Saturday, December 23, 2006

Xmas vacation and blizzard related news

I just love snow - not. Everybody has a blizzard story so here's mine. We can usually get out of the driveway regardless what's happening except this time. Apparently the City of Cheyenne in a fit of whatever actually did the unthinkable and plowed our street. Of course, this resulted in a ridge of snow at the end of the drive about 2 feet tall. Net result was we couldn't get TK out of the drive yesterday. Not to worry as both Jae and I did get to work because the store manager at my work, Shane, came over in his four wheel drive truck and took us both to work. We also both got rides home with coworkers with 4wheel drive vehicles. To correct the problem of the snow at the end of the drive, I called the lumber/hardware store at the end of the street where I work and bought a snow shovel that they actually personally delivered to me at work! How cool is that? Never happen in a place like LA. Anyway, after we got home, Jae and I shoveled out the drive clear into the street and tested to make sure TK would get out. Fortunately, he gets out just fine since Jae had to work today. My project today has been to finish the main drive and later I'll actually work on the sidewalk in the front since the neighbors on either side have cleared their stretches.

In other news, every year my company's Safety department gives out gifts to all employees with a clean safety record for the year. It's pretty to have a reportable accident when you work in AP so we always get the gifts. The way it works is that in November they send out an email with a choice of 5 or 6 gifts and you get to choose which one you want and then it gets delivered just before Xmas. Seems there's always one gift that's the hands favorite every year. Last year we all picked the Foreman Grill and this year it was a RCA 1G MP3 player with expansion slot. Teh awesome! I've already got mine all loaded up with room to spare! Course, I already had the expansion card so instead of 1G I have 2G. It's nice to be appreciated even if only for not screwing up.

Finally, since Google/Gmail has such wonderful ties to Blogspot and all that other fun stuff to work with, I'm going to start cross posting my LJ with my blogspot account. I might eventually switch completely to blogspot but if I do, I'll post the link here. Gotta go do something marginally productive now.

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