Weekend Plans Post: The Swing of Things
Welp. School is back in. My friends who are teachers have their left eyes twitching again. We had meetings in which we talked about snowboarding and desserts and after two minutes of that, the scrum master told us to knock it off and talk about work. Okay, fine.
And so we had meetings about meetings and then the meetings and then we had jira tasks and the next thing you know it’s Thursday night.
Seriously, this week has been a blur.
The good news, I guess, is that when a week goes by quickly, you’re at the weekend that much quicker.
The bad news, however, is that it’s cold. It’s cold and it’s snowy. It’s not the fun snow, the snow that you get in the movies… it’s the bad snow. The snow you get in the novels about a widower who is investigating a cold case murder from 20 years ago. So “going out and having a nice little jog” isn’t on the table. “Going out” isn’t really on the table. I mean, I’ll probably have to go to Costco or Safeway or something but if there’s a way that I can figure out to stay in?
We’re staying in, baby. Fuzzies and laundry. And trying to figure out what it is that I do at work again.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Snooze”. Photo taken by Maribou.)
Last year we started bi-monthly lunch and cards with our mom and the tradition continues this Saturday. We’ve been playing a game called Skyjo. It’s mostly luck, with a little skill thrown in, and it’s perfect for kibbitzing.
Church and seeing an old friend on Sunday. Hopefully, the tail end of this stupid cold I came down with after Christmas.Report
Stuck at home for now because of Snowmageddon II – we got maybe 6″ of snow yesterday and today, which is enough to shut everything down. (We do not have a snowplow brigade, most the city does is throw a little sand on the intersections and wish us good luck, so if I don’t need (life-or-death matter) to go out, I don’t.
I got back into town on Wednesday, after getting literally the only Texas Eagle running this week, and making my way through a pre-winter-storm-panic Kroger run to get groceries after having been gone nearly 3 weeks.
So yesterday I put away the Christmas decorations and dealt with the accumulated mail; today I cleaned the house up a bit and did laundry and baked a meatloaf.
I can hear guys in their big pickup trucks trying to navigate the piled up/rutted snow in the street and it doesn’t sound good. It’s supposed to get down to the teens tonight so I guess I stay home tomorrow as well. I have the kitchen sink (poorly insulated north wall of the house) on a slow drip just as a precaution.
It’s warm enough in here and I have food and I have clean sheets on my bed, so I guess that’s really all I need.Report
Welcome home. Sorry the weather sucks. I’m glad you survived the Kroger run… I know that I think it’s excruciating when I have to stand in line behind two people. A Snowmageddon Shopping Trip probably sucks thrice as much.
Good luck this weekend. I hope you got a little something like a cinnamon roll or something equally frivolous to help with Saturday morning.Report
Listening to this one tonight:
This lyric is so dumb but it’s also very much stuck in my head until I die:
Hey, what’s your favorite song
Maybe we could hum alongReport
Cool map of the solar system: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.htmlReport
The snow sucks. Winter is my least favorite time of year by about 1000 miles. There’s just no point in the entire season, not after Christmas and New Years pass. This week was already chaos with my wife and I having to juggle children with remote work through Thursday morning and now a little dusting overnight resulted in my older son’s basketball practice canceled. The justification has gone from roads are bad to ‘parking lots and sidewalks are unsafe’ and my eyes could not roll harder. As a society we have to face up to the fact that people who can’t walk around a little snow and/or ice in a parking lot without killing themselves are beyond our help.
Anyway while I’m stuck inside with a couple of feral animals I’ll be trying to catch some wild card action. Hoping Jayden Daniels went down to TB with some of this ice in his veins.Report