Well, now that I am home, I figured I’d amaze you with more stories. Or bore you, which is probably closer to the mark. But anyways.

Actually did get my install done today. I asked them to start early. Early. But they wanted to do it at 9am, which is not early. By 9am, most people are at work, already engrossed in their daily routines. I was replacing their Nokia IP firewall with a UTM-1 firewall, it disruptes the whole office, which is why I wanted to do it while there were no users around.

When we left the office at 8:30 to go on-site, it was still snowing. The install took 30 minutes, and we waited an hour after that, just to make sure there were no outstanding issues. When we went back to the office, the snow turned into sleet. By the time I felt like ditching work at 12:30, the sleet turned to rain. So it was a fun drive home. I did loose control once or twice, but nothing dangerous, mostly fishtailing or that kind of stuff.

Of course, I had a driveway to shovel when I got home. So I spent at least an hour doing that. Snow, slush, rain and sleet. Fun. And every year, you read about people having health issues while shoveling (heart attack, exposure, broken limbs), so you need to be careful. When the snow is like this, one shovel could easily weigh 20lbs.  I couldn’t use the snow-blower, either, cause it doesn’t work in those conditions.

Even though my Mustang is under a cover, I still clean it off. I don’t want all that weight building up on it. Hopefully next week it will dry out enough to start the car; there is just no way I drive it in this kind of weather.

This is just another stupid snow storm for this year. So far, every storm has been snow-to-ice, or ice-to-snow. I almost wish for a real nor’easter. Almost. Just to get it over with. At least it is the end of January, Feburary being a short month, and March brings Spring! I promise I’ll show you some nice Spring photos, when the trees start to flower and everything is green.

After shovelling, this is what I feel like. Well, that’s what I look like, but I think the picture captures the emotion.

Now you’ll excuse me while I get out of these wet clothes, take a long hot shower, and get myself a nice cup of hot coffee.

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