ooops.

That doesn't look too bad, does it?  I can make a ride home in that work I think.

Ah home.  Where I'm not having performance reviews moved back so I can worry about it over the holidays, where projects I've spent years working on aren't getting re-jiggered by new bosses b/c that's how they did it at their old job. 

Not to put too much pressure on myself, but I'm starting to hope for big things from an interview on Wednesday.  What is it about UC that I can get through the system but never nail down the job?

Current beer-scale: 9.4

Well shit.

Seemed like a good idea to ride the bike this morning at least.

Hell, it's November in Chicago.  We all knew it couldn't stay nice forever.  But it would have been fun.

Current beer-scale: 8.1 and it's a short week. 

Believe it or not it's still January

First real snow ride this afternoon, going home early to attend an online meeting in relative comfort.  Trudged through it, nothing outrageous.  But enough to have me doubting whether I'll ride tomorrow. 

When the only thought in my head (other than "watch out for that car") is "I really hate doing this in these conditions," there doesn't seem there's a point to making myself do it again.

Current beer-scale: 7.8

See? Spoiled.

Well that sucked. An extra half hour to get home, coated in snow.

Time to drink.

Current beer-scale: 6.6

Ended up being a good day.

This was at noon:

This was at 7 PM when I was going home.

Too dark to really see any difference but that was a solid 7 hours of snow. Good times. Thankfully the train was pretty easy to handle, b/c I got promoted and found out in a surprise late meeting. My first "real" promotion. So now I'm home, drinking a whiskey, and ready to have a good Friday.

Current beer-scale: 8.8

Dig in or dig out

Between the snow that hit the east coast yesterday and the city putting "emergency escape" exits on LSD after the mess of snowpocalypse and the excuse to show clips of cars buried in snow there seems to be a lot of winter scenes on the news lately.

Knock it the fuck off already!

Please let me enjoy the sun that is out and a snow-free late October/early November. It will turn to shit soon enough. Fall back and be glad there are still only leaves on the ground and nothing more.

Current beer-scale: 8.9

It's not fair. If we get 5 more inches of snow tonite I think I'll lose my mind. Thunder & lightning during some hail I can handle, multiple inches of new snow I cannot. The snowiest Feb in 115 years of recorded Chicago weather history? I'd rather not be around for that, thank you.

Via wgn.tv

I can even handle gas hitting $5 a gallon, not that I give a shit. But another week of snow getting packed on un-shoveled sidewalks and alleys and intersections will have me drinking copiously. Dammit, this week started with so much potential. I hate February.

Current beer-scale: 9.3

Dug out, at least a little

Snow days are even more fun as an adult.
Had a chance to sleep in, managed to dig our way out of our snowed-in walkway to take the dog out, had enough food to make it through the day and have awesome steaks for dinner plus drinks--I'll take an adult snow day over a kid's snow day anytime.

That was what the alley behind our place looked like yesterday morning. Snow past my knees but after digging through a four-foot drift in our walkway that seemed like a piece of cake. The dog loved it.

If it weren't for the dog I don't think we would have even left the house at all yesterday. We even took a pretty fantastic nap around 3:30. Sounds like the perfect day to wrap up with some steaks.
I hate this time of year but if I could spend a few more days like that I'd be much happier with February. Today it's back to business, expect for the idiot who left a car abandoned in the middle of our street for the past 36 hours.Yes it's not plowed and the car couldn't go anywhere anyway, but it's not going to get better with a car in the middle of the street either. The snow isn't going to magically disappear, especially when it's below zero now. The alley actually looks better than the street at this point; people realized some ass had left a car out and with everyone shoveling out their garage, it's actually easier to drive up the alley than Greenview. That was how I carried the bike up to Fullerton this morning.

And yeah, I was back on the bike b/c the train sucks balls and I'm not the brightest. It wasn't too bad, except Wells and Division were slushier than I expected and it was damn cold. Still better than the train though.

Current beer-scale: 1.1