…unexplained.  And maybe ripped off from somewhere?  I hope not?

Let’s see.  When I got up this morning, I was expecting to discover that I was going to have to go to work.  Our final forecast before I went to bed was that we were going to get between three and six inches of snow overnight, and unless it’s paired with crippling cold or some other external circumstance three to six inches of snow just isn’t enough to close school around here.  I woke up at six, checked my phone, and discovered that not only were we open, but so were the other two big districts in the area.  Generally if one of the “Big Three” closes, it seems to create a domino effect (probably, mind you, entirely imaginary) where the other two quickly follow suit.  I lazed around a bit, looking at Facebook and Twitter, and then randomly went back and looked at the closed list again.

Big District #1 had closed in the five minutes I was web surfing.  And make no mistake: waiting until past 6 AM to close is a late decision.  But… still.  Domino effect?

I find that it doesn’t matter what I say at night, and yesterday I very much did not want school to close.  At 6 am, when I’m in bed and warm?  Close close close close close I don’t wanna go to work.

I gave up at 6:25 and finally jumped in the shower, but the list got a lot longer fast after Big District #1 closed.  #2 and ours never followed suit, though.  I’ve got my eye on Friday now; I’m expecting school tomorrow, but it’s looking like we’ve got yet another wave of subzero temperatures heading our way Thursday night and Friday morning and the cold will close us a lot quicker than the snow will.

Driving to work was fun, too; what looked like three inches in our driveway turned out to be seven or eight (turns out the huge ice dams on either side of the driveway– which, as you can see in the last post are nearly two feet deep now, are seriously screwing with my ability to estimate how much new snowfall we’ve gotten) and getting home involved destroying nearly two feet of built-up plowed ice at the foot of my driveway before my wife got home with her non-4X4 car.  

I still like winter better than summer, but I think I’m ready for spring now.

Two quick notes: if you’re a comic book person and you didn’t buy G. Willow Wilson’s relaunch of Ms. Marvel today, get your ass to a comic store before they close and get one now.  That good.  Also, I think I just figured out what BA 6 is about.