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

Fine, let it snow

There's a winter weather advisory in Chicago for the next twenty-four hours. Bring it on I say.
Actually, I would rather sit this one out but there's no use complaining about it. I hemmed and hawed about not riding today but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Instead I hopped on the bike for one last easy snow-free ride. It was the best way to start the day.

The plan is to have the tank spend the night in the office since I have to stay late tonite and probably won't feel like riding through snow drifts and the first real snow of the year. People are not bright-a few real inches and this turns into Atlanta. No one can drive and everyone freaks out. Hooray!

Current beer-scale: 6.2 and looking forward to some work beers tonite.

That's a lot of box

Picking up baby furniture this weekend turned out to be more of a challenge than expected. We thought everything would come flat-packed and easily fit into the hatchback. The dog stayed home and we made the drive out to the store early on Saturday to pick everything up.

Oops.The crib was flat packed but I think they basically laid everything out and put it in the biggest box possible. And the little dresser we bought is in one piece, surrounded by 3 inches of styrafoam and put into an even bigger box. Fantastic.

Thankfully, the in-laws were home and able to come by with both their cars. They took the caliber home while the wife and I each drove one of theirs to drop the furniture off in the garage. And the dog happily hopped in when we turned right around to drive both cars back and pick ours up. Everybody wins.
Except the tank, who was literally boxed in this morning.

There's still a lot to do-I have no idea how to get this stuff out of the garage, and the trainer bike currently in the nursery will make 4 bikes in the garage with no real way to store them. Good problems to have I suppose.

Current beer-scale: 1.8