Mehhhh. Morning.

Time for back to work. No more unusual days off this month except for my birthday. Have to work out my vacation times for the rest of the year, though. The vacation cap is now at 200 hours. I finished last month with 180 hours, but I'll have used 16 this month and it's quite possible I actually will be down at about 172 hours (because I don't know if, timing being what it was, my vacation day after Christmas was on that paycheck). Probably take off some time in March, at a guess, but still making up my mind.

Anyway, back to work. I'm just thrilled, not by the work, but by the weather. According to the online info, it's 23 degrees here, but the severe weather warning is all for late this afternoon/evening - snow showers possibly turning to freezing rain in the middle of the night. Our high for today isn't forecast to clear freezing, but it looks to be a fairly steady upward trend after that. Of course, the forecast has been wrong most of the time during this series of storms, so we'll see. It'll probably be totally clear today, then hard-freeze tonight and coat everything in ice; or turn balmy this afternoon when it's supposed to start snowing. ;)

I'm ready to go to work, except for needing to grab my lunch, and wishing it were light enough out that I could, you know, see the state of things. Oh, well, time to go take care of the lunch and all.

Well, the "current" weather was mildly wrong....

It wasn't 23, it was 21. And 19 by the time I got to work. Felt colder, with the wind. Thrills. Otherwise, the roads were quite clear. If it does start to snow later as predicted, I'll head home and finish the day from there. As they said "late afternoon," I'm hoping they were off by an hour or two and it waits until we have all gone home anyway.

Lots of email now since I took that day off. A lot of it is people from my office informing the rest of the office that they will not be in due to the nasty road conditions on Friday...the funny thing is that I did not have problems with the roads on Friday, which I had off, and went out to get a prescription filled (involving driving up to Tigard, basically, the same route I would have had to take to the office if I had been working).

Makes me glad I don't live in some of those outlying areas, though.

Yannow, this whole 'forecast' thing is a load of hooey.

Today was...well, you saw my morning's post. It was supposed to get up to 31, then start dropping back to maybe 26ish I think. It didn't come close; when I left work, it was 19 degrees out. Yeahhhhh. It was supposed to snow heavily starting late this afternoon. It still hasn't started. But it snowed, a fine, sifting, sand-like dryish snow, starting at around 9 am.

All. Day. So fine, so very fine, that even though it was visibly snowing, substantially snowing, at all times throughout the day, there was no accumulation to speak of. There were eddies of sand-fine snow swirling everywhere like a dust storm given over to bleach, though.

So cold. The kind of dry cold that sucks the life out of your skin, that's so much worse than if there were any moisture to it, and a good sharp wind, so I'm sure the wind chill was substantially worse. I did not enjoy moving from the building to the car and all.

It is now supposed to snow heavily tonight, and move into freezing rain tomorrow morning. From there it is supposed to get warmer all week.

I have no faith in this. None at all. I will simply wait, see, and act in accordance with what's known. But if it looks at all like they are saying it will, I am working from home tomorrow.

I am home and sheltered and warm and this is all very good. :)