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On Saturday, it was 72 degrees F here. By Sunday night, it was 36. And raining. And raining. And raining. By today, we'd had over 9 inches of rain, all the nice COLD "almost enough to freeze" kind of rain. And I'm a Southerner--I *HATE* the cold. I especially hate cold AND wet.
Then this morning, I left for work only to discover I had no power steering. Had to take care of that little problem, got grease all over myself, and got soaking wet. And cold. Did I mention it's cold??
The rain finally stopped around 1 p.m.--because it turned to snow. Three inches so far; that doesn't sound like much to you hardy northerners, but around here it brings things to a standstill. Especially so because the heavy rains meant that crews couldn't pre-treat the roads, so they became a giant slushy ice-skating rink very quickly.
I work for public transit. I do our website and all our social media stuff. That means a snow event puts me into double-time as I try to contact the media, update our website, tweet, change FB statuses, and answer everyone's questions on FB, Twitter and email about the route they're waiting on. About the time I get through everything, our status changes and I have to start all over again. I've been on one of those sites nonstop since 2:30 this afternoon, and I'll likely be monitoring them (as well as our dispatch radio) until about 11:30 tonight. THEN it'll all start again at 4:30 tomorrow morning.
It took me 45 minutes to get home; it normally takes about six. I got stuck twice trying to get up the final hills on my road.
I finally got home--ran inside, made some quick updates to Twitter and FB, then tried to run outside and grab a couple of pictures before it was completely dark. MY D7000 WOULDN'T FOCUS!!!! It had worked fine an hour earlier, but now, NOTHING!! Frustrated, I gave up and came back in (yeah, I could have manually focus, but by then I was in a truly pissy mood). I typed a long rant about it, even mentioning that I'd checked to be sure it hadn't gotten switched to manual focus, when I realized: No. I hadn't. I'd checked the LENS to be sure it was on AF, but not the CAMERA. Sure enough, I'd somehow bumped the switch from AF to M. :blushing: Oops!! At least THAT part ended well.
I was already in a really BAD mood from all the rain, and NO sunshine. Now I'm in a REALLY bad mood...and there is nobody here to cheer me up. So does anyone want to give me a virtual pat on the shoulder? Or maybe FTP me some Jameson's??
I do have half a bottle of rum, so I guess all is not lost. Except I probably shouldn't really drink it while I'm try to tweet and FB and all that cr*p.
Then this morning, I left for work only to discover I had no power steering. Had to take care of that little problem, got grease all over myself, and got soaking wet. And cold. Did I mention it's cold??
The rain finally stopped around 1 p.m.--because it turned to snow. Three inches so far; that doesn't sound like much to you hardy northerners, but around here it brings things to a standstill. Especially so because the heavy rains meant that crews couldn't pre-treat the roads, so they became a giant slushy ice-skating rink very quickly.
I work for public transit. I do our website and all our social media stuff. That means a snow event puts me into double-time as I try to contact the media, update our website, tweet, change FB statuses, and answer everyone's questions on FB, Twitter and email about the route they're waiting on. About the time I get through everything, our status changes and I have to start all over again. I've been on one of those sites nonstop since 2:30 this afternoon, and I'll likely be monitoring them (as well as our dispatch radio) until about 11:30 tonight. THEN it'll all start again at 4:30 tomorrow morning.
It took me 45 minutes to get home; it normally takes about six. I got stuck twice trying to get up the final hills on my road.
I finally got home--ran inside, made some quick updates to Twitter and FB, then tried to run outside and grab a couple of pictures before it was completely dark. MY D7000 WOULDN'T FOCUS!!!! It had worked fine an hour earlier, but now, NOTHING!! Frustrated, I gave up and came back in (yeah, I could have manually focus, but by then I was in a truly pissy mood). I typed a long rant about it, even mentioning that I'd checked to be sure it hadn't gotten switched to manual focus, when I realized: No. I hadn't. I'd checked the LENS to be sure it was on AF, but not the CAMERA. Sure enough, I'd somehow bumped the switch from AF to M. :blushing: Oops!! At least THAT part ended well.
I was already in a really BAD mood from all the rain, and NO sunshine. Now I'm in a REALLY bad mood...and there is nobody here to cheer me up. So does anyone want to give me a virtual pat on the shoulder? Or maybe FTP me some Jameson's??
I do have half a bottle of rum, so I guess all is not lost. Except I probably shouldn't really drink it while I'm try to tweet and FB and all that cr*p.
