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[neadods]

Home & safe. It took a bladder-busting hour and 15 minutes to go 30 miles, and then I had to shovel the 20-yard driveway while there was still light. Going to be a spud in front of the TV for the rest of the evening.

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[lagilman]

*whew* The next five days or so, I'm very glad I work at home...

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you're home, hon.

Reminds me. time to go shovel.

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Wow. Glad you got home safe.

The way they were carrying on at work all day, I expected more than the maybe one inch of snow I found upon stepping out the office door tonight. (Main roads were clear, but wet.) I could understand the people who live an hour's drive away who were worrying, but those who live a few minutes away?

*headshake* Weird.

[lagilman]

Welcome to Virginia, land of "Snow? Eeeep!"

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

I had *hoped* they'd gotten over this reaction in the almost 20 (yipes!) years it's been since I lived here last...since snow has, yea verily, fallen in Virginia a few times over those 20 years.

Silly me.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

When you've completed spudding, have looksee at this; I found it to be at least an hour of solid entertainment at the expense of others:
Query Letters I Love
...only the best and brightest minds could have 'thunk' these ones up.
-=Jeff=-

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

The subway was packed at Metro Center. Literally 5 deep. Roughly 1/2 of the riders were headed up to the Woodley Park stop so they could go to the Marriott Wardman Hotel with its 3-floors, multi-roomed party; the highly sought after Black Tie and Boots (Inaugural) ball held by the Texas Society. Lots of white tie, lots of black tie, lots of ladies (and young women/intern types) in stretch polyester black gowns, (most with spagetti straps). Some wore furs, others with just wraps. They all had heels, (thin spiky heels), except for one who wore sneakers under her ball dress.

FOr some reason I'm remembering Napoleon's Josephine who was fond of going to balls in gowns damped to show her shape (some of tonight's shapes really needed uplift bras and body shapers), and who died from catching a chill by going out on a cold night in a flimsy gown.

There are lots of Texans in town. They're kinda cute -- they are exploring the city via the subway (as they were instructed to take) and lots of Stetsons all over the city. They're all polite too.

[lagilman]

stretch polyester black gowns

To a ball? To a D.C. ball?

These people don't deserve their lives. Let me have that invite, damn it.

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

And today, if you are blond and wear fur, then you're from Texas. Most of them wear Stetsons too.

I think of the 5 full length fur coats swaddling women headed for the Red Tickets area on Freedom Plaza (14th & Penn) in DC, only one of them was a brunette -- the rest were streaked and bottle blondes.

On the other hand -- I have to admit they dress better and with more style than most Washingtonians.

Most of the protesters are shaggy student types. In contracts with last year, only a few were carrying Starbucks.

I'm not going to bore people here with more details -- so I'm heading to my journal (where I haven't posted since October...)