and so on, and so forth

More exciting winter-related news: yesterday's commute to work took about two hours, due to the first bus being late and then crawling at a snail's pace, and then the second bus also being ridiculously late. I had to stay in the office till 6 p.m. (on a Friday!) just to make up my regular hour count for the week.:/ Forget overtime. As it turns out, it wasn't available anyway, despite what the boss had said earlier. Not that I'm complaining about not having to get up at 5:30 this morning - but my point is, overtime at my workplace is never a guaranteed, reliable thing. It might seem at the beginning of the week that we have enough work for everyone to be able to put in a few extra hours - but then, as the week progresses, it might turn out that the work went faster than expected and we should be done with most of it by Friday afternoon. This has happened many times. In most cases, I was actually relieved at not having to work extra - but now that I could totally use some extra money, I have mixed feelings about it. Oh well. It's beyond my control, anyway. *shrug*

In other news, I went to check on the car and found that the snowpile around the wheels had significantly diminished since Wednesday. I was also a soft, wet, melty pile, because the weather has warmed up considerably. So I kicked at it with my boots for a few minutes, and then I got in the car and was actually able to move it. ( Read more... )