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Tue, 06 Jan 2004
No snow days
There's lots of snow all over the ground, easily 5, possibly 6 inches, with more to come tonight. I haven't seen a snow like this since we left the East Coast almost 9 years ago. That's 2 snows inside of 2 weeks. The neighborhood kids were out of school, and playing around in the snow. It brought back fond memories of snow days when I was a kid.
The problem with working from home, and schooling your kids at home, is that there are no snow days...
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I'm in the same situation - my wife & I moved here from Boston just two years ago - Boston had too much snow! We were told it doesn't really snow here, but now look!
Of course, working from home is all fine and dandy until the power goes out. (Not that it happened, although we did power cycle twice last night -- the CO detectors complained and woke me up over it). But I saw on the news that 80,000 PSE customers didn't have power around Seattle. That's got to suck. I remember my DSL went down one day.. that was a very slow 'work from home day', let me tell you.
Posted by Paul Mclachlan at Wed Jan 7 15:41:04 2004
Of course, working from home is all fine and dandy until the power goes out. (Not that it happened, although we did power cycle twice last night -- the CO detectors complained and woke me up over it). But I saw on the news that 80,000 PSE customers didn't have power around Seattle. That's got to suck. I remember my DSL went down one day.. that was a very slow 'work from home day', let me tell you.
Posted by Paul Mclachlan at Wed Jan 7 15:41:04 2004
Today's Seattle Times has an article on snow criminalization including how schools penalize students for snowball fights: In Snoqualmie Valley School District, where school grounds still had 4 inches of snow yesterday, there is a specific rule against the "picking...
Posted by Trackback from Seedlings & Sprouts at Fri Jan 9 22:15:44 2004
Posted by Trackback from Seedlings & Sprouts at Fri Jan 9 22:15:44 2004
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