Domestic Geek

It's going to be yucky cold most of next week. Looks like tomorrow is going to be the warmest day of the week. Boooo! I am so not looking forward to this. I absolutely hate being cold. Figures that there is snow in the forecast when I wanted Marcus to help me get the outside lights up next weekend. *sigh* Oh, well.

Wow, we got a little bit of snow yesterday. We got well over a foot here in Aurora. When Marcus came to bed at 4 a.m. Sunday, he told me it was just raining, so I decided to sleep in for another hour. By 5:30, I had 3–4 inches of snow on the car. Power kept blipping out at work. It took me well over an hour to get home on the side streets (between the blinding snow and the totally covered Southbound traffic lights). I was amazed at the amounts of dumbasses out driving without their headlights on and without cleaning the cars off. Cleaning a one foot section so you can see out the windshield is totally unacceptable. Oh, and if you're afraid to drive more than 5 miles per hour, STAY HOME!

When I got home, I rousted Marcus out of bed so that we could hit the grocery store. We had absolutely no food here. He wanted bagels for breakfast, so we head out for Einstein Bros. and they were closed. He was disappointed, but least Marcus was having fun driving around in his truck. Traffic around I-70/Airport/Pena Blvd. was at a standstill. Several semis and busses had slid off the road or jack-knifed and were totally blocking the highways and ramps.

Marcus wanted Starbucks and they were open, but we decided to grab the groceries first. By the time we had finished, though, Starbucks had closed. Marcus was soooooo mad. We went home and he was complaining about needing his Starbucks fix. We decided to take the new vehicle out because Marcus needed gas to get to work in the morning and he wanted to see how it handled in the snow. We figured that while we were out, we'd try another Starbucks. I took some pictures of him and Skippy out in the snow. You can see them here. Of course, by this time, almost everybody had closed up. The shopping center at Abilene/Alameda looked like a ghost town. After he got gas, we went home and Marcus had to brew his own coffee. Poor baby.

I don't know if they closed the place where I work yesterday or not. As usual, I got absolutely no phone calls from anybody. I know there were no school orders this morning because I was watching the school closings last night before I went to sleep and their districts were listed. I still got a small bump of excitement when I saw Platt on the closing list until I realized I don't go there anymore. *sigh* I don't really want to go to work if they were closed yesterday because there won't be anything to make. I can't call until 11, because nobody answers the phones until then. That's another pet peeve I have about that place. Even if the phone rings at 10:58 and all work is done and everybody is standing around picking their noses, you can't answer the phone. Losers. Anyway, it would be really nice if the manager would call and tell me not to come in, but I'm not holding my breath.

I just came in from helping Marcus clean off his vehicle so he could get to work. I cleaned off my own car and shovelled the steps while I was out there. It is already warming up out there and temps are supposed to be in the 70s by Wednesday. There probably won't be much evidence that we even had a storm by then. Ah, Colorado weather—gotta love it!

Ugh, it's cold and gloomy out. It has been for days. The last two days were foggy and snowy. I have to go scrape the car before I can go to work. It's still like 27°F outside. *sigh* It makes me all down when I can't see the sun. I want to go crawl back into bed, but that's what I did yesterday and I was totally unproductive. OK, got to get moving...

Current mood: confused
This has been one weird weather month! First it is cold (expected—it is January, after all).Then we get record-breaking temps around 70ish. Then it is cold again. Yesterday it rains. Today I got to drive to work in wet, heavy, spring-like, typical March snow. It took forever to push that stuff off my car this morning. WTF?

Happy Halloween!

So, as par for the course, the first snowfall in Denver in on Halloween. Big, fat, fluffy, wet flakes are falling out there. Ick. I hate snow. I take that back, I hate snow when I have to drive somewhere, as in work tomorrow morning. I'm really wishing I had made myself get up earlier and get two days done so I wouldn't have to go in. Oh, well.

At least I made myself go out about an hour ago to put gas in the vehicle since I drove home on fumes (being unwilling to stop for gas). I was feeling sick this morning. I think it's because of an allergic reaction I'm having to bites on my ankles that I've had for about a week. They're either from spiders or fleas, not sure which. All I know is, they're bad. I slept most of the afternoon. I woke up when I heard trick-or-treaters knocking on our door about 4:15. I had totally forgot today was Halloween. Marcus had to turn them away--we had no candy this year. I didn't even get pumpkins or decorate at all. Maybe next year I'll be in a position where I can afford things like candy and pumpkins.

I'm working on switching over to Expression Engine this week. I am so sick of comment spam. I wasted an hour trying to log in to my expression engine, only to realize later that it was the wrong installation in the wrong directory. Doh! That's what I get for having so many test installations installed all over the place. I think I've also got 3 different word press installations that I was toying with. Must clean up web server.

I can't wait until Wednesday morning. Then all the election nonsense will be over. At least, I hope it will be over. Please don't let there be a repeat of 2000. I won't be overjoyed if Kerry comes out the winer, but I'd rather have that than the drawn out nonsense that we had last time. I'm also looking forward to not reading politics on people's blogs. I'm just so sick of all the rhetoric. One election is not going to clean up the state of government in this country. It's totally screwed up and out of control. It's going to take a major attitude shift of Americans before anything is going to get fixed.

Dang, the door is open at J.K. Rowling's site, but I can't seem to grab the right key! I can't go to bed until I accomplish this!