm golden. If we hit 8", I'm going to be in trouble. My little Toyota starts to balk at anything over 6". I get more control, driving in bad weather, because it's a standard transmission, but the trade-off is that I don't have the weight of the automatic transmission mechanism helping to weigh the car down. So, I have more control on flat surfaces, but I run into trouble faster on hills.

The way it's coming down out there, I wouldn't be surprised to see us hit 8" or 10", but they swear the storm is going to move out of here this afternoon, so I'll wait and see.

Among the other things I ran across in last weekend's tidying spree was my hat! I have a hat that has a sort of neck scarf attached to it that I bought several years ago but never wore because, well, I don't really need that much protection while I'm driving. I'd forgotten all about it, but I found it last weekend and then I wore it today, because I anticipated having to stand outside waiting for a train and it's lovely and warm. Of course, by the time I got to work, I had Flat Hat Hair, but whatever. It's a hat!

(I heard from Bernie. He's decided there's too much snow and he's not coming in today. Did you ever notice that it's usually the high-dollar people who don't show up in bad weather? I used to notice that a lot, back when I was a secretary. Offices expect their hourly and entry-level employees to show up regardless, but management seemed to be--optional.) (But, to be fair, Bernie lives in Boulder and that's nestled in the foothills. They usually get more snow than Denver. He says they have 8" already and it's still coming down.)

I'm scrabbling together some stuff I can work on from home myself, making sure I'm working here in the office only on things that I can't work on elsewhere.

(Yes, like blogging. What's your point?)