And one more thing

Happy New Year.

News from home for a change

For those of you who don't live here, I'll tell you a little bit about home instead of everywhere else. Poor Seattle is getting the shit kicked out of it this winter. When I was away in India we evidently had the wettest month ON RECORD. Not being around for that was just fine, especially as I was able to reap the benefits in the form of snow in the mountains to feed my snowboarding addiction. When I got back we were hammered by a small but nasty little snowstorm, which immediately turned to ice, which immediately caused an involuntary few days vacation from work. Great! Not. A couple weeks after that we were hit by a VERY nasty wind storm, which caused all sorts of problems and left millions of people throughout the state without power, some for upwards of 9 days. My home was only without power for 24 hours max, but my workplace was without power for 6 days. Yeah, there went another 3 days of work. Christmas was a little skimpier this year than I would have liked. :( And then yesterday we got hit by another snow storm that was short but extremely effective. It took me a sodding three and a half hours to get home from work last night (I do NOT want to talk about it) and now the western half of the state is a beautiful ice rink. And I lost another day of work.

I'm still trying to figure out if I'll be able to go back to India, or possibly somewhere else, in late February/early March. But I'm not holding my breath, especially with all of these missed days of work. :(