Oh DEAR.

The forecast has gotten warmer for this week.

This is not a good thing. Not, not, NOT.

Today is 29/18. Tomorrow is...37/31 with rain/snow. Thursday is 33/14 with rain/snow. You see the problem, I hope. Rain at 33 degrees is ice at 14. We are so doomed. Friday is 28/22 currently, with a few snow showers. Saturday is 34/27. Of course, this could all change again. But if it doesn't...the roads are going to be ugly through the weekend, at least.

Ohhh boy. Glad I stocked up. Hope the power stays on. (Our heat is natural gas, but of course the actual triggering mechanism to turn it on and the heat pump that comes on before the furnace are both electric, so effectively, we have no heat without power.)

Of course, the very tentative 10-day forecast (which is about as reliable as throwing darts, I suspect) shows Christmas as the first day on which we aren't below freezing for the high or low. But we are getting winter weather, just not for Christmas.

Writer's Block: Quarantine Etiquette

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It depends on the type of "sick." My standard allergies, for example, are annoying but neither contagious nor likely to prevent getting my work done; I go to work with those. But if I have something that renders me unable to think well, exhausted to the point that I need rest, or contagious, I stay home if I can. If I can't stay home, if there's a task too critical, I often will go into work, snag my laptop and notes, and leave again to work from home. If it's utterly critical I work, it's very rarely critical that I do so in the office, and definitely not worth giving my coworkers something nasty.