Mother Nature, I Apologize!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Since this has been a busy day, make sure you start down with "Kool-aid + Cable Modem = F#$% Me!" and work up.
HA! You were hoping for news on the date weren't you? Well guess what, I'm going to keep you waiting in suspense for at least ONE more post :O)
Anyway, yeah, I owe a big apology to Mother Nature. On Friday, I got a little cocky after hearing a report that we would be getting from 3-10 inches on snow Sunday/Monday morning and stated "Yeah, right, we'll probably get 2 inches!" After all, this winter has had an incredibly small amount of snow for us and the predictions have been a good deal off for most other snowfalls. I think Mother Nature heard, and then devised a plan to make me regret those words.
I got up this morning to make the five block trek home from Bright Eyes' place and found this. Yeah, pay attention to slide 7 and also the last one.
So yeah, to Mother Nature and anyone else in the Twin Cities area, I beg your forgiveness!!!
Anyway, I went home and got ready for worked, unburied the car and hopped in at 7 thinking it would give me a nice fat 2 hours to get the 26 miles to work. HA! I slay me! It took me about an hour to make it 4 miles at which point the interstate became a parking lot. And by parking lot I mean, people actually had their cars in park and were standing there talking with each other. I heavily contemplated making a snowman in the middle of the interstate but decided that would end up being a hazard if/when traffic did resume movement. I could have hung out with Bright Eyes again since she tried to go to work but they told her to stay home till it cleared. But NOOOOO I happened to be parked 1/2 mile from the next exit and it took over an hour and a half to get there including the part where my car died because the alternator couldn't keep up with the headlights, heater fan on high, rear window defroster, and radio.
Turns out that not one, but TWO busses and three vehicles had spun out on the same incline/overpass thus blocking the entire three lane chunk of highway. One of the buses was a the double length variety jackknifed in much the same fashion as the one in the last slide. By the time I got home, Bright Eyes had decided to go back to sleep.
So, I attempted to head to work, only to have my car be stuck in my parking space. I dug it out and then it proceeded to get stuck in the street at the end of the driveway. In the midst of trying to extricate my car the second time it managed to ran out of gas. Yeah, go ahead and laugh. If it wouldn't have been blocking the building next door's driveway, I would have just left it and gone back to bed. Because that sounded like SUCH a good option at that point
I eventually did make the drive and it took me 55 minutes after I finally got on the road. Got to work and Idiot Boss said: "Wow, you're in! You could have just used a vacation day." Dude. Oh. The pain I should cause you.
Anyway yeah. A half day it will be and Bright Eyes just called, so the day just got better :O)
Now, the question is how long to wait till I write about the date...?
posted by Chief Slacker @ 5:43 PM,
3 Comments:
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At Mon Mar 13, 10:49:00 PM,
The Nicsperiment said...
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Dude! What kind of place is this "Minnesota"? How and why did humans settle there? You should move to the South...but back to Minnesota from May to November.
Man, I would seriously pay to see a buddy comedy/road trip film starring IB and you. Think of the comic mishaps! IB could design shirts for the trip and a route that avoids gas stations to be "different and more goal oriented". -
At Tue Mar 14, 01:29:00 AM,
Leesa said...
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Sounds like here! I'm so glad I don't have to travel in it anymore :)
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At Wed Mar 15, 04:58:00 PM,
Chief Slacker said...
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nicholas - Might wanna cut out later july/early august from that as well since it's pretty regular to get days of 90+ degrees and 90% humidity. heh. I hope THAT road trip never happens.
Leesa - yeah, not so much fun! I wish i didn't have to travel in it :O(