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Although, to be honest, I wasn’t too worried about driving in that weather. I’ve driven in much worse.

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And my coworker who had his gall bladder out…turns out it ruptured on him. So they had no choice but to cut it out right away.

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Happy Tuesday?!?

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Well, I didn't have to get up, get ready in the cold, and drive to work. So I suppose that's good.

On the other hand, the only reason I didn't have to do all that is because the office is closed due to horrible winter weather. There is snow on the ground. Not much, but we don't need a whole lot to F things up around here.

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Plus, yesterday ended up being a much longer day than I had expected. I'm still tired from it all.

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I was at work about 45 minutes longer than usual, finishing up some work that needed to be done by CoB. The drive home wasn't too bad, since traffic was very light. Then I got home and immediately went back out to get some gasoline in the cans for the generator. Just in case.

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I've already been outside with the dog, albeit briefly. According to my phone app, it's 27 degF, but feels like 16. Stupid windchill. Took some pictures for posterity.

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The same phone app says the snow has stopped but is expected to start up again. Meh. So far, I don't think we have even an inch. At this rate, we'll barely have anything within a day or so.

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I was promised 3-5 inches and got way less. I feel cheated.


That's what she said.

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Anyway, I'm not exactly sure if anyone else is even going to be working today. Or what needs to be accomplished. Everything kind of went up in the air with the office closure.

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Well, so far only one other coworker is actually online. I'll give it a bit to see if anyone else pops up.

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In the meantime, I can get myself a second cup of coffee and work on fixing cleaning up the BoM I checked yesterday.

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That BoM check was...unfun.

Typically, I've been able to check a PDF of the Isometric drawings versus the BoM (Bill of Materials). The way we usually do ISOs lets me search them for the text from items on the BOM. That makes it easy.

However, since we're using the ISO style from the Terminals group now, I can't search the PDFs for text. So I have to print them all out and go through them page by page with a highlighter. It takes considerably longer.

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And I wasn't surprised to find mistakes. This particular project has turned into a real clusterf#$k. IT is partly to blame, as the designer's computer keeps having issues (his isn't the first). The other part of blame goes to the merger of our group with the Terminals group, and all the headaches of trying to bring together different ways of doing things.

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Oooh....now there's three people online. Still, only three? Bunch a lazy bums.

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I had forgotten how much I loathed cleaning snow off vehicles. Especially when you no longer have the best tools for the job.

On the plus side, the boy also now knows how much it sucks.

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Then I let him wander off down the street to find the other neighborhood kids. He's pretty sure he saw one of his friends from school wandering down that way.

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He's well bundled, though. Including a base layer of thermal pants. And he put his rubber boots on over his thermal socks.

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Personally, I still don't understand why anyone considers snow something for recreational use. Even to ski. It just makes no sense.

Perhaps it's because I never experienced it growing up. My first real experience with snow wasn't until my very late 20s.

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I've managed to get some stuff done with work. There are enough people online now that we can make a go of accomplishing things.

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Ugh. And now I'm pretty sure I strained something cleaning the snow off the vehicles. Stupid snow. Stupid Winter. Stupid old man body.

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