Is it bed time yet?
Feb. 4th, 2011 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoDespite two snow days, no backup at work. This is probably because everything else stopped as well. No mail, no colleagues putting things on my desk, almost no inbound e-mail as all the other libraries in the system were also closed much of that time. It did seem peculiar. I can't think when I last had two snow days in a row, but maybe never. Blizzards seem to have a propensity to hit at the beginning or end of weeks rather than in the middle.
Roads were still not ideal. In particular, IL-23 was only a lane and a half wide in several places along the way, with seven feet or so of snow piled on the other half of the northbound lane. This makes travel into a sort of game of "chicken" to see who will yield. I did not care for it.
Leftovers for dinner, which was fine, as we did plenty of cooking while Gary's mom was here. He took her home today and found that neighbors had cleaned her steps for her, though the street was still snow-filled and almost impassable.
Red got scolded for begging at the table during dinner and had to wait in his crate until his own dinner was ready. He wasn't pleased, but after eating he eagerly climbed onto the sofa with me again and fell asleep with his head resting on my lap. This in turn made it difficult for me to move, so I fell asleep too for a while. Woke up with cramps and one foot asleep. The other foot has a big blister from a wrinkle in my sock while I was shoveling snow so I ended up hobbling around like someone much older even than I am.
Last week's Sunday paper had an ad in it for a "free" bottle of Coffee-mate(tm) but you had to go to a web site to get the coupon. The web site, however, said you couldn't claim the coupon until 9 am PST on Friday. OK, I actually remembered this morning and tried. The web site had crashed due to overloading of course. They had posted a message saying to try later. Tried later. It redirected to a Facebook page that stated you must "Like" their page in order to receive a coupon. Right. Obviously they are using the new privacy violating features Facebook has added, the ones that give them your private information if you "like" their page and also post to all your friends walls the fact that you "like" their product. I have already deleted my Facebook account months ago because of this sort of crap. I did not "like" their page. Instead I went back to their web site and sent them an e-mail telling them I do not care for such sleazy tactics.
Roads were still not ideal. In particular, IL-23 was only a lane and a half wide in several places along the way, with seven feet or so of snow piled on the other half of the northbound lane. This makes travel into a sort of game of "chicken" to see who will yield. I did not care for it.
Leftovers for dinner, which was fine, as we did plenty of cooking while Gary's mom was here. He took her home today and found that neighbors had cleaned her steps for her, though the street was still snow-filled and almost impassable.
Red got scolded for begging at the table during dinner and had to wait in his crate until his own dinner was ready. He wasn't pleased, but after eating he eagerly climbed onto the sofa with me again and fell asleep with his head resting on my lap. This in turn made it difficult for me to move, so I fell asleep too for a while. Woke up with cramps and one foot asleep. The other foot has a big blister from a wrinkle in my sock while I was shoveling snow so I ended up hobbling around like someone much older even than I am.
Last week's Sunday paper had an ad in it for a "free" bottle of Coffee-mate(tm) but you had to go to a web site to get the coupon. The web site, however, said you couldn't claim the coupon until 9 am PST on Friday. OK, I actually remembered this morning and tried. The web site had crashed due to overloading of course. They had posted a message saying to try later. Tried later. It redirected to a Facebook page that stated you must "Like" their page in order to receive a coupon. Right. Obviously they are using the new privacy violating features Facebook has added, the ones that give them your private information if you "like" their page and also post to all your friends walls the fact that you "like" their product. I have already deleted my Facebook account months ago because of this sort of crap. I did not "like" their page. Instead I went back to their web site and sent them an e-mail telling them I do not care for such sleazy tactics.
