View From the Bushes

So I managed to crawl from my death bed to post in my blog. Okay, it's not nearly that bad. I am sick, but mostly it consists of waking up way too early with head congestion and being groggy from sleep deprivation the rest of the day, plus an old friend of mine was in town yesterday so I went to lunch and dinner with him, which I think is as good an excuse as any for my unforgivably no posting anything yesterday. I still need to post my first xenogenic character, so look forward to that in the next couple of days. I should have already finished it but I had forgotten how busy the holidays can be.

There was one benefit from my sleeping issues. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep because I couldn't breathe. So after trying in vain, I decided to just go to work. It took me 15 minutes to drive to work over roads that were basically clear with only the lightest dusting of snow from the wind. Only a few moments after I got in, the heavens opened and I would estimate that we got six inches of snow between 6 and 7 am. Any other hour of the day and it wouldn't have been that bad, but coming right at the start of rush hour it laid waste to the morning commute.

The hill next to my work had a bus, two trucks, a Volvo, a van and three compact cars off to the side of the road. I mentioned it took 15 minutes for me to get to work. A co-worker who lives only a few blocks from me needed an hour and twenty minutes to get in. My boss who lives 30 or 40 miles to the north decided he was never going to make it and turned around at about the halfway mark and returned home. In any case, Thanksgiving should be fun; maybe I'll break my rule about posting on holidays (and make up for yesterday) and post the details of the cheese plate I put together.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross