Wednesday: Last work day

Ah, the last day of work. It consisted of hurrying up and trying to get stuff finished that I've been ignoring for too long. Good times. Everyone was in a weird mood around 4pm. I don't feel completely comfortable around them yet, but it was fun to watch them horse around.

My missing badge was found today. It turns out that Ben lost it. Phew, I thought my memory was going. He put it in the laptop bag while the car was getting some work done and then forgot about it. Even though together we tried to figure out where it might be and I even mentioned the car place. Oh well. I had needed to get new badges anyway because my status changed.

I'm feeling a bit anxious about traveling tomorrow. This is the longest layover that we have though and the weather looks good, but I'm still nervous. I also don't understand why we need to check in an hour early to a regional airport. Big ones or busy ones, yeah. But I don't think this is either. And what happens if we're late? In champaign the ticket people disappeared...would that happen here? I don't think I've been this nervous about traveling in a while. :(

Yesterday was a work Christmas party. I thought we were going to have way too much food and that I'd have chex mix to bring home, but most of it seemed to disappear by the end of the day. Maybe because second shift came in.

Monday: Program release

Hmm, well the majority of the day involved training and fixing bugs and adding features to my program. While it still has some quirks, it should be pretty useable. Tomorrow I'm going to try and stay away from the programming because I have a lot of other stuff I need to do.

Hmm, the funny thing of the day was when the IT guy took control of my computer to show me how to make a shortcut. I had put it a help ticket because I thought he could put the shortcut on a lot of profiles. Once that was sorted out it didn't matter anymore, but he proceeded to show me how to make a shortcut anyway. *sigh*

Sunday

Well, we didn't get as much snow as predicted. We got about an inch last night which froze with some sleet (that was fun to shovel) and then another inch or two today. It was snowing last I looked, so probably a few more inches tonight...but nothing close to the 12+ that was predicted.

Nothing else really interesting happened today, but I'm tired so I'm going to go read in bed.

Saturday: yay doctors

Well, the biggest news around here is that Ben got an ingrown fingernail which proceeded to get infected. But because of this, we found out that there is now a walk-in clinic in Owego.

We're still expecting a lot of snow tomorrow...

Thursday: Death by snowplow

Well, today was a day governed by snow. I usually get a ride into work on Thursdays, go to a meeting, get a ride into the other work location, go to a meeting, grab the car, and go back to the first site.

Ok, now that the back story is done, we between getting to the first meeting and leaving about 2 inches of snow fell (in 2 hours). Everyone was going really slowly and a ton more was predicted. I decided to just stay at the second location and camp out at a computer there (it's closer to home). Around 1:30 there's an announcement that work isn't canceled as it is supposed to stop at 3. At 2 I finshed some monatonous work and went to Ben's desk to borrow a dollar since my purse was back in the first place. I get to raid his christmas party leftover instead and eat way too much sugar. By 4 a ton of people have left. Ben and I decide to leave. I feel a bit funny about it because I'm kind of baby-sitting to hot orders, but the status was that they weren't going to be done until tomorrow anyway.

We brushed off cars, got wet socks, wondered about some green stuff in the snow under our car, picked up some extra antifreeze and got home behind slow traffic. Our road wasn't plowed yet. Ok, we decided to hurry up and shovel out a patch on the driveway so the car wouldn't get plowed in. (oh, the snow is 6-8 inches now and it is 5pm and hasn't stopped.) We get half a car patch and see a plow. Bother. It turned the other way. phew. We almost have a car sized area shoveled. It turned around. Hurry! Get to the car! Oh no, a plow the size of a large elephant is rapidly coming up the hill. It can't stop or it will lose momentum. Ben just got in the car. Oh, the car started. The plow is almost here. The car takes off, just in front of the plow. Phew. Quickly! Finish the car sized area! Here's the car! It pulls in. The snowplow comes the otherway down the hill. The car is safely in the driveway. Death by snowplow avoided.

Ok, keep shoveling. Maybe we should get a snowblower. Maybe we should have asked for one for Christmas. Well, at least it's good excersize. Amanda gets to the end of the driveway. She decides end of the driveway snow is meant to break people's spirits. Her arms feel funny. Ben's back hurts. If only they could trade, they'd have one good shoveling body. Ben does about 1/4 of the driveway while Amanda does the dumb end of the driveway. Amanda gets most of it done but Ben has to finish it. Its amazing how light the other snow is now. The snow stopped around 6pm. Amanda's back sweat made her cold. She turned on the electric blanket early to help warm her toes.

Amanda apologizes for the person switching in the middle of the talk, but she enjoyed it so that's all that matters.

Wednesday: Carolers

We had some carolers tonight! It was fun. A bit awkward because I was in pajama type pants, but oh well.

I also have to retract my statement about gum drops on gingerbread roofs. It tastes really good.

Oh, there was something else I was going to say but forgot it. Oh well.

I couldn't help myself

and I'm dead and on a ridiculsly long run-back.

Next year at this time we will own 1.49 sq ft / month. That's almost more disappointing that the 1.38.