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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 16, 2010 8:42:31 GMT -5
Back to work today after five lovely days off. The word of the day is: Bugger.
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Post by Sue on Feb 16, 2010 8:50:05 GMT -5
Copying this over from my LJ and putting it under a cut: My fun evening, let me tell you it: So, overnight last night we got a dusting of snow. No biggie, even for us around here really, except for the fact that there was rain underneath that that then froze. So, the streets were bad this morning. I stayed home, then went into work around 1:30pm. The sun was out and had pretty much dried the roads up, even though the temps never got above freezing.
Then it started snowing again. While I was at work. And it just didn't stop. And the snow was melting on the roads, until it suddenly decided to stop melting, and then everything froze. While I was still at work. And no one thought to inform anyone who would be driving that this freezing was actually going on. None of the news stations, no police departments said or did anything. And then there was rush hour traffic.
It normally takes me about 40 minutes to get home, on a good day. Tonight, it took me almost 2 hours. The interstate that I drive on to get home? The second I got off the on ramp and onto the freeway, it was a SOLID SHEET OF ICE. I drove for almost 10 miles before I could get off on an exit that could take me a back way home. 10 MILES OF A SOLID SHEET OF ICE, NO ROAD SALT, NO SNOW CHAINS, SURROUNDED BY IDIOTIC SOUTHERN DRIVERS WHO HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE HOW TO DRIVE ON ICE, IN EVENING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC ON AN INTERSTATE WITH 5 LANES, BUT AT THIS POINT IT WAS JUST ALL ONE BIG LANE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE THE LANE DIVIDERS.
If I went over 25 miles an hour, I started swerving and sliding. It was mass pandemonium. People were crashing into the concrete median, sliding off into ditches, the opposite-bound side of the freeway was backed up bumper-to-bumper for miles, fire trucks and ambulances and cop cars all over the place because of all the wrecks, and still, AND STILL, I had fucking morons tail-gating me and passing me on both sides AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. AND IDIOTS IN FRONT OF ME SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES WHEN THEY WERE ON BRIDGES, WTF, DO YOU WANT TO DIE? BECAUSE I CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT, JSYFK.
I would have been fine with the driving on a SOLID SHEET OF ICE if I had been the only car on the road. It's all the other idiots that scare the bejeezus out of me.
Oh, and local news stations? I'm putting you on notice. Way to fucking warn the public when there is actually something for them to freak out over.
In conclusion: PEOPLE BAD, SNOW PRETTY. What a nightmare! But the moral is: "Ice doesn't cause accidents, people driving cars cause accidents!" ? |
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Post by Pixi on Feb 16, 2010 9:26:10 GMT -5
So I have come to the conclusion that I am never going to not be busy with writing projects. Which is kind of insanely yea!!!!! but on the other hand the part of my brain that is lazy is yelling
"Break! Break! We need a break!"
Still working on my "Waiting Room" script which after zigging and zagging all over the place - seriously the plot took off in wildly unexpected directions, characters kept changing, songs kept changing - whew - is now perking along but NOT finished. I have a new commission for this weekend and tons of stuff I want to do for the website.
So yea but I find I have far less time to play on the internet. I miss all of you and try to get here as much as I can but just wanted to explain why I'm frequently absent.
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Post by Michelle on Feb 16, 2010 10:15:03 GMT -5
Copying this over from my LJ and putting it under a cut: My fun evening, let me tell you it: So, overnight last night we got a dusting of snow. No biggie, even for us around here really, except for the fact that there was rain underneath that that then froze. So, the streets were bad this morning. I stayed home, then went into work around 1:30pm. The sun was out and had pretty much dried the roads up, even though the temps never got above freezing.
Then it started snowing again. While I was at work. And it just didn't stop. And the snow was melting on the roads, until it suddenly decided to stop melting, and then everything froze. While I was still at work. And no one thought to inform anyone who would be driving that this freezing was actually going on. None of the news stations, no police departments said or did anything. And then there was rush hour traffic.
It normally takes me about 40 minutes to get home, on a good day. Tonight, it took me almost 2 hours. The interstate that I drive on to get home? The second I got off the on ramp and onto the freeway, it was a SOLID SHEET OF ICE. I drove for almost 10 miles before I could get off on an exit that could take me a back way home. 10 MILES OF A SOLID SHEET OF ICE, NO ROAD SALT, NO SNOW CHAINS, SURROUNDED BY IDIOTIC SOUTHERN DRIVERS WHO HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE HOW TO DRIVE ON ICE, IN EVENING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC ON AN INTERSTATE WITH 5 LANES, BUT AT THIS POINT IT WAS JUST ALL ONE BIG LANE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE THE LANE DIVIDERS.
If I went over 25 miles an hour, I started swerving and sliding. It was mass pandemonium. People were crashing into the concrete median, sliding off into ditches, the opposite-bound side of the freeway was backed up bumper-to-bumper for miles, fire trucks and ambulances and cop cars all over the place because of all the wrecks, and still, AND STILL, I had fucking morons tail-gating me and passing me on both sides AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. AND IDIOTS IN FRONT OF ME SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES WHEN THEY WERE ON BRIDGES, WTF, DO YOU WANT TO DIE? BECAUSE I CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT, JSYFK.
I would have been fine with the driving on a SOLID SHEET OF ICE if I had been the only car on the road. It's all the other idiots that scare the bejeezus out of me.
Oh, and local news stations? I'm putting you on notice. Way to fucking warn the public when there is actually something for them to freak out over.
In conclusion: PEOPLE BAD, SNOW PRETTY. Good times! Just be careful what you wish for. I had a semi-slippery drive to work today, but nothing that comes close to the hellacious trial you went through. |
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Post by Michelle on Feb 16, 2010 10:15:55 GMT -5
So I have come to the conclusion that I am never going to not be busy with writing projects. Which is kind of insanely yea!!!!! but on the other hand the part of my brain that is lazy is yelling "Break! Break! We need a break!" Still working on my "Waiting Room" script which after zigging and zagging all over the place - seriously the plot took off in wildly unexpected directions, characters kept changing, songs kept changing - whew - is now perking along but NOT finished. I have a new commission for this weekend and tons of stuff I want to do for the website. So yea but I find I have far less time to play on the internet. I miss all of you and try to get here as much as I can but just wanted to explain why I'm frequently absent. Busy is good! I just hope you don't get burned out. I don't know how you come up with so many ideas. Who is your muse? |
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Post by Sara on Feb 16, 2010 10:37:10 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap...
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 16, 2010 10:38:56 GMT -5
Copying this over from my LJ and putting it under a cut: My fun evening, let me tell you it: So, overnight last night we got a dusting of snow. No biggie, even for us around here really, except for the fact that there was rain underneath that that then froze. So, the streets were bad this morning. I stayed home, then went into work around 1:30pm. The sun was out and had pretty much dried the roads up, even though the temps never got above freezing.
Then it started snowing again. While I was at work. And it just didn't stop. And the snow was melting on the roads, until it suddenly decided to stop melting, and then everything froze. While I was still at work. And no one thought to inform anyone who would be driving that this freezing was actually going on. None of the news stations, no police departments said or did anything. And then there was rush hour traffic.
It normally takes me about 40 minutes to get home, on a good day. Tonight, it took me almost 2 hours. The interstate that I drive on to get home? The second I got off the on ramp and onto the freeway, it was a SOLID SHEET OF ICE. I drove for almost 10 miles before I could get off on an exit that could take me a back way home. 10 MILES OF A SOLID SHEET OF ICE, NO ROAD SALT, NO SNOW CHAINS, SURROUNDED BY IDIOTIC SOUTHERN DRIVERS WHO HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE HOW TO DRIVE ON ICE, IN EVENING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC ON AN INTERSTATE WITH 5 LANES, BUT AT THIS POINT IT WAS JUST ALL ONE BIG LANE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE THE LANE DIVIDERS.
If I went over 25 miles an hour, I started swerving and sliding. It was mass pandemonium. People were crashing into the concrete median, sliding off into ditches, the opposite-bound side of the freeway was backed up bumper-to-bumper for miles, fire trucks and ambulances and cop cars all over the place because of all the wrecks, and still, AND STILL, I had fucking morons tail-gating me and passing me on both sides AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. AND IDIOTS IN FRONT OF ME SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES WHEN THEY WERE ON BRIDGES, WTF, DO YOU WANT TO DIE? BECAUSE I CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT, JSYFK.
I would have been fine with the driving on a SOLID SHEET OF ICE if I had been the only car on the road. It's all the other idiots that scare the bejeezus out of me.
Oh, and local news stations? I'm putting you on notice. Way to fucking warn the public when there is actually something for them to freak out over.
In conclusion: PEOPLE BAD, SNOW PRETTY. I hope Gigi kept her cool. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Feb 16, 2010 10:47:53 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap... The best part of waking up... |
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Post by Pixi on Feb 16, 2010 10:47:57 GMT -5
So I have come to the conclusion that I am never going to not be busy with writing projects. Which is kind of insanely yea!!!!! but on the other hand the part of my brain that is lazy is yelling "Break! Break! We need a break!" Still working on my "Waiting Room" script which after zigging and zagging all over the place - seriously the plot took off in wildly unexpected directions, characters kept changing, songs kept changing - whew - is now perking along but NOT finished. I have a new commission for this weekend and tons of stuff I want to do for the website. So yea but I find I have far less time to play on the internet. I miss all of you and try to get here as much as I can but just wanted to explain why I'm frequently absent. Busy is good! I just hope you don't get burned out. I don't know how you come up with so many ideas. Who is your muse? I think I just think like a child. Maybe I never grew up. ;D Of course that wouldn't explain my Dean/Cas obsession . . . . . . |
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Post by Pixi on Feb 16, 2010 10:48:20 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap... Eep! That's no fun. |
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Post by Michelle on Feb 16, 2010 10:48:38 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap... Ouchy. When will human evolve to have an extra mouth down there?  |
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Feb 16, 2010 10:57:46 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap... The best part of waking up...   to Sarah |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 16, 2010 11:15:54 GMT -5
Oh, weird.
I awoke at 6:30 from an elaborate freaky dream of having fallen asleep in the lab bathroom at my clinic- My dream-sleep had been that bone-deep satisfying out-like-a-light kind that I never get otherwise.
I do feel extra rested, though?
Julia, really weird, remembering falling asleep in a dream
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Post by Karen on Feb 16, 2010 11:19:38 GMT -5
Nothing like starting your work week by spilling coffee in your lap... Ouchy. When will human evolve to have an extra mouth down there?  |
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Post by Karen on Feb 16, 2010 11:21:18 GMT -5
Copying this over from my LJ and putting it under a cut: My fun evening, let me tell you it: So, overnight last night we got a dusting of snow. No biggie, even for us around here really, except for the fact that there was rain underneath that that then froze. So, the streets were bad this morning. I stayed home, then went into work around 1:30pm. The sun was out and had pretty much dried the roads up, even though the temps never got above freezing.
Then it started snowing again. While I was at work. And it just didn't stop. And the snow was melting on the roads, until it suddenly decided to stop melting, and then everything froze. While I was still at work. And no one thought to inform anyone who would be driving that this freezing was actually going on. None of the news stations, no police departments said or did anything. And then there was rush hour traffic.
It normally takes me about 40 minutes to get home, on a good day. Tonight, it took me almost 2 hours. The interstate that I drive on to get home? The second I got off the on ramp and onto the freeway, it was a SOLID SHEET OF ICE. I drove for almost 10 miles before I could get off on an exit that could take me a back way home. 10 MILES OF A SOLID SHEET OF ICE, NO ROAD SALT, NO SNOW CHAINS, SURROUNDED BY IDIOTIC SOUTHERN DRIVERS WHO HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE HOW TO DRIVE ON ICE, IN EVENING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC ON AN INTERSTATE WITH 5 LANES, BUT AT THIS POINT IT WAS JUST ALL ONE BIG LANE BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SEE THE LANE DIVIDERS.
If I went over 25 miles an hour, I started swerving and sliding. It was mass pandemonium. People were crashing into the concrete median, sliding off into ditches, the opposite-bound side of the freeway was backed up bumper-to-bumper for miles, fire trucks and ambulances and cop cars all over the place because of all the wrecks, and still, AND STILL, I had fucking morons tail-gating me and passing me on both sides AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. AND IDIOTS IN FRONT OF ME SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES WHEN THEY WERE ON BRIDGES, WTF, DO YOU WANT TO DIE? BECAUSE I CAN HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT, JSYFK.
I would have been fine with the driving on a SOLID SHEET OF ICE if I had been the only car on the road. It's all the other idiots that scare the bejeezus out of me.
Oh, and local news stations? I'm putting you on notice. Way to fucking warn the public when there is actually something for them to freak out over.
In conclusion: PEOPLE BAD, SNOW PRETTY. I hope Gigi kept her cool. ;D {{{Monnie}}} My co-worker retired last summer and moved to Huntsville to escape the harsh winters. Guess he didn't move south enough. |
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