SNOW DAY!

The snow started about 5:30 this morning. It is now 7:45, and we have had more than three inches of heavy, wet snow on top of a quarter inch or so of ice I left the house ten minutes early to go to to work. I drive a four wheel drive pickup with a utility box. It weighs seven thousand pounds. I rarely have trouble getting around, but today I got hemmed in by traffic. I sat at the same traffic light for about fifteen minutes, then turned back into the neighborhood. I was getting lined up on an alternate route when my phone rang. It was the boss.

He slipped on some ice a couple of weeks ago and broke his ankle. He can't drive and he really shouldn't be even walking with crutches. He asked me where I was, and when I told him I was working my way into the shop, he said he couldn't get out. I told him I would come and get him, but he said to just head back home. The weather is awful, and it just isn't worth the risk. The places I need to go to today probably aren't open anyway, so I have been instructed to take the day off!

Cool!