Snow Hermit
Dec. 18th, 2008 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournWith the "End of Days" predictions that come with any significant snowfall in Seattle, I brought work home enough to keep me busy for a day or two of Work-At-Home. I stayed at home Wednesday and the snow never came. I had already commuted through icy conditions Tuesday, so I figured I'd just follow through like most of my co-workers anyhow. Today, the predicted snow arrived in force so it's another day at home. I'm glad I went out for lunch yesterday and bought some groceries if for nothing else than to get out of the house for a while. Of course with the snow, most of Redmond is working at home today so the servers are getting hammered. At least it means few people can be sending email that I can't get to :>
Ski lodges are like farmers. They seem to constantly whine about the weather. There was a news story last week about how all the local ski lodges were looking at collapse because the snowpack was miniscule. This winter storm should shut them up for a while. Considering a portion of our power and most of our drinking water comes from snowmelt, it's probably snow we needed at least up in the mountains.
Unfortunately one of the side-effects of the storm is that my garage project is on hold. They were going to install everything this week. As it is now, likely it won't happen until the first week of January. Considering that the lock on my shed seems to be frozen, it's not like I was going to get anything moved into the garage this week anyhow.
Work's been the usual combination of frustration, satisfaction, and financial reward that is my career at Microsoft. I can't really talk in details obviously, but as I come up on my 5th year this summer I need to consider changing jobs at the least. Perhaps right now I'm a bit too comfortable, but mostly I'm just grateful to be solidly employed when the market conditions suck so much for so many.
Ski lodges are like farmers. They seem to constantly whine about the weather. There was a news story last week about how all the local ski lodges were looking at collapse because the snowpack was miniscule. This winter storm should shut them up for a while. Considering a portion of our power and most of our drinking water comes from snowmelt, it's probably snow we needed at least up in the mountains.
Unfortunately one of the side-effects of the storm is that my garage project is on hold. They were going to install everything this week. As it is now, likely it won't happen until the first week of January. Considering that the lock on my shed seems to be frozen, it's not like I was going to get anything moved into the garage this week anyhow.
Work's been the usual combination of frustration, satisfaction, and financial reward that is my career at Microsoft. I can't really talk in details obviously, but as I come up on my 5th year this summer I need to consider changing jobs at the least. Perhaps right now I'm a bit too comfortable, but mostly I'm just grateful to be solidly employed when the market conditions suck so much for so many.
