Eseme's Den

That is what we are at, up here in Maine. Single digits, your eyes ache after a while. It was -6 yesterday.

On the plus side, that means that the amazing Gelato Fiasco was selling gelato for 38% off (1% per degree below freezing, with a caveat that if it is -68 degrees why will not pay us to eat gelato). We are thinking of going there today.

Gelato Fiasco

I have been super busy with holidays, snow, and birthdays.

We got a foot or so of snow the week before Christmas. It melted a bit. The weekend before Christmas was a 2 day ice storm, Sunday-Monday. The weekend after Christmas we got about 6 inches of new snow (it was about 8-10 where I work, and the drive home December 30th, Sunday night at 9:30 was not fun).

More snow yesterday into today. It is incredibly light and drifts everywhere, because when it snows at -6 there is nearly no moisture in the snow.

There has been much shoveling, and biodegradable kitty litter on the ice. More shoveling today, in half-hour increments, as it is still extremely cold.

I got, among other things, a zany fascinator for my hair, a lovely hand-made mug, and a book on the history of the Lego mini-figure for Christmas. My display of Holiday Lego sets won the cube-decorating contest at work and I got a $100 Wal-Mart gift card. I bought all the cleaning supplies that we use (ALL of them) and a new magnetic whiteboard/cork-board for a message center.

I crocheted 2 small Totoros, 2 tiny Totoros, a chibi Cuthulu, a chibi ninja, and I am at work on a Psyduck pokemon. I also made my niece a sweater and hat, and a hat and scarf for her Raggety Ann doll.

Visiting my sister, her awesome partner, and my niece at Thanksgiving was a truly wonderful vacation. My niece is the most cheerful, happy, and non-fussy baby I have ever met. She is also very friendly, gave me a head-but kiss as soon as she saw me.

Life is cold but good, and busy.

I have a car, as opposed to a snowbank.

It only took 50-55 minutes of shoveling and brushing.

Who needs a Wii Fit when you have lots of snow plus wind?

So tired.

I am thankful for co-workers who call around to all departments when making chocolate chip cookie runs. Mid-afternoon cookies rock.

I am not thankful for snow, however.

Why is it that every time I need to go somewhere, it snows?

I WILL make it to SimCon. There will be fun and LARP and Panther and stuff.

I WILL have my lunch with lissa_dora.

There will be FUN, damnit!

So, before my semi-yearly Christmas post I must make what is the second (and hopefully final) installment in the Eseme Had a Job Interview series. As usual, there will be very little information on the interview itself, as I don't want to jinx that.

Wacky travel hijinks follow.

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It is so depressing driving anywhere. Nothing but branches, everywhere.

The power company has my admiration. Yesterday I called in the branches on the power line going to my house, and a crew was there at 8:00 AM today. This made me happy.

Then I looked around a bit more, and noticed that there is a line down in my backyard. It is one of the smaller lines, not all that noticable. I'm not sure if it was down earlier, or if the guy with a chainsaw in the tree cut down a branch which knocked the line loose from my house. Either way, I called the company again.

They can't turn on power with a line down. Sparks = fire. A frat house up the road caught fire last night from an unattended candle. I love my books. Fire is bad.

So still no idea on when power will be back. Sunday is the current "all fixed" date for the city. Cleanup of branches and damaged trees is done in some places, not others. My area has, no HAD, lots of lovely old trees. The college paper interviewed a town worked who said that they would obviously love to have the area cleaned up in a week, although this worker had heard that outside estimates on cleanup were more like three weeks.

On the plus side, it has warmed up some, and the thermostat said 55 this morning.

Attention Weather Gods:

As we all know, it is not supposed to snow before my birthday.

There appears to have been some sort of clerical error in Buffalo.

Please have one of your minions take care of this unscheduled weather.

Snow may resume next Friday.

Thank you.