Cold as it’s been around here, my office at work has been miserably hot. This isn’t something the powers that be would actually give a crap about, except that the heat pump that cools my office also cools the main conference room – and heaven forbid it should be hot in there. So the building management finally ordered a new one (heat pump that is) and they were scheduled to put it in yesterday. Since it happens to be located in the ceiling over my office, I was banished to work from home yesterday (broke my heart). The only problem with that is I had to go to the dentist who happens to be about a quarter of a mile from where I work, so I had to do the 40 mile round trip over there anyway. Still beats going to the office, though.

Sadly, the heat pump didn’t arrive in time to get the job started, so they rescheduled for today. So, yeah, I’m working from home once again today. If you asked yourself “if he can work from home for a couple of days for that, why can’t he work from home all the time?” then you’d be asking the same question I ask (other than I don’t refer to myself in the third person) pretty much every day. Especially when the weather really sucks.

As it happens, the weather really sucks (again) today. They were forecasting maybe 3-6″ of snow overnight, and I awoke this morning to what had to be at least a foot of new snow. With the extremely nasty wind, my driveway was filled with a good three feet of snow. So much, in fact, that it took me an hour and a half to plow, just to get my wife off to work this morning. Fortunately, they said the snow would stop this morning. Unfortunately, it’s been snowing all day long. And blowing. Plus, after an early morning high of 11 degrees, it’s now down to about 6 (and falling). And windy.

My four foot high dog containment fence has basically vanished, as have all the trails that the dogs have been using to find a place to take a dump. I was just out with them trying to shovel some new paths. Peggy lasted about 2 minutes out there, and the two boys made it for maybe another 5. And the forecast is for cold, snow, and wind turning colder, snowier, and windier.

I gotta say, I’ve just about had it here. I don’t need spring – I just need it to stay above 20° and quit fucking snowing for a couple of weeks.